project proposal

While looking through my previous work I see a common idea of meshing photos together. I like to shoot people and places, such as a person’s environment and what they like to do. Then, I like to use what I have learned to represent them in a new way. For a final project in a previous class, I shot double exposures of nature and portraits on 120mm film. I enjoyed shooting and making prints for the project quite a bit, and have always liked the idea of putting two pictures on top of each other to create new meanings for both of the photographs. I continued this idea of layering photographs when I made a cyanotypes featuring a human figure and photographs of mountains cut up and layered on top of each other to create a new meaning for both of the photos. I feel that creating photos like this has strengthened ideas and creations with fine art photography.

This semester, I would like to learn lighting studio techniques on how to shoot successful, stunning portraits and still lifes. I would like to explore how manipulating a photograph changes the meaning of the content. I enjoy photographing objects and spaces, as well as portraits, of people to truly convey their lifestyle, hobbies, and what they enjoy to do, and I would like to do that for my project. However, I would also like to take it one step further and see how manipulating a photo, on the 2d and 3d levels, can change the meaning of a photograph even further. There are numerous ways of painting and drawing, and each specific style of painting or drawing can convey meaning in different ways. I would like to explore digital and 3d manipulation of photographs in order to convey meaning in the content of the photograph. I feel that my past work has lead me to this idea, and I will enjoy making and changing meanings of photographs.

Timeline:

February 16, Critique 1:

• Have completely finalized, clear direction for project
• Continue thinking about how manipulating of photographs can change meaning

March 9, Critique 2:

• Have 5-12 final images for the project shot
• Start working on manipulating the photographs with digitally and on the surface

March 30, Critique 3:

• Have 12-18 of final photographs shot
• Have at least 10 of final works manipulated on the surface as well as digitally

May 4, Final Critique:

• Have all 20 images finalized through manipulation