Midterm critique

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Last week we had our critique for the midterm exam. At first I was nervous to be critiqued by the staff and faculty. Not for the reason of being scared of the criticism received but nervous as how you would be before a performance. I found what the faculty said to be very insightful. A positive thing I got out of it was hearing other peoples input of what could be done to my work to improve. The only negative thing I took out of it was not being able to hear and get separate and complete input from each staff member more thoroughly.

Gallery post.

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I am making a series of digital photographs depicting the form of the human body in an intimate way. Creating this was my response and retaliation to the unattainable body standards in todays society. For inspiration, I looked towards Sally Mann’s feel of intimacy and familiarity and Imogen Cunningham’s botanicals for its implied sensuality, it’s minimalist look, and use of form.

More works in progress.

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I continue to photograph the body and this time I have had the chance of being able to use different people as models. It makes it easier that I also have models that are comfortable with such an intimate and more revealing subject matter. This time I tried a little bit of a different approach and this time I tried to go a little softer focus. I feel like it fits well as it adds a a different feeling from the other image I created before.

Texture and form.

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To try to make things more interesting, I decided to try to challenge myself a bit and attempted to obscure the body even more. One of the images I composed was this one. I feel like the image has a very strong sense of form. It also has a sense of texture within the image showing the many imperfections and bumps on the skin.

Continuation of the body.

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I continue to to photograph the human body. There’s something so interesting about it. It has so many textures and shapes. I only wonder is how long can I photograph a body until it all becomes the same. Below is a photograph I’m particularly proud of. I think what makes the image is definitely the amount of high contract and she amount of detail seen in the fingers and a gentle silhouette of the hands. by far this is one of my favorite images so far.

Works in progress.

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During the last couple of days I’ve been working on a few images. I had this incredibly interesting idea to study the human body. I feel like my photographs are done and finished but I also can’t help but to feel as they need more work. I love the softness of the light and how the shadows in my images exaggerate the curves of the body. The images are very intimate and almost abstract in some forms.

I enjoy the idea of studying the body. The body is a work in itself and I think I might have a good idea of what I’ll be working on during the semester. I do have some other ideas but I’m pretty confident in this concept.

Below are the images that I worked on :

Always creating.

For the class that I am in, my professor told us one thing that is key to his course and that is to keep creating. I find this to be a very easy yet at the same time a difficult task. Easy cause I always have many ideas and hard because I need to find time in my schedule. Lately though I have been feeling creative and motivated.

I ended up finding some old photographs from when I visited Paris. So many pieces that I forgot I had! Just looking at all the photos that were left untouched art! Then out of nowhere It’s like my brain started to go crazy and it’s like a storm if ideas and themes came to me.

Here are some potential unedited photos I plan to use and edit soon! I honestly have a really good feeling about this.