Woodcroft wildspace VS human invasion.






Woodcroft wildspace is one of the rear green quiet places in London where nature still remaining untouched by the humans. The beauty of this place is in all these wild bushes, trees and flowers, moles, squirrels, birds and worms which live in the ground. Also humans take care about bees in the territory of the wild park. 

My aim is to show people through photography that we need this place, we need part of the wild life in our business concrete jungle. I investigated some individuals working in the same field as mine and found interesting work named POSTCARDS FROM THE FUTURE by photographer Robert Graves and architect Didier Madoc-Jones. These artists created pictures showing London in the possible future after global worming takes effect. In their work you can see flooded streets of London, Thames came out from its banks, refuges from different countries settled each and every square metre in the centre of London – there is no free space except in Buckingham Palace. 

  

















When you see something like that, involuntarily you ask yourself a question – why? Why it happened? Why it’s like that? I think it is very effective way to influence people which pretty much works. It makes people to realise and think deeply about the problem. That is exactly what I would like to do making my project. We need wild spaces like this one and if we have chance to keep it, we should keep it. I would like people to understand the meaning of this wild space. I made pictures of Woodcroft trying to show the beauty of this place. I wanted to underline not pleasant things which might happen with this beautiful place of nature showing the place like it is and possible houses, cars and children playgrounds placed there. 

My first work didn’t look very nice and real. Houses and cars were looked to dark according to background. I amended the brightness and tried to make them to look as real as possible for now. 

In my opinion the last picture with the ball shows the best possible comparison between the nature and human invasion. That style of pictures attracts more attention of people because of strong contrast between two areas.

All my work, I would say, is not bad. Pictures are showing comparison between the nature and human invasion but it’s not probably enough to impress people. Some of the pictures are looking very happy and far from awaking sadness and unpleasant thoughts. I think my work should have more fear in it, fear to loose something which we are really in need and probably have more straight and cold contrast between original picture and photoshoped one.