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Summative Assessment

Commission UnitDaniel Warnecke


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LandscapeI started my project by investigating problems that were a social orpolitical issue to the public of my surrounding area in Rochester. I

under went this by looking at local newspapers such as TheMedway and searching through online archives and forums online.This is when my breath was taken away by a striking story whichappeals to the mass public of the whole of the UK and is lifethreatening, sprouting from the very heart of the Medway its self.

I found a story on Heathrow's Third Runway and all the devastationand debates through the media and press that came with it. It wasthen I realized that I could it was a good topic to undergo my

photographic practice as it also had huge political and social issues tothe public of the Medway towns.

I am looking into the theme of pollution in the landscape. My mainobjective is to exploit and show the sinister and damaging effects ofplanes taking off from Heathrow and the issues that arise from this


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RUNWAY MAY MEANMORE POLLUTIONDEATHS

A News's title taken from BBC online news page

on the 13th October 2012 this is a major currentissue in my surrounding environment and I am atthe right time to be at the fore front to capturethe action and political action.

The article noted that the research, funded byUS university MIT, suggests Heathrow aviationpollution causes about 50 early deaths a year

and this number is rising. That figure may climb


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The report's lead author, Steve Barrett from MIT, saying early deathswould be reduced by more than 60% if an estuary airport was builtbecause weather conditions would expose fewer people to pollution.He told the BBC: "Because of the location of the [Thames estuary]airport, such an airport would be further away from major population

centers so fewer people would be exposed to pollution from that airport.Note how the word pollution is being used over and over again.

"If you instead had an airport in the Thames Estuary, that pollution wouldget blown over the English Channel and North Sea," he added. Mypersonal opinion on this so called solution is outrageous as they continue

to invest millions of pounds into Heathrow they are not stopping theproblem just moving it out of the public eye and putting more pollution into our country side were the wild life and sea life on the English channelwill be affective.


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Important statistic to remember>>>

Currently about 110 people in the UK die early

every year "due to airport emissions". Of thesedeaths, about 50 are directly due to emissions fromHeathrow, the report said.

London Mayor Boris Johnson has backed the

concept of a Thames island airport, with one ofthree plans unveiled dubbed "Boris Island".

Financial analysts say the Thames Estuary projectwould only be financially viable if Heathrow wasclosed down.

As influences such as Boris Johnson shad light onto thecurrent issue of Heathrow and themes estuary we can seethe fierce political debate heating up. As I dig deeper intomy research I am finding pull and pushes factors fromboth sides from a variety of media and sources howevermy heart still lays of that of the Kent community that willbe affected. The government are stating that local

communities will have an increase in economy and jobs


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What is the Themes Estuary?

It will be a national infrastructure project that can inject new pace anddynamism into our economy.

The airport can be quickly manufactured in the ship yards and steel works

across the UK and can be floated by sea and positioned in the Estuary.This isn't a London airport, it is a global airport, designed, manufacturedand built in the UK

The "massive" cost, as much as 60bn, would have to be recouped fromcharges which deterred operators from moving there.

The mayor has already backed the concept for a Thames island airport, for

which there have been two other plans unveiled, one dubbed "Boris Island".The airport would be connected to London by high-speed rail.

Here is an image that was featured in the The Guardian as well as the onlineBBC new archive of what the themes estuary is set to look like.

Proposals for London BritanniaAirport, designed by architectsGentler, include four floatingrunways tethered to the sea bed.The architect said the designallowed for future expansion to

accommodate six runways whenrequired.


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This is currently what the area looks likeknow taken from Echo News the local

online paper which had the statementbeside saying. "Concerned councilorsclaim plans to develop an internationalairport accommodating 150 million

passengers a year, a stones throw fromsouth Essex, would be disastrous for thearea."


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preparation

I have decided to embark on a journey to my local airport in the town ofRochester as i can not afford to make it down to the themes estuary todaymy trip will cost 10 in a cab there and 10 back plus 15 pound for my film.I am hoping to gain a better idea of composition and how i am going toexecute my final images.

Make sure i use a wide range camera angles and position to later recap on

when looking for compositionKeep in mind the area i am going to be in may be restricted so use all

ways of cunning to get around obstacles such as security and guard dogs.When looking at a landscape it is not all ways a broad image of an open

land use the environment to really connect to the atmosphere of the placestake low shots and zoomed in sections as well.

Use my new found knowledge from lectures to try and get into somePhoto ra hers I have been ins ired b such a Lewis Waltz and Ansel Adams.


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The area marked point A is my university halls where I will by traveling fromto point B the Rochester Airport and is 2.5 miles away witch will take 56minswalking or 8mins by car.This is another image from Google maps which I have studied to give me abetter understanding of the area as it is surrounded by busy main roads withno foot paths and if I can not get into the runways or airport it self will be awasted journey and i will need to shoot from afar.

Fi t L ti h t d


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First Location shots andComposition ideas


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I f l th t i t ll th t ff


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I feel the trip went very well the staffthere were very helpful and let me takephotographs over the whole airport with

accesses every where. The trip hasdefinitely developed my ideas and hasopened my ideas to new compositions

which I previously had not thoughtabout. In the images I have displayed onthis post I have made slight retouches,crops and effects just to keep the basicideas have noted down but are no whereon the level of my final images will be fore.g. I will be shooting with Film camera

and will have to work out what film and


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Contact sheets test shoot


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Contact sheets testshoot


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Contact sheets testshoot

C t t h t t t


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Contactsheets testshoot

Environment research and


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Environment research anddevelopment.

I had a veryinspiringone to


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I have decided to keep the nitty gritty gravel of the floor within my final

image as i feel it provides and essence of grounding.By keeping the ground within the image it gives the viewer the idea of what isbeneath the sinister plan that will be in the sky.I also find these big buildings not welcoming or homely providing anotheraspect of the sinister to my image.I am also interested in shooting in black and white as the bleak white sky will

give even more emphasis on the powerfully man made form of fear that issoaring in the skies.


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This image was taken from the same pathway as the previous image however by only taking a few steps back I was able to incorporate a new focalpoint giving the composition much more depth.I really found that by using depth of field to bring into sharpness of thebarbed wire and blur the path way it created a sense of the forbidden andgives the viewer the feeling that the path way unreachable.I am now thinking about how I'm going to use depth of field in my final image

and how is it really relevant to have an airplane in focus or even in the shot.


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LEWIS BALTZ INSPIRED

I feel this image is the strongest of the three as it the composition andcamera angle allows the subject in the sky to have dominance andinferiority of what is below allowing the theme of the sinister to beincreased

Leaving the theme aside I find the actual image to be very aesthetically

pleasing and the strong contrast between the black and white creates astrikin and bold statement to the viewer as o osed to the last two

What happened next was crucial to the development of my ideas and just


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pp p y jwhat I needed to smooth off the edges. My lecture Steffi introduced me toan amazing German photographer called WOLFGANG TILLMANS who I feelwas very relevant to my work as he has tackled a similar theme of thesinister and fear. His series the Concorde also has very much similarcomposed shots as my third shot on display here. I then started to

investigate further in to the mainframe of Wolfman and using him as acreative reference to my own photographic exploration have managed toconform composition and subject matter ideas of my own. Below I havedisplayed some of the works he has produced which I feel are relevant tomy theme.

I find this image as a referenceextremely relevant to my work asWolfman has angled the camera in theperfect way to capture the essence ofthe sinister metal bird of pollution in thesky as well as keeping the environment

in shot.I will bring a medium format camera witha tripod to the side of the motorway andalso try to recreate this form ofphotographic execution.


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These three images placed next to each other just made my heart stop, as Iwas dazzled by the magnificent composition and angles Wolfman managedto execute in order to represent the theme.

The first image on the left reminded me of the shot I took with bulbwire using depth of field to create an atmosphere ofthe forbidden and unreachable witch also gives emphasize on to stayaway from the sinister world of the plain.I will also create a triage of three images of the same theme but withall different compositions and locations for my final piece.


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In this image we can see a complete different approach to Wolfmans work ashe has directed the camera angle face on this is a show of change in directionin his own work because he is used to facing the camera upwards as he used tbe a telescope. I will go to one of the bridges of the surrounding airports andusing a tripod and a medium format camera look to create a similar

composition but also capture the plane in the sky.

On the day of the shoot I travelled by car from Rochester to London's inner


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y ycity airport in Newham where I had sourced on Google maps a primelocation witch was rich in subject matter for me to shoot. I had found keyspots from where I could capture the large plains souring low ready fordeparture and take off. I wanted to capture the planes in the sky but alsowanted to to capture some of the city scape as well to introduce a more

personal level to the viewer as they could recognize landmarks fromwithin London. I found the day to be useful as it has made me more awareof certain issues I had not taken into consideration and will not makeagain for example I did not set the is settings on the light meter to matchthe film so this made my analogue images weak and unable to printmeaning I will have to reshoot. I also found a prime location where I could

capture planes taking off from under a bridge, but it is not powerfulenough to convey my theme for the sinisterism of the plane and thepollution it carries I will now like to introduce a human presence to mywork where as I will return to the same location but bring a model with apram to really give my final set of images more depth and significance tomy theme.

m n ma e ng o s ow


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m n ma e ng o s owcontrast within the

darkroom


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I really like the series of digital images I produced as I felt the smaller


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y g g pthe silhouette of the plain in the bleak vast open stretches of the skygave it a presence of sinisterism from its tiny form like a small beecanaplly such fear. Often the shapes that the plain silhouette gavereminded my of a crucifix and I found this a powerful message from

within the image. I also decided to show how the border size if I wasto print making the image very small and the whiteness around theborder much more of a dominant factor. I did this because I felt itgave another layer to showing how small and sinister the subject ofthe plane was in the sky when in reality it is a huge contraption but

the human eye cannot see that from below. So I mirrored this in theborder size.


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from medium formatcamera


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On the whole I do feel the analogue images came out as I


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On the whole I do feel the analogue images came out as Ihad expected due to a combination of poor light metersettings as well as composition. I now have a muchclearer idea of how I want to develop these ideas and

communicate my theme of the sinisterism from theaircraft. And I will do on my next shoot.


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Final Shoot


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Final ShootMy reshoot was carried outin Harlow very close to

Heathrow. This suburbanenvironment was perfectlocation to produce mywork as it had all theelements I was looking for.From house and roads next

to motorways and bridgeswith neighboring greenareas of parks and trees Iwas able to capture thethree final images I had set

out to do. I selected threelandscape type imagesfrom my edit with gave thecontrast of the man madeplanes next to nature withonly enhanced my themeof pollution.

Contact sheets Final


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Contact sheets FinalLandscape


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The City


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The CityI wanted to the venture to a location within London witch captured thevibrancy and busy hustle and bustle of every day life from the city. So I

decided to go to east London where it is well known for its urban graffitiand quirky buildings. I traveled by tube and foot so i could take in everyaspect of the sounding environments. I arrived in Brick lane a highlydiverse and cultured area which was mainly populated by the Asiancommunity. I wanted to capture the noise of the busy streets but mymain theme and concept was looking into how Inner City Houses are

effected by the out side world. I wanted to capture the visually worndown and eroded houses what was a product of the urban cityenvironment it was part of, as well as to accompany it by using thephotographic technique of scratching on the photograph to emphasis thenoise and chaos from the walls of the house.I concentrated on the doors and windows of the front of the houses' as

this is where it was the bridge between the inside of a home where it isseen to be peaceful and welcoming as opposed to the city which liesoutside. I started by walking round with my digital camera and takingtest shots particularlytaking note of how busy and noisy certain roads were. The secondaspect I was interested in was documenting the different surface

textures that were found on the walls as they gave off a history andclues of to how this city had given the houses there very own unique

The camera I used on the day was a


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The camera I used on the day was aMamyia Rz 2 with a 110mm lens anda tripod. I feel that the trip was worth

while because I found the perfectlocation to portray my theme and thebusiness and noise level of East

London were very relevant to what Iwas trying to capture. How ever theshoot did not turn out how i hadexpected at all as to my miss fortune

after processing I had discorded thatthe film inside the camera was notwinding on correctly and has created

a multiple exposures onto my


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The rich and vibrant reds and washed out pinks of the decorated door andwindow frames gives a sense of the urban and unique atmosphere of EastLondon which gives the landscape identity within the city.

I wanted to capture the doors and widows in the light of being a barrierbetween the inside of a peaceful and quiet home in contrast to the noisyoutside world.

The fragmented and pealed walls show layer after layer of refurbishmentare like peeks into the past as we can see a history of age from the house


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This was my favorite out of the selected images I have chose to display,due to its extremely unique and half hearted attempt of being decorated icould not work out if this paint job was done on purpose or not. Either way it

provides wonderful subject matter for my urban landscape as it echoes withquirkiness and character.

I also find this composition to be different to the other as we can see asmall dim light from within the dusty and raggedy window net that gives apresence of human presence and hole new works from behind the windowsand door witch I find extremely interesting.

Another aspect behind this photograph witch makes it different is that the


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What was interesting and useful to me as a photographer was thateven though I was photographing this house on the same street therewas a huge diversity in aesthetics.The inner city houses on the street all had a diversity in Brick work,

Colour, Materials Doors and windows and up keep.I found this an intriguing factor as through out the day I had observedthe people who were entering and exiting their houses, who seemed tome to be of the same status and tight nit community of Asian descent.This then made me make pre mental judgments and questions as a

photographer, Where these historic gems of inner city houses acting like

shells as what to would a hermit crab and just being in habited by theowners?


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What was interesting and useful to me as a photographer was that eventhough I was photographing house on the same street there was a hugediversity in aesthetics.The inner city houses on the street all street had a diversity in Brick work,

Colour, Materials Doors and windows and up keep.I found this an intriguing factor as through out the day I had observed the

people who were entering and existing there houses, who seemed to me tobe of the same status and tight night community of Asian decent.This then made me make pre mental judgments and question as a

photographer, Where these historic gems of inner city houses acted likeshells as what to would a hermit crab and just being in habited by the

owners?


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Another aspect I would like to incorporate into this theme if I was to reshootwould be to wait until people are entering there houses leaving behind the

urban chaos. This human presence would give another dimension as thehouse would become more powerful in terms of a shelter and refuge for theowner.I would definitely stick to the theme I have developed using the frame to

just capture the two windows and the door excluding all else from the frameso the camera distancing is fine.

However I would next time measure as the Bechers did to create the sameamount of proportions for each house to create a categorical effect when on


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from medium format


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from medium formatcamera.

Here are the chosen houses I chose to shoot on my mamyiaafter looking at the thumbnails of my digital test shots I felt thehouses I had chose were all strong in character and producednice compositions for my final set. How ever after processingmy film and discovering my negatives were distorted itchanged the hole feel to my shoot as now it was abstract andexperimental. I do know now that that this effect was due tothe camera not winding on the film properly and creatingmultiple exposures, if I was to re shoot I would try purposelyrecreate multiple exposures and the shaken up and distortedimagery gives the composition a sense of movement and andenergy and to what it would be in an earth quake expressingthe high noise levels and movement within the photograph.

I chose to use three of the negatives witch had most distortion

and multiple exposures but still maintained a a strong level offocus and shar ness still to re resent Urban Noise and Chaos


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Photographers


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PhotographersAs I began to draw into the surfacewith an etching needle, I wasinterested in the ambiguous and

suggestive power of scratchingdrawn lines into the photograph,both scarifying but also in someway like an opening up of theimage. It felt like reaching in andbeyond the image, into the spaceand moment that the photographwas taken in, but also even furtherback, literally drawing on andresponding to the particular vitalityof this person.

I'm interested in the potential ofrevealing dimensions beyond thesurface of the image, in some wayactivating human connection andunseen emotional contours. -

Dryden Goodwin


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Photographer


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Even though Dyden Godwin has used different subject

matter to etch upon in his photographs his techniqueand philosophy is still very relevant to my theme and Ihave adopted upon his mind frame to include aspectsinto my own work to push it forward.

I can see how Goodwin has followed human emotionsand extended this by using the etching needle to highlight contour lines upon the face as I will also do on mylandscapes in a city environment.

I will use the etching to recreate movement with the

directional marks I make upon the surface of thephotograph that will give it energy and a dimension itcould not posses purely from printing.

I also have recombined that the mark making it self isdestructive and a violent act on to the print this echo'sthemes as of the sub ect matter of the houses are also

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technique on c-type printsThe next step was to take aboard the

philosophy had learnt from DryenGoodwin and apply it to my own work.After spending two days in the darkroom I

managed with the aid of the technicianColin to produce four prints of a finalimage to practice on. I experimented withdifferent mark making strokes and

direction to capture the movement andenergy from underneath the images andphysically warp the print into an

abstracted distortion of the atmosphere I


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Reshoot contact sheet and Fina


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prints For my reshoot I used thesurrounding houses inRochester to carry out mytheme of noise pollution toin city houses. The themestill stayed relevant

however the houses werenot as aestheticallypleasing as the East Londonhouses. I shot a whole roleof film on each of the threehouse to ensure I had acorrectly exposed negativeand this method workedand I will carry this out in

the future.

SummaryFor commissions part 1 witch involved landscape and city projects I tackled to different


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yFor commissions part 1 witch involved landscape and city projects I tackled to differentpolitical and social issues to base my work upon. For landscape I approached theproblem of pollution from airplanes witch was spouted from the statistics that wereinvolving the third runway for Heathrow being built, I looked into my souringenvironment in Kent and what effects the third runway would have on the population. I

wanted to capture a sinister atmosphere from within in my images what I based upshooting planes taking off In populated areas, unlike the pictures type photograph wesee in the media of a plane soring in the blue sky I decided to create much more darkand dangerous feel to the birds of chaos in the sky. I found this project to be thehardest of all three as I had to re shoot two more times after what I had initiallyplanned due to light meter difficulties I was totally out of my comfort zone whenshooting these landscape shots as my prefer form of photography lies within fashionphotography. The week negatives witch I had produced made it very hard to print indark room so I didnt end up with what was in my head. If I was to go about the projectagain I would have photographed different subject matter rather then the planes in thesky as I found it hard to do. In my next project City I set out to capture another form ofpollution in the environment witch was noise pollution in inner city homes so Iphotographer house witch in the east end of London but I could not actually capture the

noise and the images needed another element to introduce this so I used techniques ofDryden Goodwin to scratch into my photographs to show noise and chaos with in thephotographs. MY fist shoot in brick lane ended in a camera fault witch made multipleexposures in my images witch then lead me to reshot in my own town of Rochesterwitch still had exactly the same idea but the house were not as aesthetically pleasingto those in the east end. After going back over the light meter settings with my tutor Ithen took a series of photographs witch came out perfectly exposed. I have found

commissions part one extremely hard due to re shooting and poor light meter settingsit was a stee learnin curve and even thou h the final ima es were not what I set out


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as e ummaryD i k ft l b l d ith h i b d j b d it l k d d


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Drainage workers are often labeled with having a bad job and it looked down upon even so morethen a dustbin man due to the environments and working conditions they have to work around.This ignorant label produced by the public is degrading and and looked down upon by the verypeople who benefit from the drainage workers skills. The job entitles a great deal of knowledge and

skill and a true help to society. The aim I am looking to create within my work is to create anempathy towards the drainage worker through my series. Instead of using portrait photography ofthe worker himself witch I had originally set out to do I found my self consumed with capture thevery essence of the surroundings documenting the trail he left behind of objects that he wasinteracting with uring his work. This created a very ambiguous atmosphere towards the workerwitch I felt works well as the main focus is turned upon the conditions and job at end so we canmore of a perspective into a first person view of what his job entails instead of looking directly athim it provides much more information. This is the first time I have seen myself working in adocumentary style and that is the genre I would catalogue it into compared to what I am used to ofshooting portraits of women in my fashion photography practice and I have really enjoyed it as ithas given me a hole new direction in photography to go into an area and strip back to the raw formof photography and just take images and compositions of the environment in this way. For my finalselected images that was 9 digital inkjet prints that are landscape and would be hanged in a line ona wall I feel it works well as It a journey into the life of a every day experience of the drainageworker. How ever for my three analogue black and white prints as a mini series to accompany this I

do not feel it was as strong due to once again having weak negatives and soft edges due to poorcamera and light meter control, it is an improvement from part 1 of the project but still needs toimproved in the future if I was to re shoot I would have used a quicker shutter speed as shootingwith out a tripod creates hand shake and I did not take this into account on the day of the shoot.The waste project has been my favourite project out all of the units this year as I was encouraged

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