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 think some of your photos are abstract. Take for instance the 8th and 10th photos. My question is, what about these photos made them unique enough to post? Maybe there is some sort of memories attached to, for example, that white picket fence. Maybe it was the fence to your backyard and after so many years, you could watch the paint slowly chip off each year, almost like a timeline. See it's those backstories that only the photographer could know but very few viewers could have that imagination.
ReplyDeleteI disagree with the previous comment, I find each of your photos interesting without any context. Something draws me in about that fence, could be the curve of the hill or the intense amount of deterioration on it, but my eyes aren't quite bored. I'm interested in the way the darkness frames the doorway in the second to last photo, I can't tell if it's inviting, or if I feel like I'm about to sneak into someone's bedroom. I also love the way you center certain objects, the first two photos are a good example of that.
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