St Malo

I went t St Malo for the 14th of July which is a special holiday in France, Bastille Day, national holiday in France and its overseas departments and territories, marking the anniversary of the fall on July 14, 1789, of the Bastille, in Paris. They celebrate with music, food and fire works and as I was in France during this time I thought it would be cool to add the experience to my work as I has previously been to St Malo for a school trip where we took some candid images of the French and tried to see how different there cultures are from Jersey. These photos are very different than the ones I captured on the school trip as I was observing people in general whereas when I went in July I was observing the culture more. I did try to get some candid images. In St Malo there are always people in the middle of the streets and they tend to do shows, play music or sing to entertain people but also to get some money, they tend to hold some meaningful stories as to why they are on the streets and why they need money. This helps to make St Malo very festive as there is always music playing, it’s really lively. The shops and restaurants are open much later than in jersey and it helps to give a different perspective. Of course all the extra images I took we from inside the walls which is represented as a small community whereas France in general is very big and isn’t like this. As it was summer when I went to France therefore, the weather was nice and there were aesthetic sunsets I was able to capture. I also decided to include the pictures of the fireworks as it can be quite hard to capture good quality fireworks. Some of them turned out quite good and though it would help people get the picture of how important the 14 July is.

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