Here is one of my final images that I am presenting, I really like how this photo turned out with all the editing as its a really bright and colourful photo as well as its a broken down greenhouse which is a topic of Anthropocene, it slightly represents what happened after the storm and how it has effected the world in general, the storm was a natural disaster created by the world, it was also created by us humans as we keep polluting the world and we aren’t now living with the consequences.
Here I put some of best photos from my Anthropocene photoshoots and made them big, so that stand out. I really like the green house photo as it helps to picture how green houses are left, unused and abandoned. The picture of the green house I took, looks like its been taken care off almost as if there are still people using it.I got a picture of two different green houses, one was the inside of one while the other was the outside and it was visible to see that.
I really like these photos put together as the are quite similar, however you can clearly tell they are different, I really like how I put the photos into black and white. I presented my best photos on a virtual gallery, I really like the texture of these photo as they look more rough and sharpened. This makes the photo have an older look and effect.
This photoshoot was successful and helped me view the world in different ways and why we should save out planet, to be able to get the images to be clear I edited the photos in photoshop, I was able to level the photos with the lighting and crop them to make sure nothing in the background of the photo will distract the eyes of the viewer. Most of the photos had quite a bright lighting so it wasn’t needed to add anymore lighting however I did also put (ctrl m) to adjust the curves in the photo.
Here I went round st Clements and Grouville to take some photos of deserted places and bunkers to see how the world have evolved since then. I had found a farm that look almost as if no one went there anymore with loads of unused things scattered around the place. I also found rocks that have been places there years ago still standing still and haven’t been affect by humans yet. This photoshoot is to get the idea across that even if the world is dying not everything in the world is getting effected, although most animals are getting affected some of the materials of there world are still around and need to be protected.
Most of the photos I’ve taken look very mysterious. Mainly because they aren’t in the open and these areas are mainly hidden, they aren’t in the central of town and therefore don get effected by humans destroying anything. Although some of these areas have been effected by the storm, for example some of these greenhouses have been knocked down . This almost makes the photo look very old and makes the green house look like its been through some rough times. The fact that there are trees and bushes outgrowing over it make it look like its been there for a while.
This photoshoot was quite successful as I managed to get photos of different areas of jersey and see what bits have been affected by the storm or just globalisation in general. I’ve turned the stones picture in black and white to show how old these stones are and what they can represent, the black and white effect creates an older effect to the photo as the rocks are quite old and don’t necessarily look old and ancient therefore the black and whit effect helps to see the value in the rocks. The lighting on the rocks are really bright so I had to edit them in photoshop to make the lighting darker. This helped to see the photo better and make the whole picture look more clear to the eye. I also feel that the black and white makes the photo look better, it looks more modern but also takes away the distraction if the colours.
I really like how these photos are different from my other photos as there aren’t any people see in this photoshoot as the photos are hidden away for people and not many people will come to this place unless they live close by or they work around there. As this place hasn’t got many people walking by there isn’t much litter scattered around the area. This helps to make the photos look cleaned up and completely changes the perspective of the photo.
Michael Marten was born in London and fell in love with photography as a teenage boy which then lead to him being involved with photography ever since. His first job was caption writer at the Camera Press photo agency. In 1973 he was one of a group who published ‘An Index of Possibilities’ whichexplores the secret world of sound in everyday objects. Using found sounds, homemade constructions, and cheap toys.
Marten’s interest in photography went towards natural changings of the earth and how the push and pull of tides create very different landscapes even though they are in the same place. He usually took the photos at about 6 or 18 hours apart. He said
“I am interested in showing how landscape changes over time through natural processes and cycles. The camera that observes low and high tide side by side enables us to observe simultaneously two moments in time, two states of nature”
He took a liking to this type of photography since the recent landscape photography has a big focus on subjects like urbanisation, globalisation, pollution and he wanted to steer the focus in another direction. His work links to Anthropocene to show that is human impacts carry on the way they are then there will be great impact to naturally occurring things. The tide floods in and quickly recedes again, but rising sea levels will flood our shores and not recede for thousands or millions of years. Many of the views in these pictures may have disappeared in 100 years’ time.
This is one example of Marten’s images which depicts a beach pier with the tide up and the tide out. I think images like this are able to give people the realisation of how high sea levels can rise to as in the left photo the seaweed on the side of the pier demonstrates the average level the sea rises to and in comparison to the person standing on the beach you can imagine the depth of the water being very deep.
Marten has done well to stay in a very similar position and been carful not to change the angle of both shoots. as well as this, the weather hasn’t changed and it still provides a grey sky. his images may come across as quite creepy to the viewer to see the massive body of seas cover so much land and how it will eventually keep rising.
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Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre
Marchand and Meffre are two French photographers who both have interests in contemporary ruins which brought them together. They began their interests in 2002, exploring Parisian urban remains before their interest took them to Detroit. This resulted in their work The Ruins of Detroit (Steidl, 2010). They currently live and work in Paris. They began having focus on theatres. walking past them and noticing the state they were in they photographed the ruins and documented different abandoned movie theatres in America. In downtown Detroit, the streets are lined with abandoned hotels and swimming pools, ruined movie houses and schools, all evidence of the city’s decline. Both photographers successfully capture what remains of a once-great city – and hint at the wider story of post-industrial America.
This photo stood out to me as a lot of their photos focus on the inside of buildings whereas this one is simply the outside. I think its a good representation as it shows that not just the inside of buildings that became abandoned, also the outside, showing how the city itself had a massive decline. I like the angle the photographers have taken this from as it almost creates a contrast by it being directly opposite the water. the building can bring across a destructive and almost creepy feeling towards the viewer whereas compared to the sea it more represents peace and tranquillity. This could also allow the viewer to think about how they think the building would of looked, being near the sea could interpret a very posh/expensive looking building that may have once been very popular. The colours in the photo are interesting as they create another contrast. The building is full of various grey colours with the addition of the black showing the emptiness inside the building. in contrast, the sea is bright blue and the sun is making the whole side of the image feel a lot brighter.
The photographs below present some of my ideas about the broken and destroyed trees. I think that especially in the first photograph the element of adding something that’s man made and the something being put together/intact whereas the background divides that as the tree branches are all around and the tree is not
