Author: seeingadmin

OPTION FOUR: The greatest freedom is to have no choice. Make and write down a set of parameters within which you will work. This could be geographic, psychological, thematic or technical. The point is to make very strict and precise choices about how you will NOT work. The stricter the better.

My personal guideline was to take photos of people, both staged and candid. This was a big and somewhat uncomfortable leap for me, as I’m accustomed to mainly photographing inanimate objects. It was hard to ask people to have the permission to take their photographs, but I think it’s becoming something I’m more comfortable doing.

I chose option two, to take a single photograph everyday for 10 days.

I wanted to capture the essence of one’s imagination vs. the truth. Their dream vs reality. !1!!

I took a couple of pictures every day and chose one from each day. I think that taking pictures that would ‘define my life’ is impossible because, technically speaking, I’m not the same person now that I was when I took the pictures. For example, I liked my brother a lot more 5 seconds before I took his picture as opposed to 5 seconds after.

Hello!

For this assignment, I choose option 4, to work within a set of geographical, thematic, and technical guidelines to create a series. I took these pictures over a 2-hour walk from my house to Edgewood Park and back, using only a high-zoom lens (55mm to 200mm), and only of moss, lichen, and fungi.

I worked with the option of telling an abstract story.  The story that I am trying to tell is about togetherness and unity (I need to work on my sequencing though; it might tell the story but it’s not very fluid).