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Commission: Environment

Challenging the Pic


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Introduction

Generally we have a pre-conceived conception of what picturesque is ansince the 17th century.

It entails subject matter that is considered picture perfect and creates the

Seeing photographs by Roger Fenton and Henry Peach Robinson and hoconstructed their images, creating photographs for the purpose of being pat also creates an image that doesnt portray reality.

Because of these ideas about the picturesque, certain types of landscapeacknowledged as being so. People fail to see the beauty amongst the unand this is what inspired this project to show people what they arent seein


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Challenging the Picturesque

John Muir, an American naturalist, and father

modern conservation movement once said:

natures landscapes are ugly so long as they


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J. M. W. Turner

Portrayed landscapes and seascapes of England. He experimen

the placement of humans and animals within the image effects it.

He captures the mood of an environment through light, colour, to

composition, creating an atmosphere within the image.


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Jem Southam / Dan Holdsworth

What I like about these two photographers is how they photograp

Even the horizon and sky is white, not to draw attention away fro


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Ori Gerscht

A 2004 series of mysterious, elegant and dream-like images that were actumundane locations around London such as traffic islands.

Subjective photography removes us from the landscape and into another level and high angle.

Overexposures cause loss of detail in the negative, distorting the colours afantasy like feel.


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Medway Salt Marshes

Found on the top layers of mud in sheltered areas, flooded at high tidblocks of grasses and plants that often arent found anywhere else.

They provide a habitat for nesting waders and sea birds, worms, shrimand are also a source of food.

Dissipate tidal energy, a natural barrier between the land the tide.


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Photographic Choices

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Ive focused on the rsomething associateand how the rocks asuspended. Slightly the still water becomempty space, drawin


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In this image I foccurve in the mud,intricate systems within the saltmawithin form and te

not subject matte

Pointing the lens the landscape givchoice but to foculandscape.


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An obvious but overlof a salt marsh is howhave been carved byused a 180mm lens landscape and enabfurther crop the imag

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Unit Evaluation

Time management was an issue with this part of the unit. From where I started with my concept and experimentation the idea din my research.

The biggest challenge has been controlling all the photographic choices so that they all communicate the same thing. I am definchoices when photographing. However I still think the images could be stronger in communicating the idea of the picturesque.

The weather has been another issue, but one that has been out of my control. Overcast days created flat images and dull coloulens flare. However, it has made me aware of how important every aspect of the image is.

A better choice of location wouldve made it easier to shoot more. If I were to carry on with this project or had more time I wouldfine tune the composition instead of enlarging shots of the landscape. This wouldve made it easier to make the imagery more a

The second image I feel is the weakest because of the dull colour scheme and doesnt possess the same quality of the other twdays and light conditions.

Ive learnt that communicating the idea through imagery is a lot harder than I thought. I believe the images to still be in d evelopmbe. And that capturing the true beauty of a salt marsh is also tricky. The photographic choices helped me to create a subject ive takes the audience into the landscape. In this instance it was a success. Being more experimental and original in technique maability to take the audience elsewhere.


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Commission: City

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Introduction

When we construct, politics causes man think he ow

land. He builds a fence or a wall and claims owners

As urban structures fall into disrepair, nature will eve

reclaim the land.

My initial idea was to capture natures control over n

urban environments and how it responds to the dec


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Nicholas Goodison

Comments on human intrusion on the Scottish Highlands Captures how natural elements such as rain, wind and sunlight eatin

man-made structures, eye-saws. The footprint on the land left by man will soon disappear in a geologic

Close up images focus on the details, the textures, the patterns.


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J.B Jackson: The Necessity For Ruins

Jackson questions what a ruin is. A reminder of a period in history?

"Ruins provide the incentive for restoration, and for a return to origins

"There has to be an interim of death or rejection before there can be renewal and reform. The obefore there can be a born-again landscape

"History ceases to exist

We can re-enact and re-construct environments from history but the truth is, there is no gettingthe past.


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Yoshiko Seino

She depicts scenes where nature has begun to reclaim a landscape fefforts to claim and re-shape it.

Her choice of spaces and locations focuses not on the decay or archiindustrial spaces but the neglect by humans that allows transformatio

nature.


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Andreas Gursky

Interested in how people live within the landscape.

Portrays human impacts of capitalism and globalisation, concentrating on areas of comtourism.

High angles emphasize the scale of his images and the human impacts.

Very technical approach, images made up of parallel sections, separates the images in

Human impacts flatten and bring order to the wilderness.


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The fence is almost completnature is stating on the over

composition includes enougbe recognisable and I also lithe pattern gradually fade as

I like how the nature appeardominating the space.


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Ive used a standard lens sotake a step back and createobservation .

Here it isnt just physical evireclaiming but also similar tonatural processes such as whave weathered the fence a

be being pulled down.

I like how the vegetation, thooverpowering, seems to be around the fence to pull it doimagery may not be as strontwo in the series but I like it


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between vegetation, antrees have formed their barrier.

Theres a sense of ironyusually used to confine confined.


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City Evaluation

I think my photographic choices and the compositions have helped to communicate my ideas.and shooting straight on creates a place of observation for the audience which was what I wanpresent a biased point of view. The image of the wooden fence is the weakest of the three becisnt as obvious however, it fits with the series aesthetically. If I had the time I wouldve liked tobetter time management would be an improvement in future, something that is recurrent throuof this unit.

I would place my work under the umbrella of man versus nature. Its about nature creating bou

structures, containing and reclaiming the land that has been claimed and marked by humans. more observant of man made structures around me and how the neglect and lack of maintenatopic a very common occurrence within society.

The challenge with this unit was scouting locations that werent repetitive and then having the conditions. This comes down to again time management and also planning ahead. Shooting ahelped me to expand the series to help put the second image within a better context and strenmessage and debate between man and nature


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Commission: Waste

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UK Landfill: The Problem

Around 7.2 million tonnes of food is thrown away by households in the UK About two thirds of the waste at landfill is biodegradable organic matter frobusinesses and industry; it rots and releases methane, a damaging green

In 2007 it was estimated that we only had five to ten more years of approvleft.


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My Intentions

Recycling schemes are a part of everyday life but wdone is collected food waste over a month from onefood that wouldve gone to landfill and placed it withhome environment to raise awareness of how the im

societys actions are closer than they think.

Whilst the human presence seems unaware and negthe piles of waste around them, the impact on theirenvironment is hugely significant.


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Surrealism and Dada

Surrealists avoided all logic and reason, seen as hindrances to creatiaim to trick the eye, shock and make their audience look twice.

Dadaists used an early form of Shock Art, humor, visual puns and eveinto the public eye. In a world absorbed by war, they made art that wa

visual protest.


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Rene Magritte

Frequently displays a collection of ordinary objects in an unusual context, gmeanings to familiar things.

Juxtapositions or combinations of objects, by inversions of scale and so onsurreal imagery.

"the art of putting colours side by side in such a way that their real aspect i


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Samy Charnine

Charnine's work is very similar to that of Dali's and Magritte's. Theseevident within her paintings. Most paintings combine objects in juxtapenvironments.

The contemporary twist to a pre-existent style was something I noted

subject matter and composition.


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Becky Beynon

Stretched stockings across the scenes of domestication, aims to

questions upon the placement of the female role within contempo

The intrigue of seeing stockings stretched across the house envir

framing creates a sense of the environment and provides context


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Nelly Ben Hayoun

The Other Volcano is a project that domesticates the most violent of

processes, addressing and reinterpreting different natures. In the corn

environment it can provoke fear or excitement.

Human Presence provides a sense of scale, low angle emphasises th


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Contact Sheets

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The pile of waste is sshoot through, a barmust get past which like about this particu


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Waste Evaluation

This body of work is a statement about societys attitudes towards the disposal of their food waste. It woother photographers works who also communicate environmental statements. The other niche that it wointo a magazine for an environmentalist group or geographical topic.

In my images I wanted to emphasise the pile of waste and the negligence of the human presence. The the 50mm lens and the low angle both create a sense of the environment and exaggerated the size of thwas successful in including the human aspect but for it not to overpower the shot. I do think my researcin the final photographs.

Something that stands out to me when I look at the final photographs is how the colours arent as vibransome circumstances, though I used all natural light, there was trouble printing because of the areas of scorrect this I wouldve used lighting to correct the areas of shadow to create a more even tone.

I wouldve liked to have shot at a few more locations to create a larger choice of photographs to chooseseries. Unfortunately die to time management and the massive development of my original idea, I dint hso. In the future, I will better manage my time if the same issue should occur with idea development. Ththis unit has been the time management and the trial and error process with my idea and also how to cothat works photographically. In the future, more experimentation and better planning will help to overcom

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