For my first photoshoot, I am going to take pictures of very built up areas (urban landscapes) in London like Oxford Street etc. I am going to focus on the vast amount of buildings seen in these places and how overpopulated it is. I will also try and capture large groups of people, showing how mankind has taken over Earth and expanded so much that it is ripping Earth of its natural landscapes and replacing it with buildings and homes in order to accommodate with the demands of the increasing population. With my images of different buildings, I am planning to recreate the work of Giacomo Costa and stack these together. This will highlight the idea of how mankind has polluted the Earth with buildings instead of embracing the natural beauty we already have.
For my second photoshoot, I am going to take images of Jersey’s natural landscape and its beauty without any pollution. By doing this, it will hopefully inspire the people who look at my work to try and make a difference on the environment so that we stop destroying the Earth with litter and instead bring out these potentially breath taking landscapes that are hidden by human kinds disregard for the environment. I will then take images of pollution eg litter on the beach and compare the two so people can see the contrast between what the world could be and what it is right now. I will also compare my images of Jersey’s natural beauty and London’s built up, overpopulated area to highlight the idea of what all those buildings are covering up. This may inspire people to leave the very minimal natural landscapes we have left as they are.
For my third photoshoot, I am going to take photographs of different zoo animals in their artificial habitats. This was inspired by Zed Nelson who does something similar to this. I am going to try and take pictures of animals who are in enclosures with unnatural things eg a painted wall of nature or a spotlight instead of natural light as they would have in the wild. This highlights to me how ironic we are as a society as we recreate these natural landscapes, that we could already have, if we didn’t destroy them in order to expand.