For Assignment Two, I have been walking around the industrial estates where I work, collecting items of litter I found.  In response to the exercise on typologies I ordered the items into sub-groups and photographed them on a sheet of plain grey paper, as a way of cataloguing my finds.  I wanted to know if the type of litter found in a certain landscape is reflective of the surrounding human environment.  The project could be presented as it is alongside collections resulting from walks in different areas.

 

I pursued the idea of sunlight affecting the items by producing lumen prints of the objects positioned in a similar way to the above on sheets of photographic paper and left to develop in the light.  This was the first time I had experimented with the creation of lumen prints.  Where possible, I laid a glass frame on the item to flatten it and create a more defined outline.  The weather was changeable while I was making the prints so some were laid on a windowsill indoors rather than outside.

I found that the images produced outside contained a greater range of colours and rain produced an interesting effect that could be explored further for future projects.

However, the effect was lost somewhat once the images were fixed and the colour balance changed.

 

Finally, in progression of my original idea of whether different litter is dropped in different landscapes, I experimented with the idea of incorporating maps into the project, an idea I later rejected as I felt the lumen print images were effective on their own.