Time

"Let's Time Travel!" - Photo by Jay Tapp. Cuba Street, Wellington. 

Final Images
Final Proposal

For this project I chose to mix the past with the present, and to portray this I photographed buildings in Wellington. I had a long hard look at our city’s buildings and found the perfect street. Cuba St, just passed the Manners mall side. While I was looking down this street I noticed that there was an even amount of old buildings, mixed with entirely new ones. The first building I noticed was the old Bank of New Zealand building. I did research on this building and it was completed in 1913, almost 100 years later it now has been completely transformed, with a new interior being Burger King, and there’s a whole new apartment building that’s been placed/built on top of it which does not communicate well with the building below. Walking down the street, the scenery looks very similar with the buildings above most probably being that of the same age, possibly even older.

The key words I chose to pursue for my shoots were time, time travel, society, history and culture. I think I was successful within my images because they all clearly showed this in one way or another. All my photos were from a point of view, shooting at a low angle from the ground compared to the size of the building. 

Old Bank of New Zealand Building w. Burger King 

Left Image: I chose to put this photo in my slide because it gives off the clear view of the old building, mixed with the new building directly on top of it, portraying time historically.

Right Image: This is a good example of using people, clearly the top part of the building is old and ancient, no one would even believe there's anything inside because it looks like it's been there for years, but as you look down you see the shop "Cheapskates", probably one of the most modern skate shops you'll find in New Zealand, this photo shows how a very old building can change itself over time.

Left Image: This photo I quite liked and thought it would fit because I felt I needed a close up of this street. I found this entrance on one of the buildings and noticed that the gate was very old or had an old and ancient art form style in it (possibly rococo or gothic). Then you look past the gate and you notice that it's a very modernistic style to the interior. A great example of how past time architecture can be mixed with present time architecture.
Right Image: This is the back view of the buildings, I like the graffiti artwork showed in these photos because it tells a sad story of how over time, the building was just forgotten and tagged on by street art. But then you keep looking up and theres a brand new building where people would get confused, wondering why that is even up there or why it makes sense. 

This is my last photo that I put in slide. I put this photo in because unlike the other building there we changing over time vertically, these 2 buildings show a change in time horizontally being right next to each other. The building on the right we can all tell is obviously modern compared to the one on the left side, which is the Columbia Private Hotel which was constructed before the 1900's. 




My research findings on the buildings I photographed, just to get the sense of the history and to know the exact story of "time" within this street I captured.


http://www.historic.org.nz/TheRegister/RegisterSearch/RegisterResults.aspx?RID=1338&m=advanced


http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=EP19090508.2.14.3