Victoria Garnett

This first image is of my aunt talking with my sister about some of our family history and explaining who people are and identifying them in the photos she's showing. There's a bible that had been passed down over the years, that has my 3rd great grandfather St. Clair Graves information in it along with his biracial children's dates of birth etc.. Its a bit confusing because in the 1800's a lot of the time, bi-racial children did not or were not able to legally take the same last names of their white parent for reasons based on the history of our country etc.. the bible would have belonged to the grandfather of the woman in the center of the family photo (my great great Grandmother) . Digging and finding so much information when I go home. It's all interesting and fun to explain.  The last image is a family tree that goes from my grandfather Aaron Alexander Garnett and farther back.

Rachel Trautmann: Weekly Update

I haven't decided on a series yet for Senior Show but I have at least narrowed the possible series down to a size. I'm also going to be working on more of a photo installation that will also be included in the gallery show. The installation will only include Polaroid prints so I will have to scan those and post them when I get some more.

I uploaded my photos from the Women's March this week. I have included a few quick edits below.

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Here are some images of my Grandfather Aaron Garnett's family. The first image was taken on his childhood home and farm with his mother  Josephine,  father james clyde, his grandfather (center), siblings, niece, and nephew. The second image was taken of him on his wedding day with my grandmother Ruth. The last images are photos of my dad  James and his siblings doing work on our farm last weekend. I want to incorporate these images to show how my grandfathers family tradition of  keeping  up with farm life had lasted over the years. But the recent photos are not the same farm my grandfather grew up on, but the farm he bought to raise his own family on which I grew up on and still live til this day. As you can see we have a tradition of naming each other after people in the family as well.

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Rachel Trautmann: Weekly Update

Whoa! Washington D.C. was an experience. I did a decent amount of research before I left. I wanted to make sure I had time to cover all the protests I wanted to cover. I also didn't want to get lost on the metro!!! Well, only 30 minutes into walking around D.C. I was confronted by the Anti-Capitalist March that just happened to be the only violent protest all day (the broken windows and things were them). While I was photographing them, I unknowingly got trapped by cop cars and cops with pepper spray guns...so I have now experienced pepper spray. Not fun. The Women's March the following day was the complete opposite feel overall.
The photos below are just a couple of quick edits from Inauguration Day. I haven't had a chance to upload my photos from the Women's March.

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This is a map and ancestry timeline that traces my dna back to my ancestors. Pretty cool stuff. I did this back in December 2013 and they continue to make really interesting updates on the site. I am working on gathering photographs now of my parents, grandparents, great grandparents, and great-great grandparents. I was wondering if I should include recent photographs of my parents or photographs of them when they were younger or both? I have recent photographs of my dads sister, in mid conversation explaining to my sister who someone is, in an old photo she is holding. Love to hear some input on what you guys think.  

Diana Macaraeg - Proposal

I want to continue my work from Photo 3, which was an appropriation of Andrew Bush's "Drive."
My work was usually from a driver's perspective, but for my continuation, I would like to be mainly outside of the car rather than inside. I found this body of work to be more representational of me than my other works. I've been known to be a discreet person, and to photograph people in a vehicle that they believe to be their ''shield," I would like to further read/view people from their small window of vulnerabilities (their car windows) that can still be seen in public.

Rachel Trautmann: Proposal

I have a few ideas. I can either continue my Soles (shoes) series that I worked on in Photo Seminar I or change it up! I have two ideas for different series of work. I will be in D.C. for the inauguration this Friday and on Saturday for the Million Woman March. I have mapped out numerous protests going on throughout the city. So, kind of a portrait of a distressed America. My final option is an abstract series on climate change with images focused around water.

Victoria Garnett: Proposal

I've been working on photographing my Garnett family, our property, and collecting family photographs that had been passed down over the years. Our family has lived in the same county for hundreds of years (literally) and were able to keep up farm life and our reputation in the county. My family has always been involved with documenting each other through photography as early as the late 1800's. More recently my aunt has been doing research and we all participated in Ancestral DNA to trace our roots, etc... I would really like to find a way to create a project about this. I've already started gathering things over winter break, and would like advice about where I should take this. I can see where this is a pretty broad topic, but I would really love to do this. I would like to accomplish, by the end of the semester, a series of photo's that tell the story of  my Garnett family history.  

Last Year

 This is a continuing blog so if you are interested you can scroll back and see what students in Photo Sem 2 did last spring and watch their progress.

Welcome!

Welcome to 2017 and Photo Seminar 2! You will use this blog not to write about other artists but about yourself. Because we do not meet often this blog will be the record of how your work is coming along. You will upload images and write about what you are doing. If you do not take any photographs one week blog about what you are thinking about with your work.  You must blog every week. You can talk about Senior Show and the questions and concerns you might have about your personal part of the exhibition. Also, with the blog it is important and mandatory that you respond to the work of others. Help and give feedback to your fellow students. Even though we do not meet often I am available to meet with you just email me to set up a time. I am very excited to see how your projects develop!! My best....Greta

Photo Seminar 2 Spring 2017