A key part of my research has come from the book 'Is Britain Great', this photographic journal highlights the modern British landscape. It particularly reveals how the landscape is composed of juxtaposed architecture; evidence of the traditionally rural lies next to industrial megaliths.
Though the book is constructed for the purpose of humour, it is starkly honest and cynical.
The sheer bleakness of many of the images does well to dispel the rosy nostalgia for 'Old Britain,' in place of which it documents what the politicians coined as 'Broken Britain'.
Through my final piece I hope to illustrate this foreboding and decayed atmosphere.
In terms of the brief I find that this response is most appropriate, as much of my work attempts to portray some implicit narrative or sense of atmosphere.
I also endeavour to instil some social commentary in my visual responses, but wish to improve this to a greater extent in future.
In addition the forum Secret Leeds has an expansive archive of forgotten and neglected architecture thorough Leeds, I aim to use some imagery to inform my composition.
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