Discovering Your Environment:
Photography Competition
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The following images are the winning entries from a recent photography competition, organised by BRASS. These images can be viewed in the Main University Building from 17th-21st May as part of "Wales Sustainability Week", organised by the Welsh Assembly Government. To find out more about Wales Sustainability Week, please click here To view events being held by Cardiff University during this week, please click here |
Baby with Plant
Steve Garrett
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Riverside Community Market Association (RCMA) was established in 1998 to set up a local producers' market that would make fresh local food available to the residents of Riverside ( a diverse inner-city community of Cardiff), and to run a range of food and nutrition outreach and education activities in the local community. An important parallel part of RCMA's aim is to improve knowledge about, and access to, a fresh healthy diet in the South Riverside and adjacent areas of Cardiff. For example, the award-winning RCMA Community Allotment Garden attracts people of all ages to learn how to grow their own food and enjoy the social and recreational benefits of gardening. The Community Allotment has two working poly-tunnels where peppers, tomatoes, grapes and auberginesare grown, as well as raised bedsand an accessable pond and wildlife area. There are a wide variety of different vegetables, fruit and flowers grown at the allotment - many reflecting the diverse cultural backgrounds of members. We have all been surprised at the scope of plants that are happy to growin the Welsh climate. Recent additions to the allotment included a solar cooker and a regularly used compost toilet. Some volunteers have been long-term unemployed, lacking skills and confidence, and have said their involvement in the project has helped them in many ways. Volunteers came from all parts of the community and, as project manager Jenny Howell says: "you're never too young to learn how to grow!" |
BillyBanks
Peter Wells
| Billy Banks, Penarth. An infamous landmark on the outskirts of Penarth, the image represents the faliure of planning that blights even the most attractive of our urban environments. Billy Banks is gaunt and grey, with the only colour provided by the warning sign. |
Wind and Play
Linley Jenkins
| This photograph of Tenby was taken in the Summer of 2009, but it could have been taken almost any time in the past thirty years. I often visited Tenby as a child, it is a place that I remember as magical. It was a wonderful surprise to return as an adult and find that the present view matched my memory. All too often beautiful environments changed beyond recognition, it only takes a generation to forget what we have lost. I have blurred the photo to give it a dream like quality, it also produces a 'model village' effect this is intended to give the viewer the feeling that they can reach out and touch the scene. |
Tiny Tenby
Sam Whitfield
Gwenan Haf Griffith
Allyway
Joanna Hobbs
Beach Clean
Hazel Nash
Use Me
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The varying darker colours within the image really show the elements of what the weather can throw at us and its ferocity and intensity, then within the image there are these rays of sunshine in the form of those yellow hi-vis jackets - the protectors of the environment making sure it stays as beautiful as it can for future generations. Although to some this may seem a bit of a miserable image I feel that the contrast of the gray and yellow works really well. It really demonstrates that come rain, wind, storm and of course shine there are still people willing to get out there and give something back to their environment, litter picking is a pretty thankless task but keeping our beaches and environment clear of rubbish is so important people are willing to make a difference no matter what the weather. |
Martin Philip
Paper Mill
Chris Copeland
Recycling Squirrel
| When i saw this squirrel coming out of the recycling bin, i thought the image could be used to promote recycling. Sometimes an image will stick in people's minds, and along with the message associated with it. |
Cerys Ponting
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Pupils from Bishop Vaughan Comprehensive in Swansea visiting Taff Ely wind farm owned by Npower Renewables near Bridgend on a Geography field trip. |
Everest Bear
| This photo represents the ease with which tourism and travel can connect two disparate parts of the world-Wales and Mount Everest (Nepal). For places like Nepal, Eco-tourism can be a vital source of income for the economy and for individuals who otherwise would be unemployed. This reminds us of the need to travel with a light footprint and consider our impacts on local culture, ecosystems and communities when travelling abroad, so that icons such as the Himalayas can be preserved for future generations to experience. |
Julie Newton
Dandelion
| This is a photograph of a 45 acre brown field site situated in the West of Cardiff which used to be the location of Ely Paper Mills. The first mill was opened at this site in 1865 and paper production continued under various companies until the year 2000.
During 2008, after one final appearance in an episode of Doctor Who, all the remaining buildings were demolished, leaving the site ready for redevelopment. It is proposed that some 900 sustainable homes will be built here but in the meantime it is left abandoned with nature slowly encroaching, gradually turning the remains of industry into archaeology. |
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The delicate dandelion amongst a sea of green. A gust of wind, and it'll be gone. I think that this picture captures both the beauty and fragility of the environment. we're often in a hurry to get to places and forget to pause, slow down and appreciate what is around us. The simple and ubiquitous dandelion is not only beautiful but it also has many uses in the kitchen and also has medicinal properties. There is also a growing amount of evidence that shows that looking at green spaces and being in green spaces enhances our wellbeing. If anything, i hope this image encourages you when you're on your way to work or home to slow down and take a moment to notice nature around you. You'll start to feel a whole lot better. |
Jenni Pinnell
Coal
| To some this could just show a lump of coal. I believe that this piece of coal is more than that. This represents an important aspect to Welsh heritage. For years it had created jobs to help provide for hundreds of miners and their families in Wales and has also brought communities together when tragedies had occured (Aberfan 1966). Today it is seen as something so precious as it is a non-renewable source of energy. It is more than that. It is a celebration of a Welsh legacy |
Andrew Parker
Mango
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A Malawian boy enjoys a mango near Mwanza in Southern Malawi. It's probably more delicious than any mango you've ever tasted. And they're plentiful at this time of year. November. But the fruit is seasonal and available for a very short time only: Fairly valuable one minute, worthless the next, and they can't be kept as no-one has money to invest in storage or know how to handle them. The boy is at primary school where Mary's Meals, a school feeding programme, provides a nutritious meal of fortified porridge every school day. For many children, this is the only reliable meal they will get. Malawi is typical of many developing countries . Abundant riches cannot be harnessed through lack of investment. Life can be precarious and go from wonderful highs to desperate lows.
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This photo of a rubbish bin was taken at the National Railway Museum in Chanakyapuri, New Delhi. In addition, the image is symbolic of the virtue |
| This photograph has been created as an attempt to deal with an environment that is in stark contrast to my home in Tudweiliog, North Wales. I am inspired by the city’s landscape, urbanisation, its dirtiness and diversity. The work alludes to the debris of a consumer society. The found objects become memorials to the traces we leave behind. The photograph is composed of the past possessions of an individual person, or area within Cardiff. |
