To The Core...
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Ava Heller (Student)
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Elizebeth Coleman (President of Bennington)
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Jami Marshal Lively (Student)
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Gladden Schrock's Hands (Bennington Staff)
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Kyra Scemema (Student)
This is my first time working with people in such a formal way. For my lighting class I decided to do studio portraiture, and this was also a first. I had never set foot in a studio to do a project for myself.
I noticed that this project's simplicity was more of a response to what my classmates were doing. Everybody was trying to come up with the most original idea, and that was most of the time very complicated; extravagant plot's, complicated lighting, so on and so forth. I decided to go with something a bit simpler. Oddly enough this is the story of most of my photography. I'm quite tired of creating complicated pieces. Not that there is anything wrong with that. But I am at a stage where I am trying to get at the core of, well everything. So with my subjects I was trying to get them without posing them, so everything you see here was a posture that the subjects discovered for themselves, although I would pose them initially (first 2 rolls of film) to get them comfortable. But eventually they got comfortable and experimented for themselves.
Tell me what you think.
3 Comments:
I like thes a lot. I am not looking at the lighting, technique and all that blah blah, but I am seeing real characters and people with very interesting personalities. They seem very real. You are really good.
I love this. What a nice thing to encounter amongst video blogs... sometimes I forget how much I love black and white photos but I am always reminded again. Thanks for reminding me today.
-serra
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