Research

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.