Concept Of Idea

The concept of my art, started off being about Batman and Gotham City and how it is over run by evil people and criminals and how Batman is the one that is trying to protect the city from them. I am able to link it to what is happening in the world today.

The photographs that I used in my final posters had been taken in Portsmouth and London which are both at the moment facing crimes such as teenagers and children deciding to leave and go and fight in Syria. I chose to include the e images in my final piece so as to show that crime is still a big thing in both of these cities and across the whole of the world.
To compare it to Gotham there isn't a superhero / Protecter like Batman in the real word  that is trying to stop these things from happening. 

Here are some Statistics into All Crime for Portsmouth and London: 

London

(12 months to April 2015) - 709,361
(12 months to April 2014) - 698,753

Portsmouth

(12 months to April 2015) - 17,954
(12 months to April 2014) - 16,924


Most well known Crimes and Criminals in London throughout the years:


Jack the Ripper

Jack the Ripper is the best known name given to an unidentified serial killer or killers active in the largely impoverished areas in and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888.

Attacks ascribed to Jack the Ripper typically involved female prostitutes who loves and worked in the slums in London. The removal of internal organs from at least three of the victims led to proposals that their killer possessed anatomical or surgical knowledge.   

The large number of attacks against women in the East End during this era adds uncertainty to how many victims were killed by the same person. Eleven separate murders, stretching from 3 April 1888 to 13 February 1891, were included in a London Metropolitan Police Service investigation, and were collectively known as the "Whitechapel murders". 

Opinions vary as to whether these murders should be linked to the same culprit, but five of the eleven Whitechapel murders, known as the "canonical five", are widely believed to be the work of Jack the Ripper. 

Most experts point to deep throat slashes, abdominal and genital-area mutilation, removal of internal organs, and progressive facial mutilations as the distinctive features of the Ripper's modus operandi - (method of operation) The first two cases in the Whitechapel murders file, those of Emma Elizabeth Smith and Martha Tabram, are not included in the canonical five.

The Kray Twins 

Twin brothers Ronald "Ronnie" Kray (24 October 1933 – 17 March 1995) and Reginald "Reggie" Kray (24 October 1933 – 1 October 2000) were English gangsters who were the foremost perpetrators of organised crime in the East End of London during the 1950s and 1960s, with their gang, "The Firm", the Krays were involved in armed robberies, arson, protection rackets, assaults, and the murders of Jack "The Hat" McVitie and George Cornell.

Their criminal records and dishonourable discharges ended their boxing careers, and the brothers turned to crime full-time. 

They bought a run-down snooker club in Bethnal Green, where they started several protection rackets. By the end of the 1950s, the Krays were involved in hijacking, armed robbery and arson, through which they acquired other clubs and properties. In 1960 Ronnie Kray was imprisoned for 18 months for running a protection racket and related threats. While he was in prison, Peter Rachman, head of a violent landlord operation, gave Reggie a nightclub called Esmeralda's Barn on the Knightsbridge end of Wilton Place next to Joan's Kitchen, a bistro. The location is where the Berkeley Hotel now stands, on the corner opposite the church.

 In fact Jack D McVitie was also known as a notorious English criminal from London of the 1950s – 1960s. He is posthumously famous for triggering the imprisonment and downfall of the Kray twins. He had acted as an enforcer and hitman with links to "the firm", and was murdered by Reggie Kray in 1967.