Genre: This photo is staged and has been manipulated digitally. Overall this has been done to capture the surrealism of the photo. ‘A 20th century movement of artists and writers who used fantastic images and incongruous juxtapositions in order to represent unconscious thoughts and dreams’ (Buckley, 2017 ). This photo is symmetrical and incorporates innovative features, this has occurred through playing with scale and trying to capture the symbols within the photo. The main symbol that is pulled out is ‘and we keep crushing it’ the relationship with nature, in particular trees and humans and how the photo has been manipulated digitally to play with the additional theme of the“hand of god”. Composition: This photo’s main focal point …show more content…
With the use of colours used your eyes move up through the arm the main ‘body’ of the photo and thorough the individual lines of the fingers. This creates a Naturalism approach to the photo. Symbols: This photo portrays a dominance that man kind tend to have towards nature, the symbols in this photo are the numerous trees and nature and the perspective that is given of, of the trees being rooted up and tied down, showing that there is no escape from humans. The words “and we keep crushing it” represent just this. We abuse our natural world. Overall, the hand tends to be playing a god like figure however, it is not god like. Formal Elements: There is a change in colour within the trees and plants throughout. The line within the picture is a natural intersection that creates line/shadow this is also reflective through the tone of green to grey; earth to sky. The shape within the photo is repetitive of organic shapes that all have a round aspect to them. The scale of the photo is the resemblance of the ‘hand of god’ the trees are smaller than the hand showing how easily nature is over powered. The depth of this image is white and black, this holds the viewers eye at the front giving the impression that the photo goes on