13 Dec London Air Pollution Photo Series
My submission is an entry to the BBC’s Student Visual and Photo Journalist of the Year.
The specifications are quite wide, with only a few limitations and rules on what can be submitted, which I presume is so that entrants can provide a variety and showcase different talents if wanted.
The rules state:
“This category seeks to recognise the best student journalism using visual storytelling – photography, graphics, design, or animation. Entrants will need to submit three examples of work they have produced while in full- or part-time education and published or broadcast in media aimed either solely or predominantly at a student audience.”
I have therefore chose to submit three pieces of work – a photo series video (1 minute) with an accompanying soundscape of sounds of London’s major air pollution contributors (The Tube, people, cars). The photos have not been cropped and therefore are not 1080 (full screen).
Accompanied are two photos from the series which serve as the centrepieces of a narrative, showcasing how London can be busy, beautiful and yet so hard and damaging, contributing to the Earth. One is a standard photograph, the other is an edited graphic photo – a panoramic image, made up of 9 of my photos, manipulated to look like a globe, showcasing our incredible efforts but damage to the environment. Both are intentionally edited to showcase the dirt, grit and vintage nature.
All photographs are my own, and the soundscape produced is also mine, therefore it is free of any legal issues. There is a story that accompanied the photos, that we ran as part of the Journalism live-show, but there is no option to submit accompanying stories, only the photographs with an aim to let them tell a story by themselves.
