Connecting Essay 4

This is an image which is taken by Robert Adams which I find really interesting. As mentioned in my Photographers Research blog on my research of Adams, his work underlines the movement defined as the New Topographics, who's work is also combined/ similar to the work of photographers sch as Lewis Baltz. For this particular image, I really find the simplicity of the work very interesting. This is because many passers by of this location by think- juts another building site lets carry on walking- with no specialities. However, the way Adams has positioned the image in really intriguing because it has created a depth of field effect, the wooden part is in the foreground which at first is the main focus of the audience, although in the background the audiences eye move across and find quite an empty bit of land with a couple houses on. I think this is an important image in part of Adams series because the main idea/ reason behind his shoots were to show the audience the damage in which industrialisation is having on landscapes. In the case as shown here display it shows how the building of houses is damaging landscapes- taking away the beauty and replacing it with homes.

This is an image which I took for my second shoot of ruins and the history of Waltham Abbey. When I first presented this image, I was asked why I didn't just take the image of the church, leaving the wall out of the frame, to which I responded with it shows two different part of history in one image. When you research the wall as shown in this image, it used to be a wall which surrounded the whole church grounds and on the right of me when I was taking this picture was the gateway to enter Waltham abbey, although as it is clear here the wall is no longer complete due to the time it was built in. So I decided to have the wall in the foreground because I believed it created depth into my work because I was able to gain another element to my image of texture. If I were to have step to the left a little bit and cut out the wall, the texture of the church wouldn't have been clear because of the distance it is from me. Therefore in a picture of the church I wanted to show the age and historic mark that it does actually have on Waltham abbey

As a whole, I have already mentioned in my photographers research the impact and influence in which Robert Adams has had on my project. I do believe that these two images connect really well together because they both hold the depth of field element. Even though one is showing a building work in the foreground and the other is a wall, I still believe it holds the same connotation of showing the difference- the first image by Adams displays the damage that things such as building is having on the landscape whilst my image shows how something which used to surround the church in protection has be damage through the extent of factors such as the war and the public/ council not taking care of the ruins so has slowly been lost and decayed away and is now ignored and forgotten much like what will happen to the location in the image by Adams as slowly houses will scatter across the land taking away that natural beauty.