The title for the photojournalism assignment was 'The Past Reveals the Present'. This was meant to challenge the student in producing a story in picture form of a historical event that has meaning in the present day.
There where three main ideas I wanted to explore:
1. North South Divide
2. All Roads lead to Mancunia
3. The Faithfully City
The North South Divide - I had recently read a story in the tabloids that had presented the old stereotype categorisation - North being poor the South being rich. The story presented facts that the recession in Britain was having more of an effect on the North than the South. Shop closures in cities and towns was more prevalent in the North, with Blackpool having the most closures. I had the idea of taking images of the town centres of the worst effect areas.
All Roads lead to Mancunia - Watching the daily migration of cars winging their way to the centre of Manchester made me think of how the working life has changed. Due to technology, vast amounts of the population travel great distances to work. New terms have been invented for this phenomonom - the commuter, rush hour and road rage to name a few. The ideas was to take a twenty five mile radius around Manchester and photograph this daily morning and evening commuter occurrence.
The Faithfully City - My home town of Worcester is steeped in History. It obtain the title of ' The Faithfully City' due to allegance to the King at the time of the English Civil War. A major battle was fought at Worcester where troops loyal to Cromwell won. King Charles II escaped to France after this battle. The idea was to photograph the areas of the Battles and show how evidence can still be found around the city of the loyalty shown to the King.
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