Environment Powerpoint

8/13/2019 Environment Powerpoint

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The Environment

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Nicola Thompson


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My Concept

After researching about the American west and picturesque I have discovered

that there are many opinions on what it known to be a landscape.

An extensive problem with the world, is that nature is getting destroyed by

man kind to generate money in the short term, but this has a long term effect

on the environmental impact.

A proposal for an Airport in the Thames Estuary has been considered, to

suppress the congestion from existing Airports and to help economic growth.

By constructing the Airport, many factors of the environment will be damaged

such as animals habitats, protected birds, loss of the natural countryside, air

pollution and many more.

My series of 3 photographs will portray the destruction of the natural

landscape in which the Airport would be placed.


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Research

I have discovered many artists that photographed from the American West.

Ansel Adams photographed the landscape in a way to make it look purified anduntouched, where as Stephen Shore demonstrated the Land being dominated by mankind in a way that it was not majorly important to humans anymore.

Even though these photographs were taking at the same place, there is huge contrastbetween the two

I further discovered about man taking over nature, to try a portray a message to theviewer about how nature is being harmed

"Yosemite Valley, Winter" 1959 "Merced River, Yosemite Valley" 1979
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Robert Adams

Robert Adams is an American photographer who wanted to change the

landscape of the American West.

Adams has a sense of hope for natures persistence against man's

destruction of what was the wilderness and his photographs emphasizes

the beauty of nature in the face of humans persistent use of land.

"Turning Back 2000 Burning Oil Sludge North of Denver


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His black a white photos seem to show the

brutality of what man kind can do to nature.

The photos show the destruction of the

wilderness and with trees being imposing and

powerful, to weak and vulnerable.

I like how the object that is destroying nature is inthe photograph. This makes me feel shocked to

witness, as I can view how the destruction is

being produced.

This inspired me to use an object in my series of

photographs that show destruction to the land.


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Richard Misrach

Richard Misrach is a Contemporary photographer that helped pioneer the

renaissance of colour photography

Misrach is fascinated by earth forms and produces a politically-charged

series of works that demonstrate the damaging effects on the earth and

environment

"Bomb Crater and Destroyed Convoy" 1986

A bomb crater is filled with

crimson liquid where the

earth itself seems to bleed.

The radio active waste willcontaminate living organisms,

and will harm the natural

growth of Earth.


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Richard Misrach's photographs show the shocking

realisation of what man kind can do to the world.

For my series of photographs I want the viewers to have

an understanding of the message I am trying to portray.Richard Misrach has produced images showing the after

effects of man destroying nature.

As I am photographing about the possible arrival of Cliffe

Airport I wanted to show the natural land with a shockingclue of what could happen in the future.


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Miles CoolidgeAfter researching techniques by many artists I was drawn to the use of minature models, to

represent a message Miles Coolidge is a Canadian-American photographic artist, who focuses on landscape and

architecture.

He engages his viewing space with his use of scale, in combination with the subject matter.

From his "Safetyville Coolidge documents on the spaces where human life seem to be non

existent.

Images seem to be of large scaled buildings and houses, but on a closer inspection, they areinfact miniature sized models. The miniature town was built in California to teach children

about pedestrian safety. Safety Ville 1996

The way Coolidge uses scale to make something look

life like really inspires me by the use of subtle hints

used.

I explored how to produce models that look life like

and the different camera angles I would need to use
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Thomas Wrede

Wrede produces keeps the viewer guessing by using trickery to the eye.

He creates scenes with trucks and buildings, and places them in a way where they do notbelong

The images seem abnormal and bizarre but with a spectacular awe about the vast land the

viewer can see around the object.

The viewer is encouraged to search for evidence that concludes the image, to believe objects

are real.

High-rise, Housing Estate 2009


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I really like the idea of tricking the viewer, by making something fake look real. The

way Thomas Wrede has produced this really interests me and I would like to try out

this technique myself.

These images are

taken with a

digital Canon IXUS

camera. I have

used toy cars to

take photographs

of, to try and

make them look

realistic, and to

find put which

angle is best touse.


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Using the inspiration from Thomas Wrede and Miles Coolidge, I will place a model airport in Cliffe

marshes and photograph it. I will do this in a way that will show destruction to the land and

nature, using the inpiration of Richard Misrach and Robert Adams

(Airport Model I purchased)


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Elger Esser

I looked about how I could portray pollution and I discovered Elger Esser

German photographer that finds stillness and beauty in the most unlikely places

In most of his landscape photographs with the use of filters the light is soft and the

use of a green and yellow tone creates the effect of fog and pollution.

'Ponte A Tressa II' 2002Esser portrays his

photographs in a way that

demonstrates natures purity

and beauty. By having scenes

of a landscape with a human

object present, promotes theidea that man is damaging

nature.

The way colour is used will help

me to demonstrate pollution ordestruction in my images
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My locations for my models had to be inCliffe, so I searched for the more natural

places.


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I took my model Airport to Cliffe Marshes

and took photos, to determine what lighting

would be best and what angles I could use.

In a few of my test shots I used a green filter

to show pollution like Elgar Esser.

After a group discussion on my work, I

discovered that the photographs looked too

cluttered and the message was too obvious.


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About the Airport

Cliffe emerged as a potential Airport in 2002 as the marsh land is very vast.

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson has indicated the idea to call the new

Airport 'Boris Land' and has used 1.4 million pounds promoting it.

Facts

It is safer for a plane to take-off and land in water, than in a built up area Plans for high speed rail, links passengers to London or South East

four runways will be built, with a potential fifth that would only be used at

night

Cliffe has good sufficient land

Few people would be displaced by the airports construction

Low numbers of people would be affected by aircraft noise


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Map showing potential Airports
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What the future airport may

look like.

White papers for an airport

Sets out a strategic frameworkfor the development of airport

capacity in the United Kingdom

over the next 30 years, against

the wider context of the air

transport sector.

Sets out a policy framework

which will inform decisions on

future planning applications, and

against which the relevant public

bodies, airport operators and

airlines can plan ahead.

Sets out the conclusions of the

Government, and of the

administrations where

appropriate, on the case for

future expansion at airports

across the country.
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Advantages and disadvantages of the

AirportAdvantages-

Flights could arrive and depart at all hours.

A high-speed rail link to London with a journey time of around 20 minutes would

encourage more passengers to reach the airport using public transport.

It would be possible to reach the airport from terminals in both Kent and Essex,

diminishing the amount of new traffic and congestion imposed on either county.

Disadvantages-

The construction costs of the airport alone would be large. These were estimated

at 11.5bn plus

There is a risk of bird strike, higher for coastal sites, lower for offshore sites.

Building the airport would destroy the habitat of thousands of wetland birds.

Proposals rely on using capacity on High-Speed 1, which may be scarce.


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IMPACTS:

noise-It may be possible to ensure that the size of the population living withinthe 57 dB noise contour is either zero or very small

Land Take- If no existing land were taken for airport construction then impactsincluding: the loss of Green Belt and other designated land, open land andrecreational sites as well as residential property and commercial propertywould be avoided

Ecological impacts: Offshore site would have an effect on tidal flows and riverchannels which could have an adverse impact on marine ecology

Safety risks: The DFT's report (A study on the potential safety risks from birdsat and around a new airport at Cliffe Marshes and measures for mitigatingthose risks) identified that the risks of an aircaft hull loss would be greater forthe Cliffe site.

Flooding- Compensation dredging would be required to create a new flow

area equivalent to the area of the blockage caused by an airport island, butthere would remain the possibility of increased flood risk along the shores ofthe Thames estuary and its tributaries.

Air pollution-kerosene and other aviation fuels to power jet engines andpropellers means carbon dioxide emissions, among other types of pollution.


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Contact sheets

After looking at my contact sheets of my miniature

models in a landscape, I felt that the message I

wanted to portray was not clear or powerful enough.

And I wanted to make my images more shocking with

use of a subtle clue about an airport being present.

I placed the models in the landscape environment

in a way that was more subtle. Instead of the

whole airport, I only used parts of the model


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After researching about airports I came across a website, about a lady named Denise Mattox.

Denises husband was a musician and she toured with him around the world taking photographs

of her travels. One photograph in particular has given me inspiration for my project.

The photograph was taken

when Denise was

travelling on an aeroplane.

As she was looking out her

window she could see the

shadow of the flying

object. She captured an

image of it reflecting off a

natural landscape.

The idea of capturing the shadow of a aeroplane on a

beautiful landscape will make the viewers aware that an

airport is nearby, and could ultimately pollute the natural

environment.


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Final Idea

With the inspiration of Denise Mattox, Richard Misrach , Robert Adams and Elger Esser

I managed to create photographs portraying a beautiful landscape, with the use of

shadow from a plane I created to represent man kinds domination nature.

I cut out a stencil of a plane. And with the

use of different exposure, I managed to

create a shadow effect on the paper
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I chose 3 different background images

for my final photographs.

The backgrounds I have chosen are all in

different colours, to portray pollution that

will be created by the airport
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My Final Series of Prints

I have created a series of

photographs portraying man

taking over nature, from theproposal of Cliffe Airport.

I have used colour images so

that the photographs hold a

feel of beauty but destruction

at the same time.

The shadow is the subtle hint

that a plane is flying over

Cliffe, and this would be the

reality if the Airport came to

action.


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I used a photograph mostly

consisting of the as the

colours seemed like the trees

are on fire. This also

demonstrates what the land

would go through during

industry construction.
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I photographed a

blue/green sky to

represent the

pollution, using the

inspiration of Elger

Esser. The land is quite

dark so that the

viewer would focus onthe sky.
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Critical Analysis

The major issue I had with this project was that my camera knowledge was very low, so I didnt

know what camera or lens would be best appropriate to portray my model idea. I found it very hard to take the photographs I intended too of my model, as the shots I wanted were

not produced. This was because of difficulty with the camera and still trying to understand aboutthe light meter.

Some of my model shots were really disappointing as the F stop I used was too low, and the modelbecame blurry and out of focus.

For my final shots of my model, I developed good knowledge of the light meter and the macro lensthat was needed. I didnt have an assistant to help me set up my scenes, so I had to use sellotape

and the use of small boxes and twigs which I found quite difficult. Time Management was also a major issue, as when I changed my idea, I didnt give myself enough

time to research more thoroughly as I would have liked too.

I also would have liked to of taken more photographs of my model. This would have beenbeneficial, so that the techniques I had learnt could be seen in my photographs.

In the dark room, when I produced my final prints this was very difficult and stressful experience.When I discovered what exposures were needed I could then create my final print. This was somuch more harder than I first thought, as when I was making my full prints in the dark the stencil

had to stay very still as It was being exposed. When I printed the image I discovered that the planewas exposed in the wrong place, or that it was too sharp and didnt look realistic. To do my finalprints I had to use a whole box of paper which was frustrating as the paper is very expensive

Overall I believe that my photographs portray the message that I was trying to get across. I thinkthey show a good representation of what man is doing to nature. I am pleased that I changed mymodel idea, as the viewer would be unsure on what they are discovering in my photographs, andwhen they know the context, they would be very shocked.


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