Level 3 Photography Nicola Hampshire

Weather - intermittent showers to torrential rain  Plan to start walking around the perimeter of the pit  over a period of days  tracking my route on an app. Collect 15 pieces of rubbish, photograph insitu, then photograph together in the environment. Today is a hard surface walk using ex-colliery railway line. How long do I need to walk to find 15 pieces? Will it always be the same distance? I left rubbish on the way there so I could record it on the way back and collect in a bag. I will creatively photograph on a drier day. (This map shows the distance required to find 30 pieces of rubbish and return journey so 1.75 miles for 30 pieces. Does the distance increase as the walk leaves the populated area?) Research question Do you see more litter in one direction than the other? I'm not working with the turnip or the numerous dog poo bags. This can be presented as typology. Personally I don't think it is creative enough for me but will be useful to...

We have had an awful lot of rain in the last few days. I went for a walk to look at and count local litter to see what was feasible. Wearing wellies, I slipped over a wet root and fell hard, and managed to break my camera which was in the camera bag. Fortunately I had my phone which I used as a back up camera. As the walk progressed, the route was inaccessible due to very wet sand and slag which I sank into and kept losing my boot. It was reminiscent of being stuck in a peat bog. My next walk will involve some harder surfaces. I have confirmed there is enough litter around to work with.

Whilst having a quick walk (a break from reading), I came across this poster in the local dog walking area (a former pit tip). Unfortunately I couldn't make the date, but it tied in with my current CS  reading. It was advertised on the local council website, together with advice on how to litter pick and a risk assessment.  There are a few litter picking groups in the area. I also found a government publication which supported litter picking by community groups and individuals. I will be referring to this in my critical writing so don't want to say too much here. I'm still thinking about rubbish in the environment. Social / civic pride and responsibility. Trail fairies are male and female. Mother earth - gender? I'm bored with negative images in the news of waste. Have we got to saturation point? I need to create something different for my images and perhaps "create" or performance art is the way to go. Key words to think about: waste, commodifica...

Following a discussion with my tutor, I need to identify my position on dirt / rubbish / waste. I'm currently reading about dirt to try and define the difference between the words. Dirt can be a material object or a concept. Dirt is tied up with identity too. I need to narrow the subject right down because it is huge.  I've grown up with books such as "Stig of the dump", my children love The Grinch, and one of my early memories about travelling by car is seeing a toilet dumped in the middle of the Lincolnshire Fens. Walking the last few miles of the Yorkshire 3 Peaks Challenge in June 2019, I noticed lots of litter, (both compostable and not) in the countryside. I'd been careful that our group took everything with us and managed the waste, even down to finding someone who could take our pulp teacups from the tea waggon  in a car because there are no litter bins en route. At the other end of the extreme is a time recently when "lost" in a true wilder...