These two images follow on in the book from 11oven, they are to represent how many lives are affected by the corporate hammer, and oppression on the first two pages. The images although just shows contemporary society, they more importantly want to question how many peoples lives can be fitted into such a small space. I.e. if you were to count up all the different housing containers.
The first image of these two is where the title of the project developed. With both images I have cut out the line of the background and added a new sky - to create contrast with what you actually see.
The first image is taken in London, Tufnell Park and the second England, Luton. I particularly wanted to capture this shot of Luton since the beginning of my project - because it is surrounded by 9 of the most poverty stricken locations in the whole of the UK. This area desperately needs awareness - even in its architecture as a town, its built downwards in a hole - meaning a huge percentage of the sky is lost for the people living there. You psychically cannot see past many of the buildings, creating a lot of shadows and darkness. Combined with the excessive amount of housing condensed in its area, and airport, it creates quite a oppressed place to live.
Overall I am pleased with these two images, and happy to overcome the plainness of the images by adding new skies. I would have liked to shot this project with a wider lens, so particularly the hole that Luton is built in could be seen.
I was slightly inspired by Chris Jordan for these images too, he photographs the excessive consequences of consumption culture. Here I feel I am photographing the excessive culture of housing (boxes).