Illustrated Project Proposal

Illustrated Project Proposal:

My Personal investigation is: to create a visual record of “A Destructive World”. The investigation will explore the destruction of nature and how conflict can cause a destructive world. This can be shown through plastic and rubbish or the effects of war leaving a place run down and looking ugly. I will record this from urban areas in the Uk, the seaside and from the third world country of Northern Cyprus, which is a ‘run down’ urban area.

Background

I've decided that I would like to focus on street photography within different places. I decided on this idea of photo-journalism as wanted to do nature photography, which is my strong point but to venture from my normal of taking photos of flowers etc. I also found that i could take photos whilst on holiday in Northern Cyprus this summer.

I'd like to begin this subject with shooting ‘How humans destroy the environment and ruin the beauty of nature’, such as, abandoned houses left broken down, rubbish in streets and more. This is also a good starting point because it means I can shoot in Harlow during lessons as well, as I can shoot up the town where there is urban places and graffiti.

Photographers research:

Photographer Nick Brandt’s epic panoramas in Inherit The Dust highlight man’s destructive presence in places animals used to roam.

I took a liking to Brandt’s work as he uses editing to show the before and after of nature and how humans evolving create less space for animals, hence extinction. 

I plan to try Brandt’s technique of the ripped, overlay of the photos within my own work, using either photoshop or printing my photos and hand overlying them.

Another photographer i took interest in is German photographer Christian Richter who has been breaking into abandoned buildings across Europe to capture their "swan song" for his Abandoned series.

Illustrations

  This photo is by Christian Richter. I liked this photo because the composition and the off straight lines show the rough atmosphere of the photo. I also like how dark the building is but how it still has light shining through in the to right corner as the sun is shining through a gap in the building.

This photo is by Brandt, I like how the photo presents many photos from the zone system. I also like the extraggeration as the man walking is 'ignoring' the elephant, although it isn't actually there.