"I am interested in a flood of information as seen through context, and a seeming drought of information, and how both are actually so loaded."
1. Do not forget that statement. Your goal (overall, not just for the midterm crit) is to come up with a visual equivalent for that statement.
2. Figure out the subject issue: if you're not photographing artists anymore, then have pictures of others or at very least frame the discussion as that you're photographing people who are accessible--who you can photograph repetitively because this seems to be your interest.
3. You need to figure out: how far do you have to go with context to get ‘flood’ and ‘drought’?
4. So: Photograph a lot. Photograph many subjects in many places at many distances in different compositions. Print out a lot of shots of the same person and look at them together to see how the different contexts, distances, and compositional choices read. Perhaps leave them up on the big wall for a few days to consider them.
5. Think about the issue of familiarity, intimacy, closeness, and relationship and how these are formally reflected in your work.
6. Have at least one photo printed at scale on good paper, so we can actually see the 'detail' you speak of.
7. Revisit Time Away and think about what you came away with from that (what you really like about photogrpahy).
p.s. it's a numbered list, so feel free to reorder :)
"I am interested in a flood of information as seen through context, and a seeming drought of information, and how both are actually so loaded."
ReplyDelete1. Do not forget that statement. Your goal (overall, not just for the midterm crit) is to come up with a visual equivalent for that statement.
2. Figure out the subject issue: if you're not photographing artists anymore, then have pictures of others or at very least frame the discussion as that you're photographing people who are accessible--who you can photograph repetitively because this seems to be your interest.
3. You need to figure out: how far do you have to go with context to get ‘flood’ and ‘drought’?
4. So: Photograph a lot. Photograph many subjects in many places at many distances in different compositions. Print out a lot of shots of the same person and look at them together to see how the different contexts, distances, and compositional choices read. Perhaps leave them up on the big wall for a few days to consider them.
5. Think about the issue of familiarity, intimacy, closeness, and relationship and how these are formally reflected in your work.
6. Have at least one photo printed at scale on good paper, so we can actually see the 'detail' you speak of.
7. Revisit Time Away and think about what you came away with from that (what you really like about photogrpahy).
p.s. it's a numbered list, so feel free to reorder :)