I have presented my galleries as if they are all in one gallery and you are walking through it so I can tell a story.
This is my first virtual gallery, it shows the story of my images that are presented like Dafna Talmar, the whole topic was about Anthropocene and I found that an intriguing topic to show my thoughts on it, as Anthropocene is open to a lot of different things, I wanted to show the side of pollution, littering and damage to out planet, and to show it in ways where you can see the damage and also the beauty. It was very important to me to never take away from the beauty of this island. I like these and how they came out, I really like the one in the middle and that is why I had it in full presentation, so it draws the eye, I thought it shows very well what I was trying to present, showing half a destroyed bad weather, littered beach then it was cut in half next to a beautiful sunny clean beach. The dream next to the nightmare. I also liked the way I cut it and blacked the edges to give the burn affect I feel like this gave the idea of the picture being ripped or even if u rip away the beauty you can actually see the dark truth of what the world will become, but I still feel it is very open to interpretation. Parts I didn’t like about this image was the ripping and burning affect, not only that it was hard but I think it would have looked cooler to have actually taken images and really ripped them and burnt them as I think it would give an affect better.
This is my next virtual gallery, so the next party you would see as you walk through, this part is almost showing into the future or like the bird one and the flowers one on how the world is, and even in things that are beautiful and that we all love there is rubbish, and how we should appreciate stuff more, I feel like this is specifically shown in the flower one because everyone loves flowers and thinks there gorgeous and summery yet you can see the destruction happening to them so if people where to my image they would realise they need to not only appreciate the beauty but do something about it to make it stay like that and not end up like the middle images which is the way we are headed. I didn’t love that this virtual gallery looks a bit dark and gloomy but also these images needed that affect because bright sunny weather isn’t going to happen in the future when the world is so polluted. when editing in al the litter I didn’t think it always look the most realistic, but that is how things are going to be and I was showing the future and overexaggerating to give a more powerful aspect of my image, expect the worst and people might actually try their best to fix this planet. My images show a lot of damage that will happen as I think it fits very well into Anthropocene and the litter side, and I was using artist studies as references to do my images similarly or to show the same idea of the damage and disgrace that will happen to this planet as I care a lot about it and feel peoples eyes need to be opened, and photography is a great way to do so as I am catching things that are happening, its not all made up its real this is life and we need to help it, so I think my images are very good in that aspect.
This is the next part of my gallery, and I really like it because it is more happy, when my other images are dark and gloomy showing damage to the world this one is showing beauty and presenting the nice parts of it. Obviously there are images of me showing the litter and what could happen, but its almost like giving hope to anyone viewing my image that it isn’t always doom and gloom and there is a beautiful side, of unlittered beaches and sees and sunny hot weather. I like all these images because I like to capture beauty and I think they are colourful and just bright happy images, I also liked the way they were presented which was similar to Michael Marten I just thought this was a cute way to present with the cuts in-between the images or the before and after of the high tide and low tide. They also aren’t my favourite images because i think some of them are quite boring and not eye opening or creative like my others as there isn’t much to them.
This is the final party of my gallery which is a past present and future version of the same image, this is the final send off for people to see, on how things used to be, clean, sunny, full of trees and nature, Then showing the developed meant of littering and population with more houses and just on how things have developed like a plane. the final image is how things will be if we continue with more clouds, darker weather, more houses then trees and more litter then beach.