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Photographing my Findings

For this exercise I went looked for things around my house and found this cabinet that I haven’t opened in a very long time. What I found inside the cabinet is this blanket that I used to sleep with when I was a child. This blanket was my favorite and I always slept with it until I started high school. I thought my mother threw it away because I know longer sleep with it. She told me to she kept it because she want’s to have it as a memory. Now that I know where I can find this blanket, I’m going to start sleeping with it again.
The two images shown are pictures with the hat that I used to wear to work at a very young age with my dad. I found this hat underneath another hat that was also my work hat that I used for construction. I only showed pictures of this one because this hat has a lot of meaning to me. This is my first hat that I ever used for work. I can still remember the times when my dad would call and say that he would be on his way to pick me up for work. Whenever I went to work I would get ready and always made sure that I took this hat with me. I kept this hat just like my mom did with the blanket because I also wanted to have something to keep as a memory.

Cindy Sherman

After watching the documentary I learned more about self portraits and the different ways we can capture images of ourselves. Cindy took pictures of herself using different clothing and/or hair style as if there were different people. She mentioned in the documentary that she used to dress up as a man so that the men in her neighborhood would leave her alone. This pushed her to then take pictures of herself and every picture she took had a different personality. It was interesting to see because to me it tells me that we can invent our on identity if we want to. Another thing that caught my attention were the pictures that she took of the dolls. I was creepy at first, but then I realized how cool the images were because the feeling that I got from it. I felt haunted just by looking at the images and I remembered that my mom gave me a doll when I graduated from high school. Although this images gave a spooky vibe, I got a memory out of it as well.

Virtual Musuem “Visit”

Looking at the images from “Out of the Shadows: Contemporary Chinese Photography”, I was inspired from the photographs that were being shown in the exhibition. A couple of the images were shot in black and white, so I decided to create something similar like the Chinese artists. Seeing their work motivated me to find different ways on how I want to edit my pictures. Just like the Chinese artists, I want to push the boundaries and create something different. When I saw the image of the landscape (The Yangtze River) it gave me a different idea of how I should edit my pictures. I focused more on black and white because it helps show more of the details and creates a different sense of environment or feeling. The images I took that are seen above is something new I started to work on. They look a lot different from what I took from my past exercises. For some reason I can’t work on something I must present like these past exercises. I take pictures of anything that catches my eye, not something I have to look for. I usually work with saturation and vibrance, but this time I wanted to push myself and edit pictures with just black and white. I look forward to visiting one of these exhibitions to get more ideas for photography. It’s been a while since I’ve gone to a museum and hopefully after COVID 19 is over, I’ll be able to work with other photographers as well.

Cyanotype

Working on the cyanotype was a fun experience. I love the way the way the images appear with just these blue and white colors. The baby picture turned out to be over exposed. Same thing happened with me working on the car, so I had to redo it because I guess I didn’t rinse it for too long like I did the first time. The images above are pictures of myself when I was a kid and a picture of me all grown up. Growing up, my father did his best to raise me to become a man. I did a lot of hard work starting from a young age and would hardly spend time playing with toys. When I would play dolls with my sister he would start yelling at us and would tell me to go crush can or peel wires. My dad would always keep me close to his side to do the “manly” work and I would get upset because always wanted to play outside with my friends. It would be rare whenever my dad would let me go play outside, but when I had the chance I would run all over my neighborhood and relieve the tension that I had inside of me. My dad worked a lot on his car when I was kid. He would always have issues with the trucks the he own and never wanted to buy a new one. Most of the time I would help him fix it and now that I’m all grown up I do the simple maintenance for him.
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