A stunning portrayal of Cuba, from picture to picture.

For all of you narcissists out there this week will be most joyful. For this week we will create an Artist’s Statement that we will use at the end of the Semester. Why now? Because now is the perfect time to figure out what sort of style you have, and what sort of process you go through to create your photos. Maybe you are drawn to one specifc type of photography. Maybe shooting pictures of old buildings is your thing. Maybe you are like me and try to find the inner darkness in everyday objects and use photography as a way to bring them out more.

Here’s what you do.

Part 1:

1. Upload your favorite five images you’ve taken so far this year to your WordPress blog.
2. Look for similarities in theme and tone.
3. Jot down a few adjectives on your work.
4. Jot down a few more adjectives that describe your personality.
5. How do they fit together? Are the two sets of adjectives different or similar.

Part 2:

1. Take the work you have done from Part 1 and begin to create a first draft of your Artist Statement. Make sure the Artist Statement is a good representation of you, your personality and most importantly, your photography.

2. Once you have all of the information, include the notes taken from Part 1 and the formal Artist Statement from Part 2 and include both in the final version you turn into me as this week’s Focus Assignment

3. Make a new page on your blog entitled “Artist Statement” an include your final statement on this page.

Here are a few references and examples of simple, yet effective artist statements.

How to write an effective and clear Artist Statement

Below is the Artist statement for Angela Bacon Kidwell:

My photography comes from a life long obsession of exploring how my subconscious generates my dreams. As I move through my day, I am keenly aware of my encounters with people, places and things. I mentally record the details of these situations, and the physical or emotional responses that they evoke. These fleeting associations replay themselves in my dreams. The random moments combine to form sleep stories that are rich narratives, ripe with symbolism. With that as my model, I construct sets, use props and invite myself and models to perform in a natural, intuitive way. In essence, I attempt to create a waking dream.

For me, it is about being in the moment of a planned vision. That is were I’m most connected to my creativity.

In the series, “Traveling Dream”, I’m not illustrating a specific story, but creating unresolved moments from which the viewer must imagine a beginning and end. In this way, my images can become personal, each viewer lost in their own dream story within mine.

Minimum 300 words.

file name:period number_firstname_lastname_focus_10.doc

This assignment is due into my drop box before November 20th, 2009.

Brett Earl

Elyseo Nagel

James Goncalves

Max Schenk

This week you will dive into this photo challenge by featuring water somewhere in your shot. You could feature water in its liquid state, as solid, or as vapour.

Please avoid the obvious ideas like photos of water bottles, water fountains etc, lets think out of the box people!

JPEG Magazine’s Water Ripple Theme

file name: period number_firstname_lastname_photochallenge_water.jpg

This assignment is due into my drop box and posted to your flickr account before, 11/20/2009

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OK guys, sorry I couldn’t be in today, looking after sick kid and Mom. It’s just a cold though, so no worries.

Continue working on your ISO and Focal Length Focus Assignments. Catch up on any missing work, especially Focus assignments! Almost all of you fit into the category of missing at least one.

The Get Close Photo Challenge will still be due on Friday.

If you have finished everything, post photos to your flickr accounts, and the the HHS Photography group and make comments on at least five other students’ works

Remember all of you need to have a blog up and running before the end of the semester. No time like the present.

I will be back tomorrow for picture taking and some serious voting!!