15 Credit Review

In just a few short hours, I have my 15 credit review. A review of the work that I have been making for the last semester by graduate faculty from the photography department as well as the departments from around Tyler.  Seeing the work that I've made over the last 3+ months and its progression, I really feel as though I've pushed past my comfort zone in the way I present my photographs as well as why I make them.  All of this progress and the trajectory of my work at this point in time feels right and reaffirms that graduate school was the right decision.

Barring a major catastrophe (and the half-done paper due Saturday by 9am), I am done for the semester. Now on to 5 weeks of making.

Size

I've been trying to deal with the scale of my photographs. While I am truly in love with the intimacy of a contact print and the richness and detail that can come with it, they are somewhat counter to the goal of photographs which is to allow the viewer to enter the scene. To that end I've made a series of large prints and created situations in which the viewer can experience the space. Here are two:

The other thing that I'm working on involves making tiny prints that are designed to travel with its viewer and allow the viewer to be transported, consciously or subconsciously, into nature simply by referencing the photograph. One of the first iterations of this idea is a series of small notebooks with a small landscape photograph on the cover (available here). The viewer/user now lives with and uses this object, choosing whether or not to interact with the image on the cover.