Waste Commission appraisal

Waste of life by eating 

I started by looking the uneven balance of consequences produced from fast food mainstream restaurants such as McDonalds, i.e. the land use in less developed countries for more developed countries to have a quick burger. To me this seemed to be wrong. Looking into this and then the numbers animals killed in a year (which was shown in tones not animals) gave me more thought to look into and realise that its the act of wanting and killing the animal which is the waste and the land use is the bi product. 

I chose to take shoot some images that would be challenging to look at by the viewer and not obvious what they are straight away. To do this i chose to take the crop of the image fairly close and confined. 

First Set of images 

First Set of images  

First Set of images  

First Set of images  

First Set of images  

I'm happy with these images especially  the eye and the lip curve, because there's a certain amount of confrontation with the viewer in the eye photo, the print and tone in the lip curve image adds a fetish in the flesh of the pig and isn't straight away clear what its of. 

I wanted to show more repetition in these images which i thought was missing, i wanted to highlight how meat has become a commodity and because its packaged in such a way, and dished out in such a way its lost its connection with where it comes from. 

Idea print two 

This was inspired loosely by Chris Jordan, however not on the scale, i think this is a very visually interesting way of showing repetition however was a pretty challenging method of print and was hard to get perfect, I also thought it lost a certain confrontation  with the viewer. 

Final Prints

Final Set

Final Set 

Final Set 

Final Set 

Again i wanted to place repetition in the image but without loosing the confrontation with viewer i believe ive achieved this with these sets, i want to, if placed in exhibition, print much larger or more on one sheet of paper. The repetition is a big deal i think for this body of work to get across both waste of life within eating meat and waste of meat that isn't used even when animal has been killed. 

Self Evaluation 

Im happy with the images i have come out this project with, i think my visual choice are appropriate for the context of the image, the black and white i believe adds a further distance to what the viewer may be looking at and the use high contrast lighting gives a depth and  sense of the dramatic and theatrical  to the image. 

I think ive managed this project pretty well and approached it from a different angle. After i took the images of the pigs head i want to go into an abituare or store house and get the photos with more repetition in the shot through the lens. However due to the health and safety red tape i couldn't enter these areas, something i need to hastle with them until i can get in. This is the one thing i really wanted and still want to do, as i used Francis Bacon in my research i thought in the abituare i would get very gritty, powerful images similar to the aesthetics of Bacon. Along side of the image by Guy Bourdin. 

Guy Bourdin chapeaux-choc

 

Francis Bacon 

Francis Bacon 

 The way i think i could have improved and moved on greatly would have been the shoot in the abituare as i think it would have more shock value and get across the references i needed to put across. Maybe the size and amount of prints on one print would better both larger and with more images on one sheet. 

I've been approached through a friend at Kingston Uni to put these in a pop up gallery exhibition so for that i may consider doing that, i think that is how the work will really generate interest and a desired response from the viewer.  

The most challenging aspect of my body of work would be the desision to put an end to an idea when it wouldnt work to the level i wanted. I chose to end it rather than waste more time on trying to get something good when i could do something better anyway and still keep the context i desired.