Anthropocene overall Evaluation

For this project, I enjoyed learning about what Anthropocene was through the use of images and artist research and think I have been able to capture this in my own images. I managed to do a handful of different photoshoots and though I didn’t get a large sum of photos for each photoshoot I think the ones I chose to be my main images turned out well. For my pollution photoshoot I focused on pieces of rubbish I would find while outside. this photoshoot wasn’t exactly taken in a set time as I just took photos when I found something that would work well. Most of my photos were found on the beach which I found to be a very common environment for pollution to occur. this largely included the waste of plastic scattered along the sand.

Another photoshoot I did was overpopulation. The environment I chose for this photoshoot was mostly St Malo where I was able to capture images of busy streets which included people, cars and buildings. I think some of my photos did well to represent overpopulation, however, I think it would have been improved if I had focussed on this photoshoot a lot more and managed to get more decent looking photos.

My other photoshoot was the photoshoot that was inspired by Michael Marten where he focusses on rising sea levels. This photoshoot was only taken in the environment of beaches as the sea was a necessity to this photoshoot linking to Marten’s work. My photoshoot included many random beaches where the tide was either in or out and then I could come back and a later time where the tide times would be opposite to what is was when I took the first image. I found this photoshoot to be quite challenging as it required some planning to be able to know when the tides would be good to go back and get more photos. I found that my photos had mostly consisted of high tide images so I was limited to which ones I could use that included high and low tide. I liked my final image of this shoot as it also demonstrated using the AI skills to alter the photo and make it into my own.

My final presentation of images was mostly using mount board but arranged in different ways. The pollution photos were included in 3 of my final pieces. with the singular pieces of plastic, I chose to print them all on A5 and then put them all on a large piece of mount board all together to create the arrangement shown on the virtual gallery above. I think this worked well as they are all very similar photos so putting them all together looked right and two photos were landscape so they were able to fit in well underneath the three portrait photos. My other pollution final piece was with the use of AI. i positioned these photos one under the other as one was the original photo and the other was the photo that had been affected by the outcomes of pollution. Both these photos were printed in A4 so that the piece was quite big. I liked this piece as it has a deeper meaning behind such as how the world could eventually turn out if pollution carries on. My third piece was laid out in a different arrangement than the rest as the sizes didn’t match up to what I originally was planning to do. This meant I had to do one landscape beside a portrait and then another landscape. it would have worked better if the portrait was A4 but as they are all A5 it didn’t work as well. however, I do like the images that I produced as they were ordinary photos with the addition of AI to create scattered plastic around to further demonstrate pollution.

The overpopulation photos final piece only included 2 of my photos and I printed them one under the other in A4 and put them both on mount board. this photo was quite basic and i didn’t like it too much. My Michael Marten inspired piece was printed in A5 due to the AI giving it a lack of quality so making it larger would have looked worse. however, I did like this final piece.