#imagingworkshop

I wanted to explore the ending of one part of my life and the beginning of another and how things that were everyday become forgotten over time. Each of the photographs is a head shot of someone I encountered during my daily routine. They were a conglomeration of my best friends and people I had just met for the first time. In the final image the pictures that are the darkest represent those who I had not made any lasting memories with. As for the rest they are a mix of recognizable faces and those that I cannot quiet perceive their identity any more. The shape of the piece is representative of a mind in that it is not symmetrical and seemingly without order. The spaces between some of the images are meant to further establish the gaps in memory.

I have had an overriding theme in all of my projects this semester. That theme is memory and how photography can enhance and also degrade memory. As this is my final photography project of my undergraduate career I have become very sentimental of late about the possibility of never seeing the friends I have made over the past four years ever again. While I was shooting the head shots I noticed I was only taking pictures of people I had an interaction with. Most were friends but some were people I just happened to bump into and have a small conversation with. I realized this after I had developed the roles of film and was looking at the negatives. There were some I could recognize immediately and others I could not at all. I noticed that there was a mix of close friends in both categories and so I started developing this idea in which the faces of people I interact with any given day will eventually fade from memory.

-Rousseau Nutter

The Final Image. This width is much more relatable to the feeling the bathroom exudes. The black and white of everything other than the Tub helps create the glow around the tub I was aiming for as well as the flattening of the background and obscuring the Ghost in the background. I will be posting the image installed in a future post as well as the article written about the piece.

Final look of the interior with the frame. Not loving how wide it is or how dark the figure is.

To do this project I went to a free media site and found photos from all over the world. I then took photos of my shadow while I posed in “touristy” poses. I overlaid my shadow onto the found photos in Photoshop taking care to obstruct the subject of the image but not fully obstruct to allow some sort of recognition by the viewers. Then I printed them out at the size of 35mm film and put them in slide holders to present on a slide projector in the same fashion as a home travel slideshow.

Display Space - “A part that juts out.”

The first thought I have is inverting the word projection from the idea of projection light onto something to display an image to the idea of an object projecting outwards to influence the viewer.