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. The song choice was very organic to our theme, much of modern pop is very superficial. We felt an older style, more sophisticated melody fit the tone of our images, which had minimal manipulation and were of historic nature.
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.
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