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Josie Kennedy Final

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 any free TIFF to JPG. So some of my favorite photos of this semester are screenshots off of my laptop of the edited film photos. All of these issues have been showing me that no matter what I can continue to keep making work of some manner. It has also really showed me that photography is fun, but definitely not the artistic pursuit that I am most passionate about. Most of quarantine I have really only looked forward to painting or drawing. 


I think learning to love my prison might be useful in making work in observing the small details of life. I think that is why I loved painting so much. For me, painting was able to be a  meditative state in which I could distort and change reality while observing and honoring the prison I live in. Photography during this time was a way to document the recurring days that lasted in isolation. I also learned I really dislike blogger's format, and maybe I should spend some money on an easier website.


Here are my favorite photos I took this semester: All of them except for the very last photo are on film. There is a set that I was never able to show before because of the said issue of them being tiffs, to which I simply screenshoted and I tried to crop them but Blogger literally set them back to their original and I am unable to crop them now. Blogger and I have a hate-hate relationship.



























 
  

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  1. Toni MorrisMay 16, 2020 at 3:40:00 AM EDT

    Hi Josie! I know what you mean about not being able to take photos of people in the same way, I was also taking photos people before the pandemic and now with social distancing it does make going about these photos different! The picture of the man in red I think is such a nice photo and I really like the first one as well! I think the shadows in your photos are taken nicely and I have also been taken photos of my sister, I think it will be special to have these photos!

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