Christina Sceglio

Interpretive Photographs Artist Statement

Have you ever gone to a public place with family or friends and just looked around to see the people around you?  Its funny to see, a person or group of people at the table next to you and they are not communicating with each other because they are too busy with their phones.  I chose to take a series of shots, where people are so caught up with technology they are completely oblivious to the world around them.  It fascinating to see how each generation over time gets more and more tangled up in their phones, that the most important things in life, like family, friends, and memories don’t seem to be that important anymore when their phone is with them.  The Interpretive category I thought would be best for this series, because I wanted to show the viewers just how attached us as a society are to our phones. Taking each picture, I tried taking the pictures without the persons permission because I didn’t want the photo to feel staged.  I wanted to document exactly what happens in everyday life.  

Sexuality

Every women dreams about this day, what it would be like, how it will happen.  It seems like things never happen the way you want them too, but no matter what happens the outcome is always special, especially when your in love! The reason behind this series was because a few weeks ago, I got engaged to my boyfriend of five years.  I thought it would be really interesting to put a little twist onto the story of how it happened though.  Women don’t typically propose to their significant others so it made the ending of this series sort of a shock.  I started out with the man inside the house looking around for the ring getting ready to propose to his women.  I took advantage of the dark lighting in the house to resemble a man’s worst nightmare of losing something that is a really big deal.  So the very last photo, the light outside was perfect to give off the right amount of lighting to show just how amazing that one special day is to every women.