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Industry: The Re-definement into beauty 

Throughout our photo essay we have established a theme of urban beauty, focussing particularly in that of the industrial, previously assumed ‘rough’ elements of our city and history. Murray (2008) discusses how the social boom of “easy-to use” (pp.151) film cameras pushed a divide between amateurs into brackets of serious amateurs and those that only documented special events and almost sensationalised everyday life. Technology such as social media and Flickr invite the human element in and critically influence the way in which these images are digested. Our intent was to return photography to its raw form and highlight the beauty in the mundane, where photography formerly grounded itself. We chose to visit industrial hot spots such as Redfern, Newtown, St Peters, Alexandria and centre our process on using angles, focal length and apertures to capture these seemingly old and at times abandoned components of our city’s everyday life and history, to elevate them and exhibit that the ordinary is what makes the city intrinsic and wholly beautiful. Edith Piaf by Jungle Weed offered a fragmented experimental feel to the original piece. Parallel to the theme of the Photo Essay, the song provoked his empowering historical and classical feel to the piece, illustrating the detriment of an almost timeless environment. Industry itself like the classicial song however worn out will always be seized by society as an opportunity for revamping to create something anew.

By Jessica Shaw
Murray, S (2008) Digital Images, Photo-Sharing, and Our Shifting Notions of Everyday Aesthetics. Journal of Visual Culture August 2008 vol. 7(2). 147-163.