Mauren Brodbeck Analysis.

Mauren Brodbeck is a Swiss multisensory artist and photographer from Geneva, Switzerland whose photographic work focuses a lot on documenting various urban landscapes and societies in Switzerland as well as the human impact on these landscapes and the effects we have on our society, using the formal elements of lighting, tones, colours and compositions. For this artist analysis, I will specifically be looking at her landscape photograph series titled 'Urban Landscapes' in response to the theme of 'Society' for this project. I decided to document the work of Mauren Brodbeck in relation to this theme as I intend to take a series of photographs that document the urban society that I live in and around - such as Croydon, Kingston, London and Bromley - and the impact that we have on our society such as graffiti, street art and the general lack of care we show our society and the environments that we live in as well as the constant changes that we are making to them. This is something that I felt inspired by whilst researching and analysing the work of Mauren Brodbeck as I really like the gritty style that her photographs have through the documentation of the cityscapes and buildings around her as well as the way she highlights specific sections of her photographs through the use of selective colouring and this could therefore be an editing style that I could take inspiration from and reference within my own photographic responses to this project.

Many of Mauren Brodbeck's photographs are kept central using the rules of thirds and long-distance compositional angles in order to document the urban landscapes and the impact that we have on our society. Since Mauren Brodbeck's work is based on creating a series of landscape-based photographs of urban environments in Geneva, Switzerland that may or may not have been affected by human life and nature, the artist takes a lot of photographs of these landscapes to capture the natural beauty of them as well as the changes that have been made to the same landscape over the years.

A lot of the photographs that Mauren Brodbeck has taken in order to create her project are based around various urban landscapes and the manmade beauty of the landscape that she is documenting within her work. She often focuses a lot of her photographic work on the uses of selective colouring by highlighting a specific section of her photograph with a solid block of colour filling in the shape of a building or a construction site that she has photographed. By documenting the landscape using this technique it helped to draw her target audience's attention to a specific element of her society-based photographs, with the focal point being emphasized through the use of leading lines created by the pavement and the roads within the urban societies. This is something that I could potentially take inspiration from within my own landscape photographic work responding to the theme of 'Society' by documenting photographs of the urban society and using the selective colouring technique to highlight a specific element or section of the landscape that I will be documenting within my photographs.

Within my own photographic response I have decided to take a series of landscape photographs that I will use to respond to the theme of 'Society' by photographing the different urban environments of Croydon, Kingston, London and Bromley and the damages and lack of care that humans have for their own society within my photographs, focusing on the grit and grim that the city and town landscapes may have such as graffiti, street art and damages to buildings and the like as well as the changes that we are often making to our own society such as construction sites and the demolishment of buildings.