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Personal Interest

Personal Interest

For my final project I focused on nature and rainy days. I noticed in quarantine my hardest days have been the rainy ones, where you really feel trapped indoors. So I made myself explore them. I took photos of flowers and plants that have been blooming due to all the rain and changing of seasons. I took photos of them on overcast days before the rain came. The rain drop photos are some of my favorites. It reminded me of when I was a little kid watching the raindrops roll down the window. I don’t know if anyone else used to pretend they were racing each other to get down to the bottom of the window? 😂 anyways. These photos are of my windshield of my car. If it rained I sat in my car and took photos and then would hit the wind shield wipers and wait for new formations of raindrops.

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INFLUENCE

Project: Influence, Neil Winokur

My influence behind my photos comes from Neil Winokur. He was born in 1945 in New York and is a New York based photographer who used commercial photography to influence his fine art photography and to help him explore contemporary American culture. He places objects and sometimes animals against a vibrant backdrop. These objects have been a single egg, an artichoke, a dog, a roll of toilet paper, a pan, a Chinese restaurant takeout container and those are just a few of the objects Neil Winokur has chosen as subjects in his photographs. Some of Neil’s photos are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I was very drawn to his series “Essential Items”, probably due to the current circumstances where I keep hearing the word essential in quarantine. Toilet paper being number one. For my photos I would've loved to drop some other items in the water but felt disrespectful because…. some people really need toilet paper right now. So I chose to drop fruits and vegetables to play with color and because they were easy to get. The reason I relate my photos to Neil Winokur are due to his use of color. I took my color in a different direction and used more than one object in my photos other than the single apple going into the water. I would like to use his series as an inspiration through my work. I really love the simplicity and how striking his photos still are to me. I always find myself gravitating to color in my work and will continue to try and find other artists doing the same things to inspire me. 

http://www.neilwinokur.com/

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Time Machine

During quarantine the constant thing changing for me during this is my backyard. I live on the water and every day we have swans, ducks, geese, etc. visiting us. Across the canal from me I see people coming to feed them and having it be their outting for the day instead of being stuck inside. I just feel lucky to call this backyard my home especially in a time like this. Every day I go outside and take new photos of the birds, the swans have just been so interesting to me. Having the birds and the tides change in my backyard help me realize time is still moving while I’m stuck in my house.

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AFTER DARK

Most of these photos were taken before we had to live the social distancing lifestyle. I love photographing people so sadly this may be one of my last assignments with many people in them. All photos taken after dark, either with no light or one light.

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Light and Shadow

Light and Shadow: for light and shadow I started with the last image in the sequence. I didn’t get many images that I liked though but I thought this one was cool. (It’s a piece of paper I cut and twisted). All images are taken using one spotlight with a make shift snoot. I focused on color and the dramatic lighting and shadow provided by the one spotlight on the items.

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When it comes to the color temperature being different throughout the photos I enjoy it. It shows the passage of time throughout Golden Hour and the intensity of the light.