Digital Photography--final project

From: CARR, LUKE
To: Lunstrum, Nathan

Subject: Final Presentation/Project


I just wanted to get some feedback on my project before the presentation on Tuesday. I wanted to make sure I was covering all the bases. Let me know if there's something else I should try to include for the presentation aspects.

Also, I never turned in a proposal for this final. At this point it seems pointless to hand one in, but I'll give you a brief overview of what I set out to do.

I was inspired by a friend of mine who is taking a Collage course in the VA. I was visually impressed by what happens when you re-appropriate images, creating a new world within the worlds. The only thing I saw as a limitation with that medium was that there was no way to alter the dimensions of the material seeing as the material was cut out of magazines and newspapers. "If only you could warp these images to make them fit," I thought, "Then you could really make something click."

I was reminded of our Composite Image assignment and how, in "The Indecisive Moment", there was mention of technology--our generation has beeen blessed with Photoshop, among other tools, in which to capture image on multiple levels. I saw a short cut to producing compelling pictures; if there was a portrait I liked but the backdrop was mediocre, I could superimpose another setting for my "characters".

I began to realize that what I was doing had ceased to be photography in the journalistic sense and had now become storytelling. I was coming up with fictionalizations. That has been the underlying theme of my project--fiction. I have written some fiction before and did my best to apply what I had learned about narrative and nuance to the photographic medium.

So there you have it, my project has do to with composite imagery, seamless collage and photo-fictionalizations.

Tell me what you think,

L