Photography Studio 1

I was fortunate enough to receive a press pass for a Lethbridge Hurricanes game to accompany my best friend Cody to help him shoot some behind the scene video. Of course I brought my camera with me to see if I could capture the game well on film. I’m super happy with the results and it was an incredible learning experience to better comprehend my focus distancing in fast paced settings. The film is ilford hp5 pushed 2 stops to 1600. 

Here are my selected favourite images I took during the most recent protest that happened at the University of Lethbridge in regards to a controversial speaker being invited to campus. When I arrived to campus that day I couldn't believe I forgot my digital camera, I had never had to shoot an event on film or specifically something that fast paced and with that much tension involved. Another issue was that I didn't have have high iso film and was forced to push my images to 3200 to get useable images. I think this forced push adds to the intensity of the images and demonstrates the panic that I felt as an artist documenting this situation trying a technique that I wasn't entirely comfortable with just yet. The energy at this protest fuelled every frame I chose to take and dictated what I chose to capture. The possibility of completely destroying the film I shot due to poor development and bad exposure was an adrenaline high I hadn't felt from photography before. It was ...

  This selection of photos is in response to my creative rut I have felt recently. I really love what I have taken in these selects and think pursuing more of a street approach to photography will fulfill me far more than what I have been doing as of late. There is something magical about just going out and shooting and letting the world find you then rather trying to manufacture it. I shot two rolls of film on the weekend shot on HP5 pushed to one stop over in development. Some of the shots worked out really well and some not so great. I think slightly more development time would have helped as I feel their is a loss in detail in a lot of the shots. The water in the development lab was running very cold and I don't think I compensated for that as well as I could have. I also think my metering whilst on the street is still very poor. I want to learn to shoot street without a grey card which is what I do as it is so annoying to pull one out every time. Better judgement of what I am ...

  This project brought me a severe amount of frustration. I did a lot of reflection during this time period and felt incredibly uninspired to do anything after working on this project. I got lost in the complexities of chasing narratives that don't exist. Trying to make connection that are not there and adding useless elements that confuse the image did no service to myself at all. I chose to strip back all of the superficial elements of this image and focus on my original idea mixing in some elements of experimenting when it came to my development and improving on my technique. So often I get lost in the narrative when creating work that I end up creating superficial things that don't actually mean anything to me. For this exercise all I wanted to do was put a skateboarder (myself) jumping onto a rail down a stair set that is protruding out of my mouth. Purely for the joy of creating and thinking this is funny was so much more impactful than any other iterations I tried to mak...

 Contact Sheet This is one of my contact sheets for this final assignment and for this post I want to talk about the meaning of my piece and thought process going into this final project.  Men's mental health has always been an interesting topic to me being someone who has suffered throughout my life and has seen how detrimental men's mental health is in my family. The original idea was to explore the lineage between mental health and family and how certain things are passed on and some are not. I wanted to capture myself, my father and brother during an interview discussing some fairly heavy topics and photograph moments from this conversation fairly sporadically. My brother was unable to be apart of it due to time constraints which changed a the project narrative a bit but this did allow me to explore my Dad's mental health more as well as my own. So far I have a few favourite images that show uncomfortable moments, high contrast, emotions and more. I did my interview wit...

Why Are Walker Evans Polaroid So Impactful? Personal Reflection  Sources: https://www.anatomyfilms.com/walker-evans-polaroids/ https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Selected-Images/42CE97E9136E86DC https://www.moma.org/artists/1777 Walker Evans (November 3, 1903 - April 10, 1975) was known primarily for his work during the Great Depression documenting the severity that the Great Depression had on the working class. He was hired by the government to document the moments of the Great Depression and he approached this very unintentionally with the shots he took but just to capture the moments. In 1973 he bought a Polaroid SX-70 and described it as how 'New Toy' which opened a new light into photography striping it back to the basics of capturing what you see. I love this philosophy of photography and so often I am bogged down by choice fatigue when it comes to settings, composition, and gear. Styles like this make me want to be the new Fuji x100v that uses film presets that are highly...