Photography Studio 1

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 is a scene that I see almost every morning and have started capturing photos of it often. Sometimes on my phone quickly at a glance and occasionally on my digital camera and once on film (shot on colour need to take them to a lab still.) I love the qualities of this photo, it builds a frame within a frame and has a subtle accent of colour with he pink grow light in the window. The frame is interrupted by the lamp on the left side of the window. As I was writing this I realized why I like this shot so much. The movie Hereditary by Ari Aster is my favourite movie of all time as I thoroughly enjoy the horror genre and this movie is a masterpiece. The following photo is a still from the movie that my photo reminds me off and subconciously probably was riffing off of. It would be fun to do a series of images with this light on in a room, maybe I will do that for fun sometime. 

  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...

  This series is very personal to me as I wanted to look at the connections of mental health between my father and I. I wanted to display the contrast between us too and the similarities so the viewer can understand how we are different but the same. The piece lends into self vaguely to performance art as seen in the photos are very deep conversation was being had about our main issues in life and how we should talk about them more. Both of us did a written piece at the same time as the conversation was going on posing question and trying to connect with eachother on a deeper level. I feel as this piece isn’t just about the similarities in mental health but the fatherly hood realization that their kids aren’t okay all the time, and that they are real beings with real problems with real issues same as them. It’s a project with lots of love involved even though the concept is difficult to address.

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 ...

Ryan Reeves Vs Marcus Foligno  By: Aaron Levinsky/Star Tribune I want to discuss this photo as I think it really demonstrates that sports photography is an art form. Think of the luck that Aaron Levinsky would have to get a fight to break out right beside where he is perched and he had to have the right lens on a the perfect time which is crazy as so many sports photographer are using telephotos. This photo captures the perfect moment of a spirited hockey scrap against two of the toughest guys to play the game and it is beautiful. Even not as a huge sports fan (other then the Calgary Flames) this photo caught my eye. I've never seen a hockey photo shared all over the internet and on the front of every page for a week, it was insane.  It united hockey fans, photographers, and artists alike just based on the pure composition and timing that this photo displays. I am excited for the future of sports photos as I think more and more artistic photographers are going to get into the ...