for this brief I decided that I wanted to go for a theme of construction. This is because my home town, Bury St. Edmunds underwent a very quick transformation that really modernised my home town and I fell this is rings true within Lincoln.
for my research I looked into photographer who mapped city’s and how they changed. I found one Photographer who was particularly interesting called Sohei Nishino. Nishino took around 10,000 photos of London in order to edit down and make into a literal map. this i found interesting because it captures the soul of the city and presents it in a clear and thought provoking way. however Nishino was only my thematic inspiration, my physical inspiration comes from a photographer by the name of Edward Burtynsky
Burtynsky tasked himself with capturing the processes of industry, I liked this also mechanical approach of photography and wanted to implement it using a similar theme, the theme of construction.
Edward Burtynsky’s website http://www.edwardburtynsky.com/
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