Photography and Video Exchange

Debbra Mack
Art3480 Photography II
Digital print 13″ x 19″

This summer I took a shorter version of Art 210 Digital Photography and did photos of mostly flowers.  I know that flowers are over done sometimes, but then there are artist that make the flower photos seem fresh no matter what.  I wanted to try for that.  I really enjoy Imogen Cunningham’s flowers.

Taylor Clark
ART 3480: Photography II
Digital Prints; 12″ x 18″
1 image out of a series of TBA

Regurgitation: There is so much power in the words we speak. The power to hurt others, as well as ourselves. I want to metaphorically portray an emotional state of one person that has faced the consequences of the words he or she has spoken. My idea starts with the subject in a sick state, vomiting pieces of paper with words on them that had been said. This thought of regurgitation reminds me of how fowl we can be toward one another, and how karma (whether it is fictional or not) plays it’s part.

Annalise Freytag
ART 5480: Photography Workshop
Digital Image from a Color Film Print; 8 x 10 Print

This image “Trash Can” is part of an independent studies I have created over the past year titled “Urban Anatomy”. It is the dissection of the beauty within everyday objects. Much of this study comes from the decay of urban structures such as: trash cans, sidewalks, plumbing, walls etc. I am trying to describe ones perception and how there is a variety of beauty within the breakdown of everything.

Alex Youkanna
ART 5480: Photography Workshop
Silver Prints; 11″ x 14″

My current set of work explores the human body, male and female. Expressing feelings and emotions through the nude figure of the male and female.

Kirsten Book-Anthony
ART 5480: Photography Workshop
Silver Gelatin Prints; 11″ x 14″
There are 8 images from this house

My current work socially studies human behavior and how others really live as opposed to their public persona. We may see someone on the street, and think they live a certain way, but if given the chance to glimpse into their private world, most would be surprised at how they live. By keeping the work as anonymous as possible, the viewer can draw his or her own conclusions as to who the person inhabiting it might be.

I enter the space with a few ideas about what I want the picture to look like compositionally, but a lot of times, it is just spontaneous. I don’t move things around in the room, because I think it would ruin the whole point of my concept. I am just documenting how that person exists in the space, and if I moved anything in that room, it would detract from the point that I am trying to make.

We judge others so much from face value and first impressions, but really have no idea who they are, until we can get a look at how they live behind closed doors.

Peter Klebba
ART 3480: Photography II
Digital Prints; 8″ x 10″

I’ve always been interested in nighttime photography. These are two photos from a series i did on the interesting effects of light on industrial locations at night time. Enjoy.

Justin Lackey
ART 3480: Photography II
Digital Prints; 8.5″ x 10″
Part of series of 8 images

My current interests is capturing artificial light at night. I find it very interesting when trying to balance the light of an image back to white how much variation there is in the nighttime world. It makes me feel like the world we are seeing at night is actually all artificial because of the many different lights combining into what we see.

Todd Draves
Art 3480: Photography II
digital prints; 7.5″ x 10″
2 images out of an 8 image series

Samantha Dooley
ART 3480: Photography II
Digital Photographs
2 from a series of 45

My original thesis idea revolved around the term ‘divine intervention’. As I’ve continued to refine my ideas and photos, the primary thought has slowly evolved into the small, beautiful moments in my life and the little epiphanies they create. In a sense, I have decided to drop the ‘intervention’ from the ‘divine’ and simply let my personal aesthetic speak for itself. These shots accompanied others taken from my home in WI, but I felt the shapes of the flames were really very striking.

Kathleen Rissi
ART 3480: Photography II
digital prints; 8″ x 10″

These images are part of an exploration of the meaning of fleeting, and how the ending of things affects us. I wanted to look at how human spirituality and the life cycles of nature are sort of intertwined. It is a relationship that leaves a lingering sad feeling, the same feeling that the closing of seasons and afternoons leave.

Shelby Winkelmann
ART 3480: Photography II
Digital Prints
Print 1 – 7″ W x 10.5″H Print 2 – 10.5″W x 7″H

Janelle Finnerty
ART 3480: Photography II
Digital Prints; 8″ x 10″
Unknown amount of images in this series.

I am unsure about the final terminology for my final thesis for this semester, but the general idea is that we forget that tombstones in essence represent a person. We then forget about these stones and they crumble and decay leaving remnants of the person that rests there. The close ups of the stones show what is left for the passerby to see hopefully causing the viewer to ask what they are making them remember.

Margaret Wolicki
ART 3480: Photography II
Digital Prints; 10″ x 6.5″

Christopher Kurtz
ART 3480: Photography II
Digital Prints; 8.5″ x 11″
Color: Series of 23

Color is a growing series of photos, that are broken down into smaller categories of specifically similar colors.