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i like this photo only for the story behind it...
I've been to Lacanau on holidays, without my tripod. My brother joined us 3 days after and i asked him to bring it along because I found some shots to take by night.
Finally, he brought me the tripod without the little thing that link the tripod to the camera....
@ Lacanau
Conceptual photography (CONCEPT #1)
For this image, I was trying to convey a sense of change in life. In the photo the rail road of the train perfectly describes it. With having the unknown in front of us and having to move forward to see what the other side holds.
The central idea of my series is that the items in our pockets paint such a picture of ourselves that you can almost see the person in the items themselves. That what we have attached to our keys can reflect directly on our personality. That the condition our wallet is in can display what kind of “ruggedness” we tend to be placed in.
These photos display the main point of my series by having bits and pieces of a person’s personality displayed in the items they have and even how they hold them in their hands. For example in photo #1 how this individual is balancing his phone on his fingertips not worrying about its potential to brake, whereas the individual in photo #5 is holding all of his items in like a closed bowl. How one person is careless of what they own and the other values it. At the same time the keys in photo one attached to a carabineer gives the impression that this person is an outdoorsy type. In photo five how it is but a single car key can show how this guy may be older and more laid back in his activities. In photo three we see a purple key and some ear phone, displaying a kind of artsy person.
Final conceptual series artist statement
The central idea That I wanted to convey in my series was the emotions of addiction and especially the isolation. I think that addiction is mostly due to feelings of loneliness, isolation, depression, and anxiety. I believe that all addicts, no matter what they are addicted to, have pre-existing issues that attribute to addiction, and I wanted to convey these emotions with my final series.
In order to demonstrate this, I took pictures of a couple of my friends in different positions, to see which one would best convey the theme of my series. I used chains to symbolize both addiction and depression/isolation at once. In several of the photos, there is a guy holding a beer or liquor bottle, obviously representing alcoholism. All of my pictures are in black and white, to convey the negative emotions that accompany addiction. I chose my location along abandoned railroad tracks, which add to the loneliness and isolation of the series. Instead of using my models to act, I tried to rely on my ideas and composition. I think that the coloration and the location really added to the overall effect of the photos.
OK , IM PUTTING THIS INTO GUESS WHERE VANCOUVER , but anybody guess where this is , was never built , not sure what it was supposed to be , i found it a few years ago
Processed with VSCO with b1 preset
““How do you keep doing this?” he said “Keep going when everything is so horrible?””
mark warren jacques and i have a split show opening at stumptown in downtown portland, this 1st thursday may 7th,
we are showing a series of controlled collaberations and new individual work.
PERSPECT: ironically use for conceptual in batch 3. This photo focuses on the arrangement, colour, and texture of pebble formation. Note the complementary theme: orange and teal, white and black, forming together in a unifying swirling formation.
The central idea of my series is moving on. This concept is close to my heart because three months ago, I moved away from the only home I had ever known. Moving on is about so much more than just stopping something and starting again new. It is about why you moved on. It is about how you came out of your shell, your comfort zone, and you tried something new, even if it was hard at first. When I first moved to Westfield, I was all closed up and I kept to myself. I was afraid that if I let go I would lose everything I had left behind, and not get anything in return. But when I finally opened up, I found out that it was ok to let go of the past, I just had to move on.
The work I did in my series demonstrates my ideas through my use of flowers. I first thought of using flowers for my final series when I was looking back at previous pictures I had taken. Searching for another photo idea to write down for my proposal, I decided that I could use flowers for moving away in a good enough way so I wrote it down, never expecting to actually use that idea in my final series. The longer I thought about it the more the idea of the flowers ”grew” on me. I started to think about how I had to open up when I first moved here to make friends and meet new people, and the idea of the flowers seemed to fit in with that just right.
The flowers in my images represent my emerging from my bubble of the past and moving forward. Every flower has to bloom, and to bloom they first have to open up. Every flower is beautiful in its own way, but to see that beauty they have to open up. For example in my first and second image you can see the center of the flower, this shows blooming into a new person. You can see the center of the flower in the picture, the center of the flower represents a my old life and the petals represent the ways that my life has changed and started spreading apart from that old life and that old person. In photos three and four you cannot see the center of the flowers only the petals. This represents all of the different reasons I chose to accept my new life and move on, and all of the ways I did move on and how they are all connected at the center of the flower, even if you can't see how they are connected directly in the image, you know that it's there.
In conclusion I know there are many things I could've done better with this series of photos, including making the photos more interesting, made sure the photos were clearer, and tried to mix it up from something that I haven't done before. But overall I am happy with my photos and the message that I am trying to send through them.