This project is about representing how noise pollution affects birds specifically focused on birdsong and how faint birdsong is in areas with high noise pollution. Through research I discovered how noise pollution can have a huge impact on birds by affecting their ability to forage for food, raise young, communicate as noise pollution blocks low-frequency bird song causing them to sing at a higher pitch and can even lower a birds life expectancy. These factors are impacts not often thought about when considering what factors impact on birds and animals therefore it felt important to create a project that brings this aspect to light. I found it important to consider my impact on the environment while producing this collection of work, so I tried to create images with minimal impact to the environment through environmental and sustainable projection methods. The project was produced using a PLA pinhole camera and a cloves developer to minimise the impact of the darkroom processes used within analogue photography. Cyanotypes and botanical toning have been used during the production process to represent the audibility of birdsong in a range of location through the representation of spectrograms and their visibility within the image. When viewing the images in their current form as triptychs you will notice the spectrogram becoming more visible as the landscape becomes a less noise polluted area.
