These are my final images in response to this article. In the article it talks about prolonging human life and how that would cause overpopulation, and I wanted to represent that somehow. In the end I decided to represent it with shoes as that is what I had access to.
I think the pictures came out well as they're quite bright and colourful and I always want my photos to look like that, despite the fact it's representing a bad thing.
I took lots of different shots of the same pile because I wanted different angles to it and to have the camera focus in different areas.
In this final photo I thought I'd line the shoes up to try something different. I wanted to show all the different coloured shoes which I think I've done well. I found it hard to get the angle right and I think there's a lot of blank space which I'm disappointed with, but with the overall photos I'm pleased.
My article was on how scientists are trying to extend human's life expectancy, and the effects that would have on the world. The effect I was most interested in was overpopulation, as if everyone was to live to 200 then the world would be seriously overcrowded.
I thought I could try and represent this by showing piles of things, the things representing people, my first thought was shoes as it's something I have access to.
The piles of things is quite similar to the photos of the holocaust, as they stripped people of all their belongings and put them all together. I think the holocaust is a good example of humans beings self destructing and I think prolonging our lives to 200 years is another, but less extreme, example of that.
I think these photos are really sad to look at because now we know what these people had to go through, and the photos I'll be taking don't have any history behind them, it's just a prediction of what the future could be like, whereas these photos are evidence of what has happened in the past.
