George Georgiou Fault Lines

 

The images denote parts of turkey and showing how new buildings are coming up and the impact that they are having on the community as the country becomes modern. The images of the buildings are shown to be taken with a wide-angle lens to show more of the context of the area, while some of the portraits are taken close to the subject. George Georgiou work is designed to highlight the differences that can occur, this is connoted by the way he has positioned the camera in different parts of the areas and allowed the area to speak. The message coming from his work is important to understand how people from this country might go over there to understand the impact on people’s lives. His work is about the tensions of the divide as Turkey is the border to Europe and the Middle East two contrasting areas. The divisions include modernity and tradition, secularism and Islamism, democracy, and repression—often in unlikely and contradictory combinations. These divisions are a huge problem as there are parts of Turkey and Muslims (Shura)that want democracy and you have others in the east who think democracy is a waste of space.

I am affected by the viewer with the images highlighting the huge divide with the half on the left showing a well built up and a rich location while the half on the right shows neglect and negative space and these shots show how the west of turkey are rich and the east is poor and with problems.  I am fascinated by how the shots are almost like the Berlin wall was hidden with the problems that occurred in Germany with the west being rich and the poor being the east. As viewer I am also affected due to how the images being empty impacts the eye showing the wealth divide which can make the viewer feel upset.

The work is significant to my project as it highlights the problems the communities faces and the work allows buildings to be captured at different angles. The work stands out as being different from what I have seen as this work is about a social documentary scene. I like how the composition has been layed out with the selected images showing nothing in detail but capturing an establishing shot of the local communities and how they are dealing with life.


The strengths of this work are important to understand how changes are impacting small local communities in turkey what I am going differently compared to what has been photographed is change it to bridges. The strength of it showing another aspect that I can work on for my project with making it to link with new and old, this would work for my project if there were no major travel restrictions in place.

The visual styles that I am planning taken forward are the way the work has been presented with the angles shown in the detail of the image when it comes to the bridges showing at another viewpoint. This might end up happening but given that I am working with the film it might not be possible to get at every angle. I will be offering a viewpoint of Ashford and Canterbury’s bridges and not what is going in this location.

The indented audience is for people of the area to show how the town and country have been progressing over the years with new meeting old, the work is contemporary showing the area what the lives about showing the poverty. The images are important as it captures how turkey has changed over the years.

The context that I have seen this work in has been on my laptop which makes the images look flatter and not interesting compared to if they were placed in the gallery. The use of the gallery will make the images stronger as it will be able to show the journey that has been undertaken with the viewer being able to relate to the text shown.