Final Design Ideas:

I have decided to create 3 Final storyboards for my trip to St Malo. I created 3 Different types of picture story each representing a different story behind them.

Picture Story 1:

Here is my first picture story it is named “Les Gens De St Malo” this means “the people of St Malo” in English. I have selected these images as I felt it really captured the right amount of different personalities to really show how the people I met in St Malo act and how they are all very welcoming and joyful. Everyone I met whilst on the trip for the day were all very kind and caring people truly creating a strong impact on my views of the people within the St Malo walls.

Picture story 2:

Hundreds of thousands of terrified Rohingya refugees fled their home country due to brutality and violence against them, because of their Muslim beliefs. It was predominantly Buddhist who caused them to flee, because they did not agree with their Muslim beliefs. Rohingya refugees began flooding onto the beaches and paddy fields of southern Bangladesh in August 2017, it was the children who caught many people’s attention. As 60% of the refugees were children, who poured across the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh and brought with them accounts of the unspeakable violence and brutality that had forced them to flee.

Those fleeing attacks and violence in the 2017 exodus joined around 300,000 people already in Bangladesh from previous waves of displacement, effectively forming the world’s largest refugee camp. Six years later, about half a million Rohingya refugee children are living in exile from their home country. Many of them have been born into this limbo. 

The Rohingya rely entirely on humanitarian assistance for protection, food, water, shelter and health, and they are living in temporary shelters in highly congested camp settings. 

While basic services have been provided, children still face disease outbreaks, malnutrition, inadequate educational opportunities and the risks related to neglect, exploitation and violence including gender-based violence risks, child marriage and child labour. Meanwhile, annual cycles of heavy monsoon and cyclones pose substantial risks to both Rohingya refugees and host communities.

Older children and adolescents who are deprived of opportunities to learn or make a living are at real risk of becoming a “lost generation,” ready prey to traffickers and those who would exploit them for political or other ends. Girls and women are at particular risk of sexual and other gender-based violence in this situation, including being forced into early marriage and being left out of school as parents keep them at home.

Exhibition

There is an exhibition in Jersey, in the locations on the map below. The exhibition is there to spread awareness for the Rohingya refugees, so they can try and gather more help for them.

The exhibition presents images of these refugee camps and the Rohingya refugees. Many photographers have travelled to Bangladesh to capture the crisis there. Some images were also taken by Rohingya refugees themselves.

St Helier Cenopath

Broad Street

King Street

Queen Street

Bath Street

West’s Centre

Liberation Square

Statistics

Comparing the island of Jersey and the Rohingya refugee camps.

These statistics show that in Jersey it has a much older population, which may be because of the much harsher conditions in the refugee camps. These statistics show that most people do not live above 60 in these camps, and that there are many more children/ young adults.

The refugee camps are also much smaller than the island of Jersey being only 13km squared, compared to Jersey’s island of 120km squared. This means that they all must live in tight living conditions.

There are also much more people per km squared, proving that the living conditions must be extremely tight. In the camps there are 750,000 people per km squared compared to in Jersey there is only 859 people per km squared.

Another statistic that presents how tight these living conditions really must be is that n the camps there are 6 people per house compared to an average of only 2.2 in Jersey.

There is also no diversity in these camps, they are all Rohingya from Myanmar, compared to a range of ethnicities in Jersey.

They also do not receive a high income (£590 a year, below $2/day (no GDP data). In Jersey the average annual salary is £45,320 (GDP £4.9 billion). This must not be enough to live off for them.

They also have almost 4 times the number of children in a class in school. 70 compared to 20 students.

There mortality rates are also much higher than our mortality rates, which we can assume is because of the harsh living conditions they have to endure.

They also do not have as diverse religions as us, as a massive 94% of them are Muslims.

Personal Response

I think this exhibition trail has a very powerful message, as it showcases the lives of the Rohingya people and their day to day struggles. I also think that the statistics that were shown also helped people understand the reality of their situation. It really did showcase there struggles. The photographs also presented many differing people who are living in these camps and showed differing day to day struggles, such as broken bones and no health care.

Publics Response

I think the public’s response to this exhibition trail was good, because many people stopped to read and look at the images that were being presented and they took into mind the struggles of these people in the camps. I also heard people saying things such as:

‘They must struggle so much.’

‘Poor child.’

This really showcases that the public showed empathy towards their situation and it really effected them on a deeper level.

I wanted to create a page spread with a lot of my photos that I used the colour saturation for. With these photos, I came up with a title called, ‘Colour-Popping Malo’. This matches the theme because in my photos I have the colours saturated out so you can only see the bright, colourful ones. I even changed the title to match the theme by making some of the letters the same colours as in my photos.

After this photo spread, I changed the layout around because I felt like the photos were too crowded on the bottom left area, so I moved one of the photos top right which also cut some of that big paragraph in half which was even better. Then added some more separate text in that middle left space. Also, I moved the title from the top right which stood out a bit and looked unnatural, to on top of the coloured umbrella photo which is my establishing shot. But, I kept the word ‘Malo’ outside of the photo with it maintaining the all black look to create difference and stand out more.

I changed the AI generated waffle text into actual English talking about different things to do, see, and go to in St Malo.

“Devant leurs yeux” – “In front of their eyes”

Different Types of Images:

• Establishing shot–

Establishing shots are typically wide or extreme wide shots of buildings or landscapes. These shots might include signage, landmarks, or other obvious signals of place and time.

• Person at work–

Person at work shots are someone in their ‘element‘ at work doing their job.

• Relationship shot–

A relationship shot may capture the way in which two or more concepts, objects, or people are connected. This may be human relationships such as partners, family or friendships.

• Detail Shot-

A detail shot is a close-up photograph or artwork that focuses on a specific part or element of the subject, highlighting its intricate details and textures. The area or people around the subject are often blurry, whilst the subject is in high-quality focus.

• Environmental Portrait-

An environmental portrait is a portrait executed in the subject’s usual environment, such as in their home or workplace, and typically illuminates the subject’s life and surroundings. The term is most frequently used of a genre of photography.

• Formal Portrait-

A portrait is an image of a person’s face that clearly displays their likeness and may often display some aspect of their personality. A formal portrait is not a snapshot but a carefully arranged pose under effective lighting conditions.

• Observed Portrait-

INSPIRATION.

Student Examples of Work

By examining other students work, I am able to take ideas for my layout, titles and photo arrangement,. This is very helpful as I can see the calibre and expectations from finished work from this project before making my own picture story.

Student Picture Story Analysis.

Here I have taken a students picture story of St Malo and analysed it by identifying the types of images and different techniques they have used. I used arrows to identify different components such as the different types of pictures, poster/ picture story techniques and taking inspiration for my own picture board.

French Street Photography Inspiration.

Here are some photos I have attempted to replicate with my own street photography in St Malo.

Here are my virtual galleries displaying my images from St Malo. I used Adobe Photoshop to create this gallery and incorporated an ’empty gallery’ image from google. I then imported my images from Adobe Lightroom and displayed them in a layout I think suited the images and then added a ‘drop shadow‘ and ‘distorted‘ the images to fit the wall at an accurate angle.

What is the Rohingya crisis?

The Rohingya crisis is about the ethnic minority group The Rohingya who have been denied citizenship in Myanmar and faced decades of persecution. Currently nearly one million Rohingya refugees reside in neighbouring Bangladesh’s district. They are living in highly congested camps which makes them prone to bad weather crisis’s, insecurity and disease along with not having access to basic services such as health, sanitation and education along with many other things.

My response to the exhibition

My Evaluation

This exhibition of photos made me feel incredibly fortunate as children and families are living in congested camps which puts them at risk of catching diseases and illnesses and there are also dangerous weather hazards that they could face where they are living. However the Rohingya have a great sense of community which is something that I value because they stick together and help each other out as a community instead of being an individualist community. The publics response to the photos shows how some people have strong emotions towards the images and other people just walk past and don’t even acknowledge that they are there which shows the importance of these images and by putting them on display in a public area like town they are encouraging people to take notice and take action about the situation that is happening in Bangladesh.