Seminar Evaluation
I presented my seminar today on environmental theory, more specifically focusing on plastic pollution. I felt as though the presentation was well informed and researched in regards to the factual evidence about plastic, and photographers who had devoted their careers to raising awareness surrounding the issue. We chose photographers who each took a different approach, to present a wide variety of artists and their own individual take on the matter. We additionally related these photographers to ethics, and the question of suffering (due to our essay question). Whether these images achieve what they clearly set out to do (raise awareness and promote change), or whether they use the current state of the planet to create aesthetically pleasing and fearfully relatable images. However, through the feedback it was clear that we hadn't researched the environmental theory itself in depth, and related the photographers to this in order to successfully analyse their work. I realised through this feedback that I was unsure about the aspect of the theory and how one relates and uses it to investigate the work. This has shown me that it is important to fully understand what was expected, in order to additionally form my essay. This means it is essential to conduct in depth research on environmental theory, and what it entails. I aim to do just that, and obtain advise on how I would do, and understand this, so I can use this information within my advanced research methods essay