To The Core...

Ava Heller (Student)

Elizebeth Coleman (President of Bennington)

Jami Marshal Lively (Student)

Gladden Schrock's Hands (Bennington Staff)

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.