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For my final project proposal, I have decided to focus on landscape. I will be sure to use the city of Philadelphia at my advantage and take images of the building downtown. I was thinking maybe doing my final project all in black and white. This would create a a strong connection between the different landscapes. I will try to use this pandemic at my advantage and capture some awesome landscape without a lot of people around. I want to continue getting better with my camera and this assignment is going to push my imagination and my skills. I have been looking at landscape images from  Elia Locardi. He is an internationally acclaimed professional travel photographer, Fujifilm Global Ambassador, writer, public speaker and highly experienced educator who spends his life shooting some of the most beautiful locations in the world. Here is one of my favorite picture he took. I am planning on trying my best to find awesome landscape in Philadelphia. Last class I really enjoyed the critique and I thought people in the class did really good and took the assignment different directions, which was interesting to see. Unfortunately I didn't have my pictures uploaded in time for the critique so I didn't get feedback on my work. I am exited to get started on the next assignment. 

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For this week’s blog, I wanted to share again how my photo essay assignment was going. First of all, I didn't think it would be this much fun to work a photo essay. It is my first time doing such a project and I am really enjoying the process and the results. My theme is based around the effect of the Coronavirus on myself and the people close to me. Like I emailed you about last week, I have been dealing with a lost in my family and I haven't had time to focus on this project as much as I should have. I will get it done as soon as possible. Im sorry for the delay. 

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For this week’s blog, I wanted to share how my photo essay assignment was going. First of all, I didn't think it would be this much fun to work a photo essay. It is y first time doing such a project and I am really enjoying the process and the results. My theme is based around the effect of the Coronavirus on myself and the people close to me. With everyone being quarantine, it is hard to find people willing to go outside and spend a good amount of time hit me to take pictures of them, but I will make it work. I am very excited to see other people’s photo essays and how they approach they assignment. 

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For this week’s blog I'm going to focus on the photo essay assignment and how I can make it interesting. With everything being closed around me and a very small amount of people on campus I will be focusing on the emptiness of my surroundings. I will focus my images on  the impact they have on others so that they can understand the importance of the situation I'm in right now. It will all be connected to the story it tells, even for people that have no idea how It is at the moment. I will also be using the use of color to show people how deserted everything is around me. I will probably make most of my pictures black and white to emphasize the loneliness. I was thinking about taking pictures of the surrounding streets and stores that have been closed for a while now and show how lonely it feels to be here. 

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The first artist I decided to talk about today is Meg Brock. She values real over perfection, in her life and her photography. Real joy. Real pain. Real love. Real mess. Real moments. She believes it's those real moments that tell people's stories, And that those moments will be most treasured now and by future generations. Whether it’s the story of a wedding day, a birth, or just the ebb and flow of your everyday life.

The second artist I researched id kristin Jae Bethel. He is an award-winning, independent editorial, documentary and advertising photographer based out of the Philadelphia area. Producing environmental portraits alongside photojournalism coverage. 

The last artist I researched is Heather Thomas. Over the past 9 years, she’s had the opportunity to work with hundreds of families in the Philadelphia area. Some families, year after year for 6,7,8 years in a row.she has worked with all types of families and it's the absolute, hands down favorite part of her career.She absolutely loves working with people. 

The past week has been very challenging with the virus going around. I havent the chance to take many pictures for the portrait assignment. I will try to find someone who still is around school to take pictures of them. 

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He The first person I researched this week is Nicolas Asfouri. He is a Danish national, born in Beirut Lebanon, who has worked for Agence France-Presse (AFP) for 14 years.He began his career with the agency as a freelancer in London in 2001 and became staff photographer in 2004. In 2005 he was named as chief photographer for Portugal, and in 2008 he was named chief photographer in Thailand. He has covered a wide range of news events and conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel, Lebanon, Pakistan, Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand, Philippines and the tsunami and nuclear disaster in Japan. This is very interesting because he gets to travel the world to follow the current events going on in the world. 

The second artist I researched for this week is Mulugeta Ayene. He is an Ethiopian photojournalist and fine art photographer living in Addis Ababa. While his work covers a wide range of subjects, recurrent themes in Mulugeta’s work are social transformations and their effects on identity and social relations. Mulugeta is a photographer for the Associated Press (AP) and works on regular assignments for prominent international organizations such as UNICEF the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to mention a few. His 2018 photography series ‘Ethiopian Spring’ was exhibited at the 2019-2020 Nobel Peace Prize Exhibition in Oslo, Norway. His series Ethiopian Spring was very emotional because he was so close to the people there and it made me feel like I was part of it all.

The third person I decided to research is Farouk Batiche. He is a press photographer with over 20 years of experience in photojournalism, covering stories in Algeria, North African countries, and the Middle East. Batiche began his career as a war journalist with the Newpress photo agency in Algiers in 1997, in collaboration with the press agency Sipa and Associated Press. From 2011, during the Arab Spring protests, he worked as a freelancer at Reuters. This photograph is showing a students scuffle with riot police during an anti-government demonstration in Algiers, Algeria. It is crazy to me to see how close to the action Farouk is getting to take such a powerful picture.

My assignment as been going well but unfortunately I haven't been able to take many pictured because I have been away a lot for basketball the past couple days. I think that the portraits assignment is going to be easier for me than the night photography assignment.

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The first photographer I would like to talk about is Jimmy Nelsson. He is an English photographer and is well-known for his portraits of tribal and indigenous people taken in more than 16 countries He spent his childhood in Africa, Asia and South America, traveling around with his father, who worked as a geologist for International Shell. His photos will live to tell the tale.

The second photographer I want to talk about is Réhahn, born on 4 May 1979 in Bayeux in Normandy, France, is a photographer based in Hoi An, Vietnam. Known as the photographer that “captures souls”, he is recognized for his portraits of Vietnam, Cuba, Malaysia and India, and for his cultural preservation work. Réhahn’s unique combination of fine art photography and documentary styles results in images that both inform and mesmerize.

The last photographer is Manny Librodo is from Lambunao, Iloilo, Philippines. He graduated Valedictorian in high school and was a college scholar at University in the Philippines in the Visayas in college. Before he ventured into photography full-time, he was a high school teacher in one of Thailand’s premier international schools.The ‘Photoshop wizard’ Manny Librodo’s photos don’t just tell a story, they are pure works of art.

This week I kept working on my night time pictures and I could tell I was getting a lot more comfortable with the settings and all. I printed my pictures earlier this week and I’m happy with the end results. Im looking forward to take portraitist the next couple of days. 

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The first photographer I would like to talk about is Jimmy Nelsson. He is an English photographer and is well-known for his portraits of tribal and indigenous people taken in more than 16 countries He spent his childhood in Africa, Asia and South America, traveling around with his father, who worked as a geologist for International Shell. His photos will live to tell the tale.

The second photographer I want to talk about is Réhahn, born on 4 May 1979 in Bayeux in Normandy, France, is a photographer based in Hoi An, Vietnam. Known as the photographer that “captures souls”, he is recognized for his portraits of Vietnam, Cuba, Malaysia and India, and for his cultural preservation work. Réhahn’s unique combination of fine art photography and documentary styles results in images that both inform and mesmerize.

The last photographer is Manny Librodo is from Lambunao, Iloilo, Philippines. He graduated Valedictorian in high school and was a college scholar at University in the Philippines in the Visayas in college. Before he ventured into photography full-time, he was a high school teacher in one of Thailand's premier international schools.The ‘Photoshop wizard’ Manny Librodo’s photos don’t just tell a story, they are pure works of art.

This week I kept working on my night time pictures and I could tell I was getting a lot more comfortable with the settings and all. I printed my pictures earlier this week and I'm happy with the end results. Im looking forward to take portraitist the next couple of days. 

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The firs artist I decided to look at this week is Julia Anna Gospodarou. Architect and International Award-Winning B&W Fine Art Photographer, Julia  lives in Athens and has a passion for both architecture and photography, doing them with the same dedication and joy.I have always been really interested in architectural photography and I really enjoy looking through her pictures. I really like the way she uses the B&W on most pictures. Julia is mostly known for her black & white long exposure architectural photography, but she is covering with her work multiple aspects and photographic genres, as she is always in search for beauty as  a tool to express herself in images. I can relate to her work a little bit with the night time photography segment we have been working on lately. 

The second artist I looked at is Laurent Baheux. Laurent chooses to develop a collection of portraits and scenes of the life of the animals like a family album. With a new approach in traditional nature photography, Laurent tries to capture the humanity and personality off each animal with deep black and high contrasts. I really enjoyed looking at his pictures of the animals and the way he used contrast really made the pictures even more attractive. His portfolio of the wildlife in Africa was fascinating and I'm also very curious as to see how he got so close to some very dangerous animals in the wild. 

The last artist I looked at is Croatian photographer Nenad Saljic, who trained as a mountaineer and caver in his youth, is above all an artist, inspired by his love of nature’s most ancient textures, forms and shapes. His exquisite black-and-white photography is a testament to his ability to capture nature’s essence. I was really impressed by the landscapes captured by Nenad Saljic and also the way he used the B&W contrast. His award-winning Portrait of the Matterhorn was spectacular in so many ways and caught my eye right away. The B&W really makes the image stand out. 

This week’s shoot was a lot easier than last week’s because it was my first time taking pictures at night time. I wasn't in class last week and didn't get to do the critique so Im not sure what people think about my pictures. Every details is now more clear the while taking pictures and I always look to get the good angle of what I'm trying to show. 

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“I try to see how I can bring one experience out that somehow is referring to the third dimension,” Ms. Binet said. “But not saying, ‘This is the building. I’m going to try to tell you everything about the building.’ ”The first artist I decided to explore today is Berenice Abbott. Arriving back in New York in 1929, Abbott was struck by the rapid transformation of the built landscape. On the eve of the Great Depression she began a series of documentary photographs of the city that debuted in 1939 as the traveling exhibition and publication Changing New York. For the rest of her life Abbott advocated for a documentary style of photography as exemplified in this project. I am very interested in architectural photography and he images of New York were very pleasing to me.

The second artist I decided to research more information on is Candida Höfer. She is a German photographer best known for her large-scale color images of empty interiors. The artist focuses primarily on cultural and institutional spaces, including libraries, zoos, and opera houses. These spaces, often absent of or scarcely populated by human figures “Spaces may or may not invite the image,  if they do, they mostly do it with their spatial layers of time,” she said of her work. “It is then the image that takes the place of the space; the image in its own right.” This is a very interesting way to approach architectural photography. A completely different way of seeing it than Abbott’s approach. Candida Höfer studied under Bernd and Hilla Becher and is known for her technical precision, which elevates her architectural photography to the level of art.

The last artist I researched today is Hélène Binet. She has captured some of the world’s most startling contemporary buildings for practices and leading architecture publications. The Swiss-born photographer brings warmth and texture to her images by shooting entirely in analogue and has become the leading architectural photographer of her generation. Ms. Binet isn’t interested in showing buildings as grand structures on a landscape. Instead, she zooms in, hiding some parts of a space to reveal new qualities in others.“I try to see how I can bring one experience out that somehow is referring to the third dimension,” Ms. Binet said. “But not saying, ‘This is the building. I’m going to try to tell you everything about the building.’ ” I really enjoyed looking through her images because she really captures some unique details in buildings. 

I have yet to complete the night time photography assignment but I'm sure it is going to be harder to complete than the other assignments. My partner and I will be focusing on capturing unique images while using the flashlight in different ways. We didn't do the in-class critique yet because we just printed our images last class.

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After being in the class for a couple weeks, I am getting a lot better with the camera and a lot more comfortable with the settings. It is a lot easier for me to capture better pictures consistently. I still have some struggle taking good pictures when the su  starts to go down and I have to work on adjusting my camera to adapt to different situations. 

For this week’s blog, I was looking at the work of Jeffrey Totaro. I was inspired by him because of the perspective of his photos. He shows a point of view from the inside of buildings looking out, which I thought was pretty interesting. For my future work I am trying to find places where I could take pictures with a similar theme. I think it is very cool to see the outside work from the inside of a building, like it is showed in the second photo posted below. 

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While using a camera for the first time ever last week, I experienced some trouble with focusing on the object I was taking pictures off. After playing around with the camera for a while I started to figure out and my pictures started to get better and better. I was taking picture with a friend who as more experience than me with cameras so that he could help me with any problems I had. 

Here are some images by Adam Mork. These images relate to my work because I am interested in architectural photography. I am looking forward find some incredible buildings in the Philadelphia area and be able to share my images with the class.

https://www.archdaily.com/photographer/adam-mork