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Illustrated in 1790 This showed the first example of development of a Harbour in St Helier. Built in 1700, the French and English Harbour (the 2 buildings highlighted in red) are older than any harbour on the Island. These served as the only port for Jersey’s larger ships until construction began of the North pier in 1790 to 1821.

Here shows a map of the harbour in 1834, The North pier is now present opposite the French Harbour. Later expanded upon in 1887 to 97 this became the New North Quay as seen today.

To improve the Harbours capacity, development of a new pier from 1847 to 1853 began. Named after the Prince Consort, Albert, this was announced on his second royal visit in 1859. Later on, Victoria pier, named after the current monarch at the time, was constructed from around 1841 to 1846.

Photos of the Piers reconstruction in the 1930’s:

As Jersey’s population increases, many inhabitants, cramped on this small island hold the desire for travel. As a result, in recent years, plans have been put forward to redevelop the aging Elizabeth Terminal.

As shown in the image above, this shows the plans in mind to facilitate creating a safeguard of the Islands supply chain, increase in capacity of handling future freight requirements, and overall, improving travel capability for Jersey.

– 2024

What was the involvement of Jersey mariners in the Canadian cod-fisheries and the Transatlantic carrying trade? –

Since Canada’s discovery from around 1497, Europeans from early years, had their Fishermen drawn to the continents’ local seas full of fish. By the early 16th-century 10,000 European Fishermen made the Transatlantic voyage to fish in the area for cod.

Amongst these Fishermen where sailors from the Channel Islands, who by the 1750s, had set up lucrative trade routes between Europe, Canada and America. Although Jersey folk did not necessarily fish themselves some did. The majority that where involved in the Canadian Cod industry, where merchants, trading all across the globe from areas such as in central America, North Africa and Europe. Through this process, Jersey was able to gain a lot of wealth through the trade deals made with Cod for other commodities such as coffee, sugar, wines and spirits. Imported into Jersey and then re-exported free of tax this made it quite a popular location for the international markets. With wood such a Mahogany imported this benefited Jersey’s shipbuilding industry which in turn fuelled the Cod trade with more ships to obtain these items.

Which ports did Jersey ships sail to and trade with?

Voyaging from coasts such as Gaspé, here was where they salted and prepare the cod for trade and travel. All year round Fishermen could travel and fish, seas held plentiful amount of fish, nearer the coast proved harder for other fisherman but Channel Islanders experience with coastal fishing made use of their skills. Other ports included that on the Newfoundland, South America and others. Main ports which ships travelled to during their trades consisted of Bristol, London, Liverpool. Trading through both English and French ports in the Newfoundland, Jersey peoples native tongue and adoption of English benefitted them massively due to how similar they sounded. Using it also to discuss trade deals this allowed them to judge if they felt they where being scammed or not.

Charles Robin

1743 – 1824

Charles Robin, a Jersey Merchant , is one of many Channel Islanders who sailed to the Gaspé Coast as well as the grounds of Cape Breton Island.

Within his life he became the Island’s leading merchant and biggest exporter on the Gaspé Coast. Forming the family firm Robin, pipon and Co in 1765, they established links with Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia and the British colony of Newfoundland. In the exchanging of control from French to British in the Newfoundland’s, Robin was sent to Seaflowerto to establish potential trading on the coast south of the St Lawrence river, which when under French control used to been the territory of St Malo merchants. Here, Robin discovered some of the best fishing grounds in the Atlantic were across the banks of the St Lawrence River by the mouth of the Gaspé Coast.

On the gravelly beaches of the banks, this proved perfect for the drying process of the Cod collected by fishermen. In the following year robin returned and established a dock within a lagoon which ships could safely anchor within. From this point onwards, Robins lucrative industry began thriving. Trading with America, Britain and many other countries this generated a lot of wealth for Robin. However due to fluctuations in the need for Cod life at the Gaspe was exactly perfect. Wars would occasionally cause trading difficulties, with the British-American war of 1812 – 1814 for example, this forced him to close for a couple of years. Annoyances such as ship seizures by privateers, lost valuable cargos and attacks from French ships caused Robin to suffer some difficulties. However being a resourceful man, during Britain’s war against France, he made his men disguise them selves as French soldiers. Speaking Jersey’s dialect of French he could deter any questionings by French warships. Due to fears of losing his men for pressures of joining into naval service, he avoided British ports, sailing to Portugal and Jersey, he recruited more workers from the Les Quennevais area. Bringing in carpenters and shipwrights this allowed him to construct his own vessels and develop his industry further and have ships docked in both Jersey and at the Gaspe. Settling back home in Jersey, Robin left the Gaspe for last time in 1802, however still ran operations. Even after his death his firm continued on in his legacy.

What type of goods did Jersey merchants exchange for cod-fish?

Throughout the Transatlantic carrying trade, Jersey Merchants received, by French and English fishermen, dried and salted cod. Providing economic benefit to Jersey, these allowed for much larger exchanges to ports in the Americas. Through these trades, Jersey folk received commodities, exotic in comparison to the food on the island. Islanders could now enjoy items such as rum from the Caribbean, molasses in the West Indies, coffee from countries in Africa, wine from brazil and mahogany from Honduras.

To what extend, has the island of Jersey benefitted from its constitutional relationship with Britain and the legacies of colonialism based on a slave plantation economy during the first Industrial Revolution (1760-1840)?

Although beneficial to Jersey’s economy at the time, these commodities received through trades in the cod industry were provided of the backs of slaves within the Americas. Goods such as mahogany were obtained through trade as a result of the Slave Trade. Harvested in Honduras through the work of forced slave workers, this wood was crafted into items such as furniture for Jersey’s richer islanders to purchase from trading merchants involved in the slave trade. Furthermore, with the importing of Mahogany into Jersey, this wood was provided to be used within Jersey’s ship building industry. With ship construction across numerous building yards In Jersey, these ships were made and sold to more traders and merchants involved in the trades. Slave traders from Britain, using purchased ships built in Jersey, would use these throughout the slave trade.

Ships from Jersey such as the ‘Neptune of Jersey’ delivered 165 enslaved people to the West Indies In May of 1762. The ship ‘Hope’ built in Jersey, 1747, departed from Bristol in 1759, to pick up 230 enslaved people, here they then disembarked 199 enslaved people in Jamaica. These are only 2 examples of numerous accounts taken of Jersey’s involvement with the slave worker.

Image 1:

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Editing:

Adding a filter from the app Snapseed, I lowered the saturation and temperature to add an aged Hue to the image, Altering the highlights, I aimed to make my facial features stand out more.

Adding grain to the image, this further helped add to the desired aesthetic of a grained image.

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Image 2:

Before:

Editing:

In attempts to make this vintage image look more modern, I tried to bring out the colours more to seem more plausible to be taken from a modern camera/phone.

brightening up the image allowed for a more natural skin tone, compared to the over-saturation which has come from the camera at the time. By also adjusting the ambiance, this created a more realistic impression of warmth of the image, since the image was taken on a sunny day.

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Combining the works –

To make these edits more interesting I’ve taken an abstract approach to my images by merging with a cut-out pattern within each of them.

Doing vertical lines on the image of myself and horizontal on the ones of my dad It created a really interesting composition of a checkered design where both subjects (me and my dad) are visible in their pictures.

By lowering the opacity of the image of my Dad, this was how I created that subtle fade.

Image 3:

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Editing:

Using the editing settings shown, I did this in order to the bright cracks due to aging of the original photograph.

Furthermore I added a blur to image surrounding my Dads head, this was intentionally done as for my images final outcome I wanted to create an interesting effect which would become apparent when finished.

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Image 4:

Editing:

For this image, I had already altered it previously by converting it into greyscale, for it to work for my final project I cropped the image down and added the blur affect like my previous edit.

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Combining the works –

Cutting the first image in half, this allowed for me to line up the second image, with the blur effect surrounding both of our heads, this created an interesting effect, as due to the majority of the image being blurred it forces them to focus on the faces.

As a result this is what turned out.

Image 5:

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Editing:

Firstly, I cropped this image to make the composition smaller and focused on what would be added to it later. With to much room I felt this would takeaway from what the outcome would look like.

Using the following settings, I altered this image to make it greyscale, but also to make parts of the clothing I was wearing stand out more once converted. To do so I mainly lowered the shadows, and increased the brightness and contrast to what suited it best.

Adding grain to the image, this took inspiration from my artist reference, John Stezaker. The aim was to create the effect of a vintage photograph which is usually the subject of his work.

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Image 6:

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Editing:

For the second edit of the image set, I applied the same edit settings as the previous image.

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Image 6:

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Editing:

Using a pre-set style from ski seed, This allowed the image to have that old-digital camera look which was what I hoped to create.

adding another vignette, this helped made the image look more realistic for when i added it to the final outcome.

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Image 6:

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Editing:

Using the same settings as the previous image, I liked how this image came out, To me it really does replicate that early 2000’s camera style.

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Combining the works –

With Stezaker work, some of his images within images contain a ripped paper effect as if a post card has been glued on. To replicate this I found a stock image and copied the effect.

Using the Object select tool, I was able to cutout the stock image.

Combining this with the edited image, I added a drop shadow to make it seem as if the edited image looked like it wasn’t properly stuck down to the paper.

After merging the 2 I then adjusted the image to how make it seem more naturally placed like how Stezaker had done with his work.

As a result this is what turned out.

Combining the works –

Like the image before I repeated the process of cutting out the paper to have that postcard effect.

Again, adding a drop shadow, and merging the imported image and paper this then allowed me to place it in the desired place for my final outcome.

As a final result it turned out like this.

Final Image outcomes:

Here are my Final outcomes of my St Malo Page spreads.

Physical outcomes:

Printed out physically, I have mounted them on foam board for display.

Here I will show the design process of how I made my page spreads of my images from St Malo.

Layout arrangement –

1st design –

After arranging out a design I liked, as well as adding the images I believed best suited with it, I left a gap for text to be included.

By adjusting the Images again I made some room for my page spread title, by also moving my text box higher up this made it closer to the top of the page and more easier for the eyes to be guided when looking at the work. Inside Its text, I wrote about my inspiration, Henri-Cartier Bresson.

Adding stroke borders, This help defines the image more on the page and matches to the text box, which also contains a bordered.

2nd design –

Designing the layout of the second design, I focused on the examples of male youth culture/hooliganism I saw within St Malo. Through selecting my edited images I have composed a similar aesthetic between these images inside this picture story page spread.

Whilst in St Malo I noticed that graffiti was quite common in the area, with masculine connotations being a quite common idea behind the idea of graffiti, I decided to include this in my work. Using a font that to me looked like it was created with a spray can, I used the pencil tool to add a rough level of detail of paint marks to further generate my impression of my title.

With the final text added, This came out quite well in my opinion and creates an interesting composition around the aesthetic I chose to present.

Final Outcome of Image:

Mood board of layouts:

This page layout where a subject covers an entire page is something I’d like to try and incorporate into my work, I chose this as it simplifies viewing the work and can provide more impact to contents within that image.

These Layouts with a combination of very large and small images attracted my attention due to its interesting composition. Something like this could work for images that are taken within the same area, like how in these references they all take place within a combat zone or a village .

this picture story’s use of a full image for the front cover, with limited text is a good example of how to present my work. By having one area sum up the contents this could apply for my St Malo images.

This picture story is a good reference for its, easy to follow narrative through inter-connected photos and text description. By added context this creates and interesting story to follow.

Without text, multiple images on a double page spread is another unique way of presenting images. As mentioned previously, this would apply well to my images taken within the same context.

Having a singular image spread over an entire page, with or without text, is another method of picture story design I might incorporate into my work, depending on the picture and its contents this could make it stand out a lot more to viewer.

Text overlaid images is another interesting way to incorporate information about the contents of your image. Darker areas of images are best for this as it acts as a back drop within the image for your text.

St Malo Street Photography –

Here are my final images from our day trip to St Malo, throughout this edited shoot, I have captured the sights, people and atmosphere in a series of images.

First edited Images –

Second edited Images –

Edit Settings:

For my edits, I have focused on mainly on altering on Saturation, Clarity and Texture. Through examples I will show their slight variations, depending on the subjects within the frame, such as movement, lighting and distance.

Due to numerous edits containing similar settings, I will break down some of the main types of edits I’ve made to the majority of my images.

Example 1 – Low light:

Since in the original image, limited light was within the foreground of the images contents, I aimed to highlight this through editing by creating more depth to it through editing.

Camera Settings:

Before:

Editing process:

Through cropping my image to centralise the composition of windows and subjects, I converted my image into greyscale through removing the saturation. By altering other features such as clarity and texture, and settings within its tone, I edited this image with the focus on making the light standout from its outside source, and highlighting the woman in pinks appearance due to her singular action of looking out the window.

Final image:

Example 2 – Motion:

Inspired by Cartier-Bresson’s image of a cyclist I decided to try and create something similar within St Malo using motion.

Camera Settings:

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Editing process:

By adjusting the texture, clarity and haze, I tried to create a sharp but also an intentionally blurred image.

Final Image:

Example 3 – Distance:

Edit 1 –

With Cartier-Bresson’s images of large infrastructure, dwarfing their surrounding subjects, I took inspiration from this in my own work and tried to recreate it.

Camera Settings:

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Editing Process:

After turning into black and white, to add more pop and character to the image I attempted to make a tonal shift between shades. With lots of distance into the image it can be seen that it contains lots of different tones that can pop out once edited.

Final Image:

Edit 2 –

In the next image I did something similar with a more busy street.

Camera Settings:

Before:

Editing process:

To edit this image, and incorporate those variants in tone from colour when converted to greyscale, I prioritised making the small details in the lower half of the image stand out more with dehazing and white and black balance.

Final image:

Example 4 – Cropping:

By shortening down the original image, Cropping can help create a more effectively deeper meaning to its contents.

Camera Settings:

Before:

Editing process:

adding additional shots, I wanted to further detail this image by overlying multiple images. By adding different angles, changing their colours and opacity, I think this adds more detail and exclusiveness to the image.

Final Image:

Example 5 – Reflections:

Edit 1 –

Capturing a few photos where Reflections where caught in them, I liked how they came out a lot and can be said to capture 2 moments in one image without the use of artificial alterations.

Camera Settings:

Before:

Editing process:

To make sure both reflection and subject within the image where able to be recognisable I mainly used highlights and contrast to make them both stand out.

Final image:

Edit 2 –

Camera Settings:

Before:

Editing process:

Due to the unedited version being slightly out of focus but a lot of the tonal settings being alright, I mainly used the dehazing and clarity to make the image look nicer in greyscale.

Final image:

Edit 3 –

Camera settings:

Before:

Editing process:

Editing this image, like before I focussed more so on clarity and dehaze, this was to differentiate the subjected reflections within the original image.

Final image:

Contact sheet –

Here is my contact sheet for the images I took whilst during our day trip. Due to the amount I took it is to time consuming to grade them all, so to distinguish them I’ve flagged them as either white or black.

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Black –