Some work from this semester

swap

I sent out a couple of rolls of film to friends to take photos with and send back to me. I already took photos with the same roll (I didnt rewind them completely). I’m not sure what I’m going to do with them. It’s really just a project I’ve been thinking about doing for curiosity’s sake. I like the idea of two images from different lives on the same negative.

(dis)belief

I’ve been thinking about the idea of journals. I spent a lot of time this summer reading through my old journals; angsty writings from someone I’m still not quite comfortably distanced from. I was thinking a lot about how drastically my beliefs have changed since I started writing journals about ten years ago. I mean, its to be expected, but I feel like the last ten years of my life have been spent figuring out what I don’t actually believe in. There was a lot of insecurity in that disbelief. Now I feel that I’ve got a pretty secure hold on what I believe in, and I really would like to concentrate on that in my images: that change, and that childish confusion. I’m not entirely sure how to represent those feelings in a photograph. I think I need to change shooting tactics and completely plan everything out for this sort of a project.

I’m trying to decide if I want to incorporate some of the aesthetics of my journals in the photographic process. My journals are half sketchbook. I tried some sort of sketches by coloring on prints that I wasn’t really happy with. I just used markers that were kind of bright for me, but I think it could be a really interesting aesthetic. I’s like to incorporate text as well.

I’m thinking of working in the gum bichromate process. I’ve been looking around flickr for examples of all of the processes and I absolutely love the colors people are able to get with the process. I think it will really work as a sort of hint to memory. Plus it just looks pretty fuckin cool.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hansbazar/2260463473/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/saravalentine/2438877177/

and headstrong

After weeks of things going wrong, I feel like I’m finally getting somewhere. Most of my prints have been coming out pretty decently. (I will upload some examples soon, hopefully). I gave up on larger prints for a while, and just decided to a lot of small prints to test everything out. I think I’ve been having a little more luck with the van dykes.