For this assignment, choose a theme or subject that you will conceive, shoot and process, in black-and-white, attempting to bring out the monochrome image qualities of form, tonal contrast and texture, perhaps also experimenting with key. To accompany the final images, which should number between about 5 and 10, write an account of why you chose this particular theme or subject, what you set out to achieve from the point of view of black-and-white imagery, and to what extent you feel you have succeeded.
Theme
I chose to follow a theme that I started prior to this assignment in some work I produce for myself related to urban decay, but with a twist.
Urban decay is a modern term which to me is ascribed to the dereliction and dilapidation of previously inhabited, or occupied, modern-day structures. I want to examine the relationships between this more modern genre, historical disuse, the unwanted and the unkempt areas and settings within the environment, the reclamation by nature and the abuses inflicted upon these sites by sections of society when they are abandoned.
RAF Greenham Common is both a historical and modern setting for the investigation of this idea. Historical in the sense that military use of the site pre-dates the airbase, but came to full fruition in the mid-twentieth century, it is now a protected ancient monument with residual structures, and because the entire area has been deconstructed and is being returned to its pre-WWII state.
Aim
Having lived in the area of Greenham Common for over forty years, it has been a significant geographical site in my life for a considerable time. The images that I’ve researched are somewhat limited in their content, presumably due to security restrictions, and the vast majority that are available in black-and-white are of limited size and quality. However, my aesthetic reasoning for wanting to use black-and-white for this project is linked to the more infamous celebrity of the site to do with the nuclear arsenal that was once kept there. Clearly synonymous with the cold war, the images that are evoked with me are always associated with the public information and military training films of that era, which were part of my life as a younger man, and were always in black-and-white; a very potent format for depicting the ultimate horror of nuclear war. I see this subject, with black-and-white as the format, as a continuation of those evoked images and the somewhat ‘nuclear aftermath’ impression some of the new images possess.
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