Urban Earth is a project set up by Daniel Raven-Ellison and it is about walking across an urban area. the walk is documented in a stop motion style putting together photographs taken every 8th step through out the walk. this project works to show the real life in the urban areas.
The city is usually viewed by the media, historic buildings, tourist information and shopping centres and many don't see the city behind the sense where the urban people life. some places are seen as no go areas by the media and represented as violent and dangerous. the project works to repressing that areas as they are. pushing down the barriers and to show people that these urban areas are not that bad.
working to encourage people to venture out in to their urban areas he has done videos in manchester,bristol.mexico,london and many more.
this work is a lot like me work and is something similar that i want to look it to although i don't want to walk from on side to the other through the urban areas i do want to look at the urban life in areas and personal journeys through areas. i enjoy doing projects that relate to myself and find it easier to relate to my work when i make it more personal.
it is interesting how he mentions on his website that each photo is shot looking straight forward because as people walk though cities the get distracted looking at poeple,cars and thing going on around them, most people don't generally just look straght a head of them selves.
his website is urbanearth.co.uk but that its unavalible at the moments he work also appears on
http://thegeographycollective.wordpress.com/
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