My practice drastically changed once going into quarantine. I found it very difficult to have any motivation once being home all the time. This is especially because I was mainly photographing people. I was no longer able to photograph people in the same way, and ended up mainly photographing my brother in different metroparks in the Toledo area. This proved to be a challenge as I could no longer shoot on film either, and my dslr stopped working a week into quarantine. This led to most of my photos being phone pics. With these limitations I tried to play off of weird projects I already had been doing. My photos for mom series are literal phone pictures I have always taken for my mom of my brother and I doing weird things in parks. This also drew off of my idea to make eye-spy type pictures of my brother and I hiding in the trees. The last of my film photos are also stuck as edited TIFFs. I was unable to download photoshop as my laptop has no storage, and the files were too big for...






I have been noticing your work throughout the semester, and this set I am digging a lot. The in 3rds one, loving it for the symmetry, everything is has spaced occupied and very interesting to look at. Last one, "Fuck It" resonates deeply, walk out to the see and leave it behind me. As for film vs phone, look at it as an opportunity for something totally different, while not preferred, trust me, I get you, but the opportunity to create and broaden the horizons is never bad. We all slowly adapt to the circumstances, and not in ideal places, but you are willing to try.
ReplyDeleteYou're definitely the one in the class who doesn't mind being real with her photos. Most of ours, mine included, are posed compositions to try and impose a certain narrative. Your photos are jus that, "so you". I think the last one is especially funny as well! Your photos are also very raw. You don't set your photos up to be staged. To reiterate, you're photos throughout the semester have been always had the "true to yourself" kind of theme.
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