The End of Winter
Kull, Martin (2022)
2022
Julkaisun pysyvä osoite on
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2022120125390
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2022120125390
Tiivistelmä
We are all familiar with the iconography and generic images used to visually communicate the climate crisis – smokestacks, polar bears in distress and solar cells. This thesis explores whether a more personal photographic expression of imagery could help us understand our own role in this crisis.
In this regard, the thesis presents a photographic project in the form of three specific visual themes: The End of Winter, Innocent Childhood and From Denial to Engaged. To symbolise the impact of a two-degree temperature difference on our lives (this being recognised by The United Nations in the 2015 Paris Agreement as a significant temperature tipping point), the project includes methods of freezing printed images in the Baltic Sea and then rephotographing them at the same location. Such interventions with ice and sea water turn into a strong metaphor for climate change.
The project is presented with its basis in the humanities and natural science and with a focus on the process to find a visual expression. In the analysis, the project is placed in a context of contemporary environmental art photography, and how the visual outcome relates to different phases of individual climate crisis management.
In this regard, the thesis presents a photographic project in the form of three specific visual themes: The End of Winter, Innocent Childhood and From Denial to Engaged. To symbolise the impact of a two-degree temperature difference on our lives (this being recognised by The United Nations in the 2015 Paris Agreement as a significant temperature tipping point), the project includes methods of freezing printed images in the Baltic Sea and then rephotographing them at the same location. Such interventions with ice and sea water turn into a strong metaphor for climate change.
The project is presented with its basis in the humanities and natural science and with a focus on the process to find a visual expression. In the analysis, the project is placed in a context of contemporary environmental art photography, and how the visual outcome relates to different phases of individual climate crisis management.