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 really enjoy your take on portraits and how you made it more than just someone siting in front of the camera. I really like your second image under photos for mom, the way the lines of the tress consume most of the image and you see a person way off in the distance that almost blends into his surroundings; it is very intriguing. Your self portrait is intriguing as well; you placed your self in the act of doing something and it is hard to identify that that is you in the picture which I really like. By doing this you make the self portrait intriguing and mean more. I also like the use of color with your red shorts that stand out against your surroundings.
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