http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/invited/5624929/5ae0b043a72cb8386bd9d441932b7964e64dfbb5

Reality Project and Blurb Book

Reality Project

Reality Project Artist Statement

                

               When I started this project I had no idea what I wanted to do. Reality in photography is a very broad topic for a project. When we use a camera I believe we create our own kind of reality that we use to show the world through our lens.  I finally decided on an idea when I heard my sisters talking when they were getting ready for school and work. They had a lot more negative things to say about themselves than positive things and they were comparing themselves to the people we see in ads and commercials.  My sisters are beautiful and part of the reason I chose my topic of beauty and reality is, I wanted to show them that the ads we see and how the media portrays women is not real.  My project is about beauty and the media.

                My first image composite  is of me ( I am the model in all of my photos).  On the left half of the photo I am portrayed how the media uses women for ads and commercials. I have my hair done, make up on, and I have been edited in Photoshop. On the right I am all natural I have no makeup on and I have not been edited at all. This shows the contrast of how different women look in the media than real life. My second composite is of four other images. The first one on the left is me when I wake up in the morning all natural no hair done and no makeup. The second image on the top right is me with my hair straightened but no makeup.  Third on the bottom left is me with my hair done and make up on, and the forth on the bottom right is me also edited in Photoshop after I did my hair and makeup. The idea behind this image is to show in a progression how different what we see and reality actually is.  Composite number three is myself again and I am layered over with magazine ads showing models. The message behind this composite is that we let these ads and the media define how we view beauty in our society.  My last composite I received the idea for when I was looking for magazine adds to use in the previous one. None f the magazines really had anything positive to say about being happy with who you are. I decided instead to create my own mock magazine cover and have the internal articles say the opposite of what most magazines say. For example instead of saying 10 ways to lose 10 pounds the magazine cover says, “ways to be happy with who you are”. I hope you enjoy my idea and the work I put into the project! 

Here is the link to my blurb book let me know what you think! 

http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/invited/5619418/76f08fa8bd973ec8703ecdb0078b118d82ff70f0

Final Project & Book

Updated my book with the edits you guys mentioned in class last night. Thank you so much for the feedback!

http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/invited/5609376/d317aef3ad7a3892f16c629eb5aafc149dcd0459

Also, posting the photos from my final project.

Announcement! Photography and Art Exhibitions Coming Up!

Hello Group! There are three upcoming events that I would like to share with you:

1: CGCC Student Art Show Reception
Date: Monday May 4th
Time: 6:30-8:00pm
Location: Library

Come out and see artwork made in CGCC classes!

2: The Good Hurt - MFA Thesis Exhibition in Photography by Clarita Lulic
Date: Friday May 1st
Time: 5:00-8:00pm
Location: Night Gallery, Tempe Marketplace

Link to Event

3: unBecoming - MFA Thesis Exhibition in Photography by Ashley Czajkowski
Date: Friday May 1st
Time: 6:00-9:00pm
Location: Step Gallery, ASU Grant Street Studios 

Link to Event

Vision and Reality project ideas

All of the vision and reality subjects I am contemplating have to do with photographing humans and using layering or long exposure. Here are some inspirational photos and ideas. I am not sure how to successfully execute the last one. : /

https://www.flickr.com/photos/thisdotcomtaken/4383226059/

http://www.sfmoma.org/explore/collection/artwork/8478

 

https://bobcatcountry.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/itsaboutme.jpg

 

Vision and Reality Project

I'm not sure what I want to do with this project. I have several ideas running through my mind and I'm sure I could make the majority of them work, but which one do I want to do?


I have my daughter and of course she has many toys and we play with them all and have huge imaginations. It keeps me a kid at heart and creative. My daughter actual inspires a lot of my photography and she helps me with projects and ideas. With asking her opinion and looking at few websites and pictures, these are a few ideas I have come up with, but with small twists.

Minions Traveling... my twist is I have small toys at my disposal (including Minion toys) and I could take their pictures in different locations around the valley.

Having several of one person in a picture. This one is a picture of the photographer and her internal struggles with herself. My twist is my daughter dislikes being an only child, so could have her be twins or triplets with different personalities.

I like the idea of a picture within a picture. I happen to have an antique looking frame that I could use to take a picture of someone in different locations and outfits and place them within each other.

Then lastly was my mothers idea. I happen to have a celebrity crush and she thought it would be funny to photo shop wedding pictures of me and Chris Pine. The picture below gave me an idea of photo shopping a little more, but it might just end up a little bit creepy. This photographer took pictures of herself with a mannequin family.

All pictures were found on http://www.boredpanda.com/category/photography/

Vision/Reality

http://petapixel.com/2015/03/18/how-i-created-a-shot-of-myself-falling-in-the-kitchen-with-food-flying-everywhere/

While I have a couple other ideas in the back of my head in case this one doesn't quite work, I hope I'm able to achieve something close to my inspiration.  This is a perfect example of 'enhancing reality', without being totally implausible.  

Anytime I choose to edit a photograph, it's normally because the image does not quite convey the scene as I saw it.  The color could be muted due to poor white balance, or the frame wasn't quite lined up properly, or any other amount of things that can go awry when attempting to capture that perfect image the first time.  

This example takes a similar approach in attempting to depict not a person, place or thing, but an event.  I imagine it to be the equivalent of being able to have photographic evidence of your most outrageous story that you've told all of your friends, and yet they still don't believe you.