Alright, here is my latest and I would say my personal most ambitious assignment I undertook. Took me 3 weeks to do it and hours figuring out what to shoot.
In the final project we could do anything but the idea is to create a portfolio that has similar qualities content-wise that links each photo as a part of a whole portfolio. This portfolio started with a simple idea of photographing people in a frame. What I mean by that is if you see notice all the people in these photos there is some sort of 'framing' in all of them. This is how I wanted to link all of these individual photos to one another - I find this idea (much to my taste) simple, elegant and smart. In addition, after researching on some Japanese photographic works, I stumble upon the works of Kanako Sasaki which I love so much. Her photography is elegant, poetic and romantic - upon looking at her work I discovered that the figures in her portraitures are relatively smaller than most photographic works I was used to see. This thus activates the environments in a stronger energy than most portraitures. Hence with this I decide to use that idea in my final project too.
(To view Kanako Sasaki works: http://www.kanakosasaki.com/)
So after the first day of taking some photos, my classmates describe something about them that I totally didn't expect to hear. Interestingly, they have a voyeuristic quality to them and my professor Gary Hallman call it 'surveillance' photography! He said it is kinda like a private investigator that couldn't get close to photograph the subject. Upon hearing those comments I was kinda deterred on carrying out this idea. It was totally an unexpected quality in my photos that I made no effort of executing. However, after much deliberation with my classmates and professors I decided that 'voyeuristic/surveillance' quality to them is really what makes these photos out of the ordinary! Much like the quote I heard in TED 2006:
If you are not prepared to being wrong; you will never come up with anything original.
-Ken Robinson in TED 2006-
And original is what I really want! And my classmates and professor love them too! So I ran with the idea and did few more, and the final project once completed, turned out to be my most creative and elegant work I did so far.
So I proudly present to you:
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Comments welcomed!
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