Landscape proposal

I intend to research the topographic of the Urban Landscape in my home town of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. I intend to investigate the places I am familiar in an historical context, to find new materials that enhance -or unseat- previous understandings of place and circumstance. I will be using dated maps from the early 1800's to not only see how the town was designed around the industrial era but to also see how it has changed today and what remains on the land to represent these moments in history that shaped our landscape but also our lives today. I will be creating 'straight documentary' photographs using black and white film to pick up on the historical side to the project, but to also create physical documents on print to the largest and highest quality I am capable in the darkroom. I intend one image to be printed in the darkroom at 16"x20" on fibre paper, to pristine quality. This image will be used to exhibit in the Garden Gallery, Gloucestershire. I will select and print the others smaller to add to a portfolio. ​These images will be documents of place and time as well as allegorical moments, a poetic colouring of everyday experience. Picking up on human intervention and our involvement in managing the British landscape, along side the urban-historic Landscape in center High Wycombe. They will work in series in terms of, exposure, camera height, composition and subject, paper printed on and quality input/output.