We are finishing up portraiture this week, and I never thought I would be excited to move on. I realized that my downfall of this assignment was time; though one of my favorite topics, it is difficult to get true, pure photographs of others without time on your side. Two of my four photographs were taken during class hours, and the other two were literally taken inside my apartment. On the other hand, I am proud of the photographs I produced. Though they aren’t “striking” like I would prefer them to be, the simplicity works with my polaroid theme, and I believe each picture still tells a story. As the basketball season is officially over, I am hoping to be able to dedicate more time to the next assignment. I’ve worked with abstract photography in the past, and the pictures accompanying this post are from those assignments. My favorite of the four is the black and white; its striking appearance draws me in.
I looked at photographs of Alexandre Jacques for inspiration, as he pays close attention to detail, you cannot necessarily always tell what you’re looking at, but you cannot look away. He is from Canada. Some of his works can be seen at https://nonsensesociety.com/2014/03/alexandre-jacques/ .
Another photographer I looked into was Jaroslav Rossler, from Czech. His abstracts were turn of the time, and I consider them to be very intriguing. You cannot quite tell what the subject is, but it evokes certain emotions within you.
I am excited for the critique this week, as I always find it insanely helpful to see what I need to be working on in the future. Unfortunately, I will only be in class for one hour this week, and I enjoy hearing everybody’s analyses of each others’ works.
