For my AS Photography final piece I a working on the theme of conflict, I have chosen to do this as I also want to work with photojournalism, doing this will help me add a story behind the photographs I will take and also make a powerful image for anyone seeing it.
The history behind the theme of conflict is to involve conflict and the effects it creates on people and places around the world. Conflict photographers that find themselves in positions where they can take powerful images can also put themselves into harmful situations and in some cases being killed to get the images they dreamed of.
The influences for my ideas are Brexit, I have chosen this as it is going to go down in history and it has all gone down to the older racist generations that know nothing about it they just want to get any race or culture out of England that isn't white, I want to focus on taking images of violent men with English flags being held or round them. Brexit will have a high chance of driving England into the ground in the future with no plan on how to get out.
I also want to work around the conflict between the working class on rough estates and the upperclass with their own houses in nice areas, to show the conflict between life being rough compared to how some people have it lovely, also the conflict on single mothers from council estates and rich mothers with horses.
the influences for my photography are Jeremy Deller & Charlie Phillips. I have chosen these as they show conflict between working class and also ethnicities, not just war and violence. Charlie Phillips had done a project and had a photograph between a couple of a black man and a white women in the 60s when this wasn't aloud and racism was heavily being used upon black people, this is very inspiring because Charlie has taken it into his own hands to show people that it is okay and it is time to end racism by portraying photojournalism inside the photograph.
The techniques I wish to explore when creating my final piece are photojournalism and documentary photography so that I can tell a story and hopefully get a powerful piece as an outcome to show the conflict in the working class and the upperclass. I also want to either use the perfect lighting inside a film camera for a more gritty look or use black and white for a dark element inside the photograph.
I aim to present my final image by halving two photographs into one of the working class and the upperclass so that they create a conflicting image by acting upon each others present inside the photograph so people can see the conflict between the two.