So I have been looking up different photography in which projections have been used in order to get some more solid ideas for my "A World Once Known" project. While most of the photography is images and patterns projected onto the human body, the stuff that I have found has been giving me some ideas about how to use color in my images. I was thinking that I would print my studio images (the ones to be projected) in either black and white or a very low saturation and having the finished images in color. But then again, I didn't know if that sounded too obvious for a solution to show that the projected images are of the past? I like the idea, but I don't want to add unnecessary emphasis.
I also had another idea for the project...Originially, I thought that I would just use one image per house I visited, but then I thought that I could go to several different rooms of each house, and even do some exterior shots and work to convey a specific feel for each house and the people who may have lived in it. And then my final series would show three or four (or possibly more) different homes with several images of each within (a layout sort of like my human trafficking one, just a different subject matter).
Feedback and other ideas are appreciated. =]
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Thursday, January 26, 2012
My Vision
For as long as I have had the burden on my heart for missions and a passion for photography, I never really viewed the two simultaneously. It was my idea that I would essentially have two separate jobs throughout my career. Within the last few years, though, while narrowing my personal direction of my photography, I have seen that I have no need to separate the two in the way I have always done. With a specific burden for victims of human trafficking, I can use my photography to raise awareness before I even begin my work on the mission field. Therefore, I have been using my burden for these victims as fuel for my photography.
It is so easy for people in America to live in their comfortable lives and block out the horrible things of the world. But I don’t believe we are supposed to live that way. God made us to depend on one another and we all have a chance at one point in time or another to help those who are in need. While I am finishing up my college career, the easiest way for me to get involved in the fight against trafficking is to inform the people who come in contact with my art that it is a real problem.
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