A friend referred me to a news article that reminded him of my photographs I produced as a practice at the weekend. James Chadderton produced some eerie apocalyptic shots of Manchester city central which went on display in a public exhibition last year.
James Chadderton, like me, was inspired by the post apocalyptic scenery in the film 28 Days Later and The Road, which led him onto creating these eerie and derelict images of Manchester city centre. The quality of these photographs is amazing, and no way on God's green earth can I re-create these images, but they are a massive inspiration towards the work that I am trying to attempt for this project.
I love the sheer simplicity of these images, even with the post production on top, the images seem to real that I almost feel that I am in the cityscape itself. I have taken a photograph similar to the one above, and have taken a photograph for my set on loneliness using the same cityscape. Although the photograph above works, it is not the way I want my photographs to look. I want my cityscape to look exactly how it does today, or tomorrow. Clean, crisp and looks like it has just been left.
I want to achieve a lonely feel to my photographs, not a post apocalyptic cityscape so to speak, but a sense of loneliness within the persons mind that is conveyed in my photographs. These photographs have been very inspirational towards my photographic ideas relating to different ideas, but for this assignment, I think that it is best to leave heavy post production like this out of the way!
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