06 - TASK - Globalisation Research

Globalization is a term which describes the act of an economy or society spreading 'globally'. A prime example of this is the sushi chain 'Yo Sushi'. There are hundreds of these eateries popping up all over the UK, and yet this was something that up until recently was a japanese thing. Japan pushes out alot of its cultural and societies to the world.

A photographer who has visually commented upon the issue of globalisation and hints of capitalism is Andreas Gursky. Producing, incredibly large scale, colour imagery, he often shows scenes of great gathering in multicultural gatherings, mainly in business and economical matters. An example of this is his piece of the trading on the stock exchange floor.

He shows hundreds, thousands of people, all going about the daily business, but with it being on such a large scale, individuals are still indistinguishable. They appear tiny within the image and make you look at the entire scene rather than focusing on the individuals and what they are doing. These images seem as though they could commenting on several things, with the main being it could be commenting on the unimportance of the individuals in todays society, wether your in or out, somebody else will be there to step in and take your place, if you die only members of your family are affected, the world still continues as if you never existed. Or he could be commenting on how we all need to come together and enforce/embrace globalisation to ensure that together we can all move forward, together, as one.