I made a virtual gallery for each theme I have explored within the Anthropocene:

INDUSTRIALISATION:

OVERPOPULATION & URBANISATION:

(AI DEPICTIONS)

CONSTRUCTION:

ST SAVIOURS HOSPITAL:

DERELICT GREENHOUSES:

WATER POLLUTION:

The images I’ve selected are the ones I am using for my final prints as I feel that these are the most successful from my five photoshoots.

EVALUATION & CRITIQUE:

Overall, I think that I explored the theme of landscape in a thorough way however I think I was able to really develop and get creative within Anthropocene as I could experiment and investigate different environmental issues within it. I found that my research on the Anthropocene for context really helped me explore different factors contributing to climate change, especially using the work of George Marazakis and Edward Burtynsky to aid my understanding. I feel that my final images that I have produced not only apply to the Anthropocene in a detailed way but I think that they share awareness of issues within the environment that are ignored and looked upon nonchalantly. I chose to keep these images in colour as I find that it depicts these issues in a more realistic and relevant way, making each image tell a story and create a nice composition. My intentions for each photoshoot were successfully shown and correlate with my artist references; my depictions of derelict greenhouses inspired by George Marazakis alongside industrialisation inspired by Bernd and Hilla Becher as well as Joe Deal. Whilst I enjoyed taking images of different aspects of the landscape, I like the way I have been able to use plastic to create an illusion of waves for water pollution as I could represent this in a way that I came up with entirely on my own and could freely experiment with. The next steps I would take if I repeated this theme would be to use black and white tones in some of my images to give my work some variance. As well as this, I would have liked my idea of recreating George Marazakis image of the greenhouse with artificial lighting next to natural lighting to have worked. I attempted to set up a photoshoot in this way using coloured gels however I couldn’t find a suitable location for this around the island so it couldn’t work.