Connecting essay 5

This is an image taken by photographer Ryan Francis in which I find really interesting. Primark; An unethical shop which is known and somehow loved by hundreds of thousand people. Although much like all other shops, or buildings in fact weren't always there before and what many people avoid learning is what was there beforehand? Was is an old family shop which went out of business because people stopped shopping there? Either way, behind every modern building lies a story which was once standing but has now been demolished/ removed from new generation memories. Both of these images are both placed within Bristol which was "bombed so badly during the war" (as shown on the website I sourced the image from), thus showing how in placement of that destruction the modern world of exploitation of capitalism has been able to replace the damage instead. At first sight this image hold denotations of just being a new vs old image. However as already spoken about when viewing the context of how this is the place which was once damaged in the war creates connotations of horrible memories such as death of bombings are modernised instead of being remember in forms of shops- to earn money from the public.

This is an image in which I took during one for my shoots in comparing old images which  I have sourced online and in the library and museum. Even though in terms of composition and positioning I find this one of my weaker images in those shoots, I still find the concept behind the image. In the older image (one at the top) shows a community of people on market day, but there are more people shown than there are stalls, showing the importance of these events. Although when you then look below at the image which I took you are able to see the extent of how the market has grown in terms of the stalls increasing in size, although now the amount of people who actually attend the market is much fewer than what it used to be. I find this an interesting idea because it therefore shows the audience the change in both societal attitudes but also the growth of other productions. Originally the local market was much of the things that there bought, there wasn't a local Tesco they could just pop into. But there is also a sense of social solidarity and community that has been lost though out the years, many people used to go to the market as a "fun" activity as a time to go out the house and spend time with their neighbours. Thus showing the key difference between now and then, people nowadays are much to busy to go out to markets, why would they if it would be a fraction of the price just a little bit further around the corner at the supermarket?

I believe that both these images connect with each other quite well because it shows a clear distinction between old images and what is in their place now. As a whole I find this concept really interesting because obviously not everyone would have been around the time when life was the way it was so to be able to have a comparison put together it can sometimes really put it into perspective to the audience just how much has changed and not just in terms of appearance, also how the behaviour and societal  attitudes have changed.