Flâneur Project

The flaneur involves traveling and capturing a story. I decided to photograph inside a cemetery. I took the idea of a flaneur and chose to tell a story about the end of a journey, as a cemetery also references a final resting place for the deceased. When deciding on a location I wanted to be unconventional. There are stereotypes surrounding the idea of a cemetery. People think they are old, eerie and sad. However, what people don't always associate with a cemetery is history, architecture and uniqueness. I curated my top ten photos down to images that didn't necessarily display headstones or graves. Instead I chose to display unique structures that would seclude the location. I also chose to edit my final images on the darker side to reference an overall theme.

I visited the cemetery two separate days to photograph. Both days were gloomy with overcast. I would say the weather played a large part in how I decided to interpret this flaneur. I think many people would feel uneasy about shooting in a cemetery but I instead felt content. There were many times I would just stand still and there were no sounds and no movement. This photo shoot helped me work on gaining creative perspectives. There were many times while I was walking around that I had to look for unique forms and I think that's hard to do when ninety percent of the area is grave stones.

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Amalgamation

Below are my two versions of amalgamations based off of work from Nancy Burson. I ran in quite a few difficulties with these works. First, I'm brand new to photoshop and had a lot of trouble navigating through all the tools. For my Nancy Burton style amalgamation, I really struggled with aligning the portraits on top of each other. Everyone's face structure is different and it's hard to make the facial features line up, specifically the eyes. I also struggled with choosing the right opacity. I didn't want one image to be stronger than the other because then you couldn't see features from all the portraits. For my free-style amalgamation, I had trouble cropping the images to fit all six portraits in the frame. I was also difficult to vertically align the heads. However, I'd say my photoshop skills have improved from this project. Free-style amalgamation Nancy Burson Amalgamation

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Industrial Architecture: Old and New

For my final project I decided to emulate Frank Breuer, a German photographer. He was mostly know for his series of “Poles,” “Containers,” and “Logos.”When I started this project I had set out with an idea in my mind and I did my best to capture that image. I quickly ran into some obstacles. First, the weather didn’t always corporate. I wanted to capture a white sky, clear of clouds. I was able to achieve that with my first shoot but not during any of the other shoots. It was hard to get the appropriate scenery also. In my mind and similar to Breuer’s style, I wanted to isolate the buildings. However, in New Hampshire and in Manchester specifically there is a lot of clutter that impeded me from achieving my desired scenery. At the end of this project I was able to curate a collection of old industrial architecture, the mills in Manchester and new industrial architecture from the Portsmouth Tradeport. Although this project didn’t turn out the way I intended I did come out of my comfort...

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