In terms of the compare and contrast, I believe that my 1st image has an evident inspiration through Mandy Baker, the photographer. I think that my image shows that complexity that Mandy bakers work has and this is definite through the use of cropping litter and placing the litter in precise formation to create something etc…Earth. I am also able to prove my influence of Mandy Baker in Image 1 by having bright, eye opening colours. However my work is quite different to Mandy Bakers. First of all, my litter is AI generated and her litter was litter that she physically found. I also outlined the colours on the plastic earth to give it more depth and obviousness of what I was trying to show, which was an earth created with plastic to bring awareness of what earth might look like if we don’t change. Finally, a difference my image has to Mandy Bakers work is the fact that I have a black and white background instead of just black which shows an urban landscape. My intention was to show what earth was gonna become and the reason behind it, (industrial related things).

For my image 2, it shows a series of pictures which one of them including loads of monkeys, the other with no monkeys, and the last one having one monkey. This trio was to show what captivity might look like in the future and what it looked like before. The picture with no monkeys, shows the past where captivity of animals wasn’t a thing and it was a time where animals thrived in their natural habitat, then the image with one monkey shows the present, which is where humans are stripping animals from their life and family for solely entertainment purposes. Lastly the picture with loads of AI generated monkeys, shows what the future will look like, humans will not get enough of captivating animals and will create crowded enclosures. These images are meant to bring consciousness towards animals who are being forced out of their home. This image is heavily governed my Zed Nelsons work especially in his work “The Anthropocene illusion’, where it shows images of animals held in captivity where their enclosure is painted or manipulated by humans to make them ‘feel at home’. I liked how he captured the animals in captivity and his message. My work is obviously themed by his work because not only do I captivate animals confined, I also show that exploited background created by humans . However my work is different because instead of leaving the picture as it was originally taken which was the single monkey in the artificial habitat, I created a startling reality of what humans will do to poor, innocent animals.

Lastly, Image 3 creativity was mostly mine. I took pictures of different places in Maderia island, some where it was overly populated, unpopulated, slightly populated and populated. This was to show how different places can be more developed or not as developed and populated. These set of images were made to also bring knowledge of that fact that the pictures that are showing a slightly populated or unpopulated environment will become the populated or overly populated over time, which should be alarming. However these images all have one thing in common when it comes to Nelsons and Bakers work, they all explore Anthropocene and bring awareness directed at the wrong that we are doing.