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November 3rd – 6th 2023 Cultural work inside Kraków, Poland. This trip was a reconnaissance of what the city and local culture have to offer for my personal development in photography. This worked well because of the historical impacts that time has had on the city, with the population of the Jewish community being deported
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The images that were taken during this shoot were unplanned. It also looked at the way I was experiencing the camps for the first time, and it was interesting to see where my head went during time and how the information that I was being told also affected the way that I shot, and this
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Location – Manchester Research – Zed Nelson How and why he felt compelled to shoot the way and location that he did to produce the work about Hackney. When shooting, I have found that there is a strong likelihood of people not wanting to be photographed. This became a problem due to the way that
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Susan Sontag From on Photography. New York: Delat Books, 1977,pp.3-24 Analysis Susan Sontag’s analysis of Plato’s cave looks into the details of the ideology of blissful ignorance. This is the overall idea of Plato’s cave, which explains the idea of prisoners being forced to watch shadows until they see them as reels. This idea is
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Legacy Project This project was looking into the creation of night skies using lamps and signs that are layered inside Photoshop and used to create these night skies. When creating this selection of images, I wanted to focus on the effects that light has on the environment. However this work became a little more abstract
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“the building seems to speak so much to the condition of the city” Ponte City escapes the dehumanising overarching perspective of those who view the world from the god’s eye. Ponte City is shown to be a dehumanising way of living, almost a dystopian world that has been created for the inheritance that lives there.
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Development This image is crap. The lines in the road distract from the subject too far, along with the cars in the back, creating tension all along the back of the image. The placement of the subject is also off because of the line that is obstructed from the leg of the subject into the
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Hackney – A Tale of Two Cities The Nelson project in Hackney shows the social landscape of underprivileged families and new urban hipsters colliding in a progressively gentrified area. Nelson’s images have a direct binary contrast built into each image. Nature and unnatural; colour and grayscale; rich and poor. The selection of images used in
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