I find it difficult to make colour photos of the coast of the southern Fleurieu Peninsula that avoid the all pervasive tourist style of imagery.
The power of the visual image has long been employed to great effect by the advertising industry to sell product. The tourism industry is no exception. It sells leisure, fun and the holiday experience in extra-ordinary locations away from the world of work. Hence the idea of the tourist gaze and the pictures of landmarks, waterfalls, animals, and empty beaches The relationship between commercial photography and tourism is extremely close, if not fundamentally integrated.
How is it possible to make an effective photographic project around climate change and the environment in the era of the Anthropocene is a question I keep stumbling over. It is a question that I have yet to find an answer to.
One option is to photograph in black and white. Another option is explore is to experiment. One possibility here is to harm or damage the image in some way-- eg., in the form of multiple exposure. My double exposure didn't really work. My second experiment was to move the camera slightly during the exposure of this photo of the coastline to Kings Head and Beach in Waitpinga:
Another possibility in harm intervention is mark making in the form of scratching and wounding the surface of the images to speak to the negative impact that climate change is having on nature --- forests, coastlines, wetlands, rivers etc Multiple exposure and camera shift enable me to step outside the tourist style.