Somewhere in Siberia by Pamela North

 

“Somewhere in Siberia” is a series of images created by Pamela North that explores urbanisation and its impact on landscapes and landscape photography. The series expresses how human influence and society, has affected previously untouched natural landscapes.  She mentions the series is to emphasise how vast the human imprint on the world is.

 

The image "Pembrokeshire" represents the calmness of natural environments, although the fence in the foreground represents human input in the landscape that also interprets a sense of ownership. You can say that the photograph has been tainted by human presence.

 

Pamela North has captured images that allows us to see urbanisation of natural landscapes first hand, yet the series of images are shot in a way where we as viewers can visualize and imagine the landscape how it once was before human influence.

 

"The Desert Village" below, also signifies a landscape, which is neither completely urban nor natural, but a combination of both, similarly to that of the image “Pembrokeshire”. The natural environment is the central element in the image, yet the urban aspect is just as significant to represent urbanisation. The isolation of the location, and the nomadic nature of the inhabitants, determines the level of urbanisation.

 

As a viewer of Pamela North’s series, I believe her main objective is for people to realise the impact society has on the natural world and for people to understand the effects of urbanisation, not only the genre of landscape photography, but also the natural environments we live in.

 

 

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