After deciding that high detailed close up photographs weren't what I wanted my final piece to be, due to them not giving a big enough impact affect on the audience which is what I want them to do, so that the audience realise how large scale our waste problem is and that they should think before just throwing something out. I decided to go back to some of the photographers that I had already looked at including Chris Jordan, Edward Burtynsky, Elin Hoyland and Wang Juiliang. The reason that I am looking back over the three of their work and also three new photographs that Chris Jordan created also in his series 'intolerable beauty' is because I have realised that even though still life images produce really nice prints that can go alongside the final piece as support work, they don't give enough of an impact to the viewer because they don't realise the scale of the problem.
What these photographers have done and what I hope to do is produce landscape images of the waste, the reason for doing this is because you are further away from the subject and thus able to capture more of its scale. This allows the viewer to fully appreciate how large some of these waste piles actually are, and thus hopefully make them realise the scale of the problem.
Also many people are quite used to looking at natural landscape photography, but its is something entirely different to complete the same kind of composition but focusing the lens on mans affect on the natural landscape and how now in some places there isn't anything natural seen for miles around just tonnes and tonnes of waste.
You can see Jordan's landscape images of waste that I will hopefully use as inspiration for my next following photographs that hope to produce the same kind of awareness that these do when viewing them.
