Inspiration for shoot

The photographer who has influenced my royal docks image is Romain Veillon, he is a French photographer who mainly photographs derricked and decaying buildings. When looking at his images I liked the atmosphere he caught in his work, it is something I had hoped to achieve in my own images for this project. 

Veillon has used the natural light coming in through doorways and large windows to make the image seem light a fine oil painting, all the colours blend very well with each other like how he has used the natural lines of the sand to draw your eye to certain parts of the image it creates its own frame within the image in the series sands of time.

In addition to this my group all had their own photography inspirations with a similar theme.
They had similar key points to the images, such as dramatic architecture, big empty open spaces that felt a like they would normally be filled with people.

this is something that we come to realise when taking trips to our location and surrounding areas, we decided to go at different times of day on different days to ensure it wasn’t just empty on the first day we went to scope the location.

We kept bringing up amongst ourselves that the area felt very new and well designed yet empty when it came to community, which left us feeling like the area was very disconnected.
there weren’t many corner shops or big supermarkets either we didn’t come across any community centres or anything like that there was a lot of hotels and parking lots as well as many new builds being put up, when getting deeper into certain places we found unused buildings waiting to be knocked down making the whole area seem very juxtaposed with the new and the old.

This further motivated me to style my images to be taken in such a way to portray the emptiness in the area but still try to create a narrative to make the viewers question the image or the atmosphere in the image, like Veillon had done in his series.