Critique 1 – Will K.
As I said in my post in Random Assignment 1, I want to try to take photos of urban environments that feel especially desolate and futuristic, yet nostalgic of the era of the early 2000s, and the mentality of an “urban hell”. It’s hard to describe the feeling I want my photos to evoke, but I would like them to be something lonely and nostalgic, like a walk through an old vacant mall, or looking at an overly-sci-fi’d commercial from the early 2000s.
Over the course of working on this project, finding spaces to photograph that evoke the right kinds of feelings has been challenging, and I would like to try to find new cities and areas that would be good subjects to photograph. I also want to try and improve on finding angles that display the best possible configuration of the urban environment, background, and any objects (trees, poles) that happen to be in the frame.
Oblivious
Critique 1 — Indecisive
Textures
The story of human relationships as told through some toys on a sagging table
The Story of a Debater
Griffin’s Tale of Shoes
To tell my story, I attempted to limit myself to expressing emotion and diversity through legs and shoes. Oftentimes, I find that people express a hidden aspect of their character through their shoes, so I attempted to capture it by forcing the eyes of the audience onto it. However, the rules that I set out in the beginning were probably too strict, not allowing me the freedom to express some complexity.
Rules:
- no torso or upper body
- must be of people waiting in line
- capture some oddity, identity, or emotion
Telling Stories—Will C
This was a strange dream I had recently, including golf, flying, and an early awakening. Some of the photos wouldn’t upload due to some HTTP error so I’m trying to figure that out.
Cooper Telling Stories: Escape
OPTION THREE: Tell a story with images that you make and put together, one after another, to recount something — be it abstract, conceptual, documentary or journalistic. You can follow one person, a group, a place. Inside or out. It can be very vast or very small. It can be realistic or abstract. As opposed to OPTION ONE above, this should be something real, though it can be abstract, like a feeling. Each image should add something that hasn’t been seen in the images that precede it, meaning the selection should be coherent.
In this collection, I attempted to create a first person narrative of someone who experiences a monotonous urban landscape as the backdrop for their everyday life and their break from this scenery, perhaps through a dream.
