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This photo was captured on my way back to Portland Oregon from Corvallis Oregon. I was headed home from spending the weekend with my sister, celebrating my 17th birthday. Over the past ten or so years the relationships within my family have been troublesome, although I have maintained a healthy long-lasting relationship with my eldest sister Emma. We have helped each other grow, learn, and been by each others side. I love my sister dearly and in the end I would give her the award of my favorite person in the world.
I took the photo while our car had been pulled over on the side of the road off of I-5 to check the tires. The sun was setting and I loved how it reflected off the back of the highway sign. I want this picture to be a remembrance of my sister and I's relationship and how we care for each other. This picture is now a part of my past and a reminder of the friendship my sister had back then and how that relationship is so different now, yet just as wonderful. |
This photo was taken Feb. 15th in downtown Portland, OR. That day I had traveled down to the Oregon Zoo with a friend of mine and after several hours of animal watching and galavanting through the bus stops and max line tunnels we finally were able to catch the correct max line home. This was a photo I captured while listening to Britney Spears' Toxic, one ear bud in my ear and the other ear bud in my friend's ear. I was staring out the back of the max car watching the tall buildings and people pass by and the bright blue sky blinded me, leaving me to appreciate moments like these and the wonderful city I live in.
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Doors // Date
This is part two of my ongoing photography project of Doors. After getting heartwarming feedback from my first installment I felt it was fitting to create more with this beloved door. I thought of the idea of going on a lovely date with this door. Thinking of locations near me, I felt that the beach was a ideal location to capture some prime photos. The lack of humans on Oregon's coast helped to carry forward my want of little distractions from the main subject. Going into the photo shoot I understood that by the end of it I wanted to display six photos to the public. The order the photos are in are also the order they were taken.
The idea behind this is very simple: take what you will.
During my process of creating this character I had little to no intention to what the public was to get out of them but as the project has progressed I begin to see hidden meanings and interesting points of view that I can clearly see fitting this collection.
The idea behind this is very simple: take what you will.
During my process of creating this character I had little to no intention to what the public was to get out of them but as the project has progressed I begin to see hidden meanings and interesting points of view that I can clearly see fitting this collection.
Stereotypes
I was asked, as a class assignment, to somehow capture stereotypes in society. To properly capture this I went around my school asking several different students including those of different races and sexualities. Most of the students when first asked started writing down what they had been stereotyped by immediately while others gave a little more thought.
I gave very simple instructions to each subject: "What stereotypes do you have around your race, gender, or sexuality?"; "Can you please write that down on a blank piece of paper and hold it up for me"; I then captured the shot. After collecting the photos I was surprised how each subject had smiled in the photo, held the paper almost exactly the same way, and stared directly at the camera with no real instruction to do so.
I gave very simple instructions to each subject: "What stereotypes do you have around your race, gender, or sexuality?"; "Can you please write that down on a blank piece of paper and hold it up for me"; I then captured the shot. After collecting the photos I was surprised how each subject had smiled in the photo, held the paper almost exactly the same way, and stared directly at the camera with no real instruction to do so.
Doors
Take what you will. This collection was supposed to bring an outside perspective, letting the on-looker tell the story of the door.