Series: Hey guys, so for this series I am focusing on the topic of desegregation of schools in America. I will be conducting interviews and taking portraits of people who experienced this time. I've started the research process and found some family and friends of family who are willing to participate.
Right now I am trying to get a schedule worked out with the subjects and trying to come up with a list of starter questions for the interview.
This is my senior show project. I am worried about space for this because of the large number of students in the class. So I am still thinking of a subject.
I am also nervous because this will be my first time taking portraits of people who are not my age I am trying to figure out a way to connect with them and hopefully make them comfortable in front of my camera.
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Portfolio: So I found a cool tool to help me do this portfolio. In my creative cloud subscription there is the Adobe Portfolio program! I haven't made the site yet but they do web hosting and I can make my own domain name which was really cool to find out. From looking at the tool its set up like most web building programs with ready to use templates for me. I am excited to work with this but I am upset I did not know I had this for years of paying Adobe for this.
Okay so I do have a website I made REALLY quickly because it was a requirement for my internship. I will link that here but I will be doing something differently I believe I want to break up my photos in sections instead of putting it all on one page. Link below.
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Book: I enjoy this, I got to respond to all the questions in the Context section and that actually helped me with my series I'm working on now. Right now for me I am struggling with my identity as a photographer because all of the popular instagram photographers do not work in series or "brainstorm project ideas" They just put half naked women in front of a solid color paper backdrop. Its been really discouraging for me because I am on social media and this is what I see all the time and this is what I see people responding to. While reading Swartz words about fine art photographers and bodies of work the thought of Instagram photographers was always in the back of my head. I guess this has been on my mind recently because of a conversation I had with a popular Instagram artist he was shocked about all the research and time I spent to produce "only" 15 images. And its really discouraging the amount of recognization he gets from my peers and the lack of I get from them.
I would like to know how you all feel about these photographers that do not work in what Swartz was talking about.
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ReplyDeleteFind some real photographers on Instagram...start with Ruddy Roye! Oh and by the way he is going to speaking at SPE this year.
ReplyDeleteFor your current series, a couple things:
ReplyDelete1. You should bring some of the prints from your recent (Photo Sem 1) series to these conversations with people. This is a nice entry point for them getting to know you and having a clear idea of what you're about artistically.
2. Senior Show...well, we gonna see. I'm actually thinking that all of us photo people should have a secondary show, since we need to do an alternative exhibit at some point anyway.
Also, the website you linked to - more than a couple things:
1. Yeah, I can only imagine there's a lot more you intend on doing there. The whole business with the site title and contents remaining over the scrolled images and those images disappearing when you hover over them -it's no good as a showcase.
2. I know we can get a better picture of you.
3. I don't think you have to give yourself a score card.
I second Michaels's idea of bringing some of your work with you to the interviews to help people connect to you and your work. Also, something I heard this weekend at a metals/jewelry symposium and that the book also talks about in the next section is the importance of having a pitch - a brief summary of what your doing and why it's important. In this specific case, you might want to emphasize why it is important to you personally to help make a personal connection.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with Greta that Instagram is not necessarily the best way to judge your work - just because someone has a lot of social media followers doesn't mean they are critically or financially successful. Keep being true to your vision!
Finally, I know what you mean about not being sure who you are as a photographer - I feel exactly the same way, but figure that this time in my education is when I am supposed to be figuring that out, so that's ok :) I think you are going to find out, too!