Photography Studio 1

Final Project Reflection  My final project was aimed to analyze the similarities and differences between my Father and I's mental health. I wanted to represent this project in an obtainable way to an gallery audience that would enable the content to relatable and fairly easy to interpret but also to be personal enough for me that it has deeper meaning. The style of photos I chose and created relied on heavy contrast which was achieved by using the red filters to get the perfect amount of black but maintain the highlights. In class we spoke about how happy accidents are real part of this project specifically looking at  how the photos of me have a lot more white and the photos of my dad are have a lot more black. I find this unique and could portray a deeper meaning not obtainable by the audience member but open to interpretation.  For this project I did a lot of testing in the dark room and fell in love with the enlargement process. This is the first time I have actually ...

 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...