Images by Lewis Baltz – Inspiration for photoshoot

Photoshoot Plan

For this photoshoot, I am going to go to for a walk around St Brelade, mainly the area near the old Les Quennevais School, and try to find similar scenes to the ones featured in Baltz’s photographs. I am then going to make these images monochrome and edit them as little as possible in order to keep them natural and present the landscapes truthfully.

Contact Sheet

Image Selection

My Images in B&W

I edited these images in Lightroom Classic by making them B&W then increasing the contrast. For most of these images I also slightly cropped and rotated them.

Virtual Gallery/Evaluation

I believe that my images share some similarities but also have differences towards Lewis Baltz’s work. For example, they are similar as they display many straight edges and man-made structures such as doorways and walls. Some of these photos also depict man-made structures with plants and natural elements, alike Lewis Baltz. On the other hand, I think my photographs are different to Lewis Baltz’s in terms of locations as it wasn’t very easy for me to find many warehouses or buildings like what he depicts as Jersey is quite different to America.

George Marazakis, born in 1976 in Creta Island, Greece, studied Mechanical Engineering and currently works for the Greek Ministry of Justice. However, he photographs the Anthropocene scene in rural, vacant areas that have been abandoned by society in his ‘A Cure for Anthropocene’ project. These areas are lost and forgotten about and become consumed, because of society extremely quickly progressing through time, that the area is not needed, although it still leaves a mark and impact on the environment around it, restricting growth and areas for ecosystems to thrive in.

His photographs show the pace at which the environment is damaged and how much damage is actually happening. He portrays the side of nature which is not right in from of us like pollution which is everywhere, his photos are in more excluded areas showing the degradation of our planet.

“If human civilization is in fact a disease, then it can also be the cure. But if the cure to the planet’s disease isn’t self-restriction, it will result in self-extermination. After all, the salvation of the planet is a different concept than the salvation of humanity.” – Marazakis