LUSAD-Scenes of the Unexpected

Danielle Robertson
The photographs I have taken in Loughborough all represent the unexpected.

A street littered with newspaper. I found it fascinating that there was no one down the entire street except the abandoned newspaper. It created a very odd feeling, in some ways quite peaceful, as nothing could be heard, apart from the rustling of paper moving in the wind. However, in another way it was quite an eerie feeling: why was I the only person around and why was everything so silent. The unexpected aspect I felt were the same questions the viewer should ask themselves when looking at the photograph: why is this paper there, where did so much newspaper come from and why had nobody cleared it up? This quality I tried to capture, but it was hard to capture this with something so simple.

A man skating. There is definitely an element of the unexpected with skating: you don't know when you are going to be able to do a trick successfully and you don't know when you are going to fall over. Nobody plans to fall over and these unexpected aspects inspired me to choose skating as a subject to photograph.
Two images of a man skating; however after being edited and taken out of context of the skate park I felt that they had an uncanny essence to them. The photograph have a strong link to our ancestors; the monkey. From the positioning of the mans body and the effortless facial expression, it gives the viewer a strong sense of the juxtaposition between urban and rural life. The photograph gives the impression that the man is swinging from a tree, which is closely associated with the very specie of which humans evolved. However, because he is in fact a skater and human, the two juxtapose one another creating something of an uncanny nature.