Background research:

Bangladesh faced and still faces serious challenges related to refugees, mostly the Rohingya crisis. Since their arrival in the early 1990s and then again during periods of persecution in Myanmar in the 2012, 2016, and 2017, Rohingya refugees have progressively hunted safety in Bangladesh. The invasion has had severe demographic, socio-economic and environmental impacts.

In July 31st, in the year of 2017, Bangladesh officially secured 33,542 Rohingya refugees in cramped camps like Kutupalong and Nayapara, whilst over a million lived outside these factions. Despite numerous international efforts to banish the crisis, the situation remained and still remains complex.

The Rohingya, is a Muslim ethnic group with a unique language, have lived in Myanmar for many centuries but in 1982 were citizenship, labelling them stateless. This has refutation fuelled their persecution which led to forced migration.

The connection between Bangladesh and Myanmar is fatigued due to the Rohingya crisis, which has been dragged on since the late 1970s. Myanmar’s military government has labeled Rohingyas as illegal immigrants causing in the promption of violence and displacement. The military has operated many attacks against the Rohingya since 1948, accelerating the widespread of human rights abuses.

Visual examples:

Response:

The exhibition trail was all over St Helier where it showed a various of informative images. The images had a clear and serious message and it made me feel really upset that these innocent people are living these harsh, underserved lives. The images shows me this different perspective towards the whole situation and my attitude towards it has definitively changed from the first time I heard about it, especially with how informative it is. The format of the images show the organisation that sponsors the Rohingya people

Photoshoot Plan

My plan for this photoshoot is to go on a trip to St Malo and observe and photograph people in attempt to get images which present the decisive moment, inspired by Henri Cartier Bresson.

Contact Sheet/Image Selection

Contact Sheet

Image Selection

I started off selecting my images by colour labelling the ones yellow which I think have good potential.

Selecting Best Images

I then looked through the images I selected and selected the best ones.

Editing of Images

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AI edited image

For this AI edit I decided to select all the area of land surrounding the big ship and used a prompt of “the ocean” and created the land into the ocean.

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For this image I decided to use the prompt “a pond with ducks” to create a decisive moment of ducks swimming and the ladies enjoying their lunch while one admires the ducks.

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For this image to create a decisive moment I decided to use the prompt “flock of birds flying” into the original image to form a plain image into one of a decisive moment.

Landscape Crop

Portrait Crop

Panoramic Crop

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Square Crop

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Circle crop

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Pothole crop

Polygon Crop

Although I didn’t take photos in St.Malo, I have used old photos of the ‘streets’ of Jersey to experiment.

These are my three favorites –

There are many different ways to crop images such as a photo, landscape, portatif and many different shapes. This style of photograghy is interesting and can outline a point in the photo that you are trying to go for.

The discovery of background elements you didn’t realize were there. Issues with the framing or composition. To better focus on your subject, such as this..

Here is some of my own photos taken in St-Malo cropped and changed into different angles and shapes.

Here’s a few before and afters.

Here it is as a circle, before and after.

Here its done with loads of black and white colour/filter.

Here is a double imagine and a triangle image.

I did this on photoshop.

I just changed the colour of the background to black and white and moved the picture onto this image to get affect of us looking down on the people as we are ‘bigger’ which gives a cool illusion and affect onto the St-Malo project.

First I started with this image and used the quick selection tool to select everything but the person in the foreground. I than layered via copy to allow me to use the motion blur filter to make the whole background blurry. I then changed both layers to be black and white as I found it made the image look better and more meaningful. This is my final image;

I think this image works really well with the motion blur however, the person in the foreground doesn’t stand out as much as I anticipated so I am going to experiment, using the same technique, with other photographs I have taken.