Photography
As a Studio Arts minor, I took 15 credit hours of photography classes and practiced various styles and skills, including street photography, studio portraiture, and darkroom printing. Below you’ll find a few of my projects.
A team project exploring our visions of the future... we saw a world where the corporate American office is not devoid of personality, but full of play. Using backdrops, props, models, costumes, and studio lighting techniques, we created a technicolor dreamscape where one's personal and professional lives can seamlessly mix and define one another. The vibrant, CMYK-inspired color scheme brings a sense of creativity and play, and the anachronistic mixing of technology creates a surrealist irony that satirizes office culture. I served as a co-art director and photographer for this project and was behind the camera for most shots.
A project exploring the intersections of classicism and alternativism through the perspective of Molly, a violinist in a punk band called Crescent Parkway. Baroque-inspired lighting and color are used throughout to create a classic feel that highlights the tradition of violin music and juxtaposes the modern, alternative nature of the band.
A series of studio self-portraits exploring agency and play by disrupting my usual process of portrait-making. Though I set up all the technical elements of each shot, I allowed myself to be posed and instructed by a collaborator, essentially placing myself both behind and in front of the camera as a practice of relinquishing control. I captured these photos on 120mm film and developed and printed each photo in the darkroom myself.
