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Evaluation

I feel that this project was quite successful. I chose a theme that related well to the project title and my images portrayed this effectively. In this project, I think that I could have researched more relevant artists and photographers to help my work progress further. Although I was happy with the outcome, I think that if I spent some more time working with the images, they could have turned out a lot better and more interesting. 

The images that I ended up with did represent my theme and my project well and definitely made you think about why there are so many barriers in the city. I think the angles that I took the images from also showed the city in a way that you wouldn't normally look at which makes you think even deeper.

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Exhibition layout

This is how I played my images out for the presentation. I wanted to keep it simple as the question around the project was so complex.

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Final images

These are the final images that I chose for this project:

I think that they represent my theme ‘barriers in the city’ well. They show the divide between man made and natural landscapes that I wanted to show and they make us question why we put up so many barriers in our world.

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Shoot 2

When I did this shoot, I had a much clearer picture of how I wanted to portray my idea. The research I did helped me as it made my idea clearer about how I wanted to show my idea. The last shoot was quite successful so I wanted to replicate a few aspects from it into this shoot. 

The pictures that I took represent my idea well and relate to the theme that I chose for this project. 

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Emilio Cresciani

‘Barriers’ - 2008

Photographed textures of erosion and corrosion of barrier remnants that represent the theme of being lost. He photographed them against the blue Australian sky. 

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Richard Wainwright

‘Borders and barriers’

An ongoing project that looks at how separation walls in conflicts contribute to being a physical and psychological barrier to a ‘positive peace’.

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Aidan Daly

I also looked at this image by Aidan Daly which is similar to the kind of images I want to showcase for this project. I like how you can see through the barrier at what's on the other side. It makes you think about why that barrier was put there and what they wanted to stop people from doing.

“A political comment on a once militarized wall.”

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Gerry Masterson

My photographs from my first shoot were inspired by this image I found by Gerry Masterson:

I think that this image captures my idea for the project well as it is showing a divide between natural and man made.