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PDF ^ For this project, I focused on the different textures surrounding my life. I tried to document a wide variety of things, from my house to the beach and to the salt water tank my girlfriend has in our room. It was fun to focus on the details of the different things I documented,Continue reading “Final project: Texture photobook”

For this project, I went around the house I am staying in and found this interesting dress in a closet in the back room, apparently it belonged to my girlfriend’s grandmother and she used to wear it to dance parties back in the 70s. So, for my Cindy Sherman project I decided to document myContinue reading “Sketch 10”

Today I visited MOMA virtually, although I wish it could’ve been in person it was still nice to do it online. During the visit, there were a couple different exhibitions, the one that caught my eye was the “Celebrating Five Women Artists” exhibit. I am currently taking a contemporary women artist class, and we talkContinue reading “MOMA Visit”

For this week, we were ask to experiment with Cyanotypes. I used a couple of photographs I took and made them black and white then inverted them to use, unfortunately it took a couple tries because it didn’t come out dark enough… so I used an image that had really high contrast and printed it.Continue reading “Sketch 9”

In the film LA originals, they focused a lot of the story on Cartoon the tattoo artist, and Estevan Oriol the photographer. Estevan is a well know photographer in the hip-hop culture and he gained his success through the people he hangout with including Cartoon. I loved the way he captures people’s essence, being able toContinue reading “LA Originals”

For my final project, instead of doing the community project I would like to do. something else, and change it to the focus on macro photography, I would like to document the nature up close and find patterns through plants, flowers and insects. I love repetitions and the nature so I think this would beContinue reading “Final Project Idea”

This project we focused on photographing the body, I really liked how abtract the photographs turned out. For the black and white photos, it took me a while to manipulate the light source, and to figure out what was the best position for my model. I ended up covering all the windows in the room,Continue reading “Sketch 8”

This week we watched a documentary about the photographer Robert Mapplethrope, I found it interesting that photography wasn’t his first medium and that he didn’t like taking pictures that much in his early years. Later on, he became really passionate about it and was determined to become famous and known, I found it interesting thatContinue reading “Robert Mapplethrope”

For this project, we were asked to make a double exposure photograph. I found some images I had took of my dogs and decided to use that as the main subject, the second photo I overlaid is a picture of a flower bush I took near my house. I screened the image and lowered theContinue reading “Sketch 7”

Family Project Reflection For this project, we were asked to create a family portrait project. The image I chose to start with is an old family photo that had most of my family members in the image back in Taiwan, it was an old image that was on display in our house back home, IContinue reading “Family Portrait”