Final Project Ideas

Lately, my dominant interest in photography is with taking landscape photography, where I seek to find new and hidden characteristics in nature by shooting close up images to try and reveal the minute details of my subject, and to uncover almost another worldly dimension. As a result, my images tend to be less about capturing nature but more about depicting my discoveries.

For my Final Project, I have been contemplating various ideas and I know the only way for me to narrow them down and focus on one ideas is to start shooting..

1st idea: Black & White is also Color
I rarely take black and white photographs so I want to use light (natural & artificial) to be my color source.


2nd idea: Joining Heaven & Earth
Here in SMCM, I have witnessed some spectacular sunsets, and I am always fascinated by each one of them. Now I want to capture these sunsets and expose the cascade of purples, oranges, reds, blues etc. The print sizes of the photographs will be big 24 x 33 or 44 in. I guess the image will make the decision.


3rd idea:
An artist I looked at, at some point in the beginning of the semester was Stephen Lawson and his image The Year of the Drought.



I want to recreate this image but whereas the photographs were a collection of images taken over a year, mine would be taken over 24 hours..


4th idea: Skinned Landscape
I will first take photographs of the landscape and then project the images on a person’s body part such as their hands, face, arms, leg, stomach etc. I am thinking of shooting in black and white so the forms/shapes of the projected image can have a more surrealist effect on the body part.