Damaged and Deteriorated by Isabelle Miller and Georgia Farrell

                            'Damaged and Deteriorated'

                                         By Isabelle Miller and Georgia Farrell

Theme: Public Transport                    Sub-Theme: Damage

Created By: Isabelle Miller and Georgia Farrell

Music: DUST ft. Bijou – ‘Ghost Key’ (2012)  

CC Licensed: Attribution, Non-commercial, Share Alike

The theme for our photo essay is ‘everyday public transport’ with a sub-theme of ‘damage’.  We chose this theme as we believe it directly encapsulates the concept of an ‘everyday aesthetic’ as referred to in the Susan Murray reading, ‘Digital Images, Photo Sharing, and Our Shifting Notions of Everyday Aesthetics.” Public transport, such as trains, buses, the monorail and the ferry captured in our photographs, are part of on an everyday process of instances, events and objects that are overlooked and become part of a routine. Our aim as amateur photographers was to capture a collection of photographs of things that in an everyday environment are unnoticed, and apply various different frames, angles, and effects, through iPhoto to create something aesthetically pleasing and appealing. We selected the song ‘Ghost Key’ by Dust ft Bijou to accommodate the deteriorated and damaged sub-theme of our photo essay, and to add to the character of the photos. Essentially, we tried to make the ‘mundane’ aspects of public transport become noticed and photographically appealing through capturing a different perspective through our photographs and editing.