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Today’s Warm Up: The Exquisite Portrait Work of Maria Kanevskaya

http://www.studentshow.com/kmusiy

http://www.mariakanevskaya.com/#5

After viewing the photos contained in the above link (Try her website, the student show link is there as backup just in case her website is blocked.) answer the following questions using complete sentences.

What words would you use to describe  Kanevskaya’s work? What photographic techniques does she use to create these works? What makes these  photos resonate with you? What ideas do you get for your own work?

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Next Assignment: Photo Series

 

For this next project, you will shoot FIVE PHOTOS that have a common theme. Another way of looking at this is telling a story with five photographs. A story that is complex enough to explore that you need the five photos to explore that.

You could see this as a personal essay with photos instead of words.

Example:Why am I so neurotic? Did my parents make the same mistakes I do? Why do I feel really strongly about a certain things? How well do I know my best friend? Do your friends really define you? Why do I love music so much? Why do I try so hard at soccer at 42, am I really trying to impress my father after all these years?

For the written part, you will write a two paragraph explanation of what your photo series is trying to say.

Examples?

http://howlheritage.com/blog/photography/sacred-objects-by-savannah-briley/

http://howlheritage.com/blog/photography/star-spangled-heart-by-liz-vuziy/

http://howlheritage.com/blog/video/perspectives-by-dmitriy-ivanchuk/

http://howlheritage.com/blog/photography/human-things-by-alena-wickham/

http://howlheritage.com/blog/photography/reaching-out-by-malina-alexander/

http://howlheritage.com/blog/news/isolation/

http://immunemedia.com/high-school/slice/#more-819

http://www.anjaniemiphotography.com/

http://www.lenscratch.com/2010/02/catherine-opie-and-football.html

http://www.mrtoledano.com/bankrupt/01-Bankrupt

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37041015@N03/sets/72157619385205348/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/75935220@N08/sets/72157641184825443/with/12606471185/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sk8er95/sets/72157641325198353/with/12683633444/

Advice: Choose a subject that you are passionate about or that confuses you. You could do five photos on dreams, with all five photos being of specific dreams you had. Or you could do a photo series on what people want to be after college, in life.

 

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Today’s Warm Up: Julian Chen’s Wild

http://www.studentshow.com/gallery/32112121/WILD

After viewing the photos contained in the link above, answer the following questions using complete sentences.

What do these photos have to do with the theme of Wild? How does each photo contribute to that theme? What do all of these photos have to say about being Wild or people in the Wild, or mankind’s existence with nature? Which special effects does Chen use to reinforce that idea. What ideas do you get for your own work? How would you approach the theme of Wild in five photographs?

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Today’s Warm Up: Poetic Photography by Cristina Coral

http://weandthecolor.com/poetic-photography-cristina-coral/75107

After viewing the photos in the link above, answer the following questions using complete sentences.

How do these images reflect the feelings that can be found in poems? What moods or emotions do you get out of these photos? What is the photographer trying to say about the world with these images? What ideas do you get for your own work out of these images?