1. In my photos, I wanted to photograph the facets of daily life, specifically photos of infrastructure and nature that we see everyday, and take and edit the photos, to include a little bit of everything that I learned during this course such as formal elements of photography, abstraction, and portraiture. My success criteria were, in the photos that I take and choose, I should 1. Include the different techniques, while focusing on the facets of daily life 2.Match and try to emanate the photographic style of Wynn Bullock, and 3. Make my audience reflect on the hidden rhythms of daily life, and in the four photos that I chose, I think that I did a remarkably good job of taking the photos that I wanted to take, and initiating my success criteria. My photos included modern infrastructure, different aspects of nature such as trees and plants. I successfully included those elements in my photographs to a sense of abstraction, for example through repetition, and delivered ideas that allowed for reflection using the elements that I learned from portraiture. As for the second criteria, I believe that I emanated Wynn Bullock’s style of photography very well. Wynn Bullock was a passionate man, trying to deliver creative aspects and the extraordinary of everyday to his audience through photographing various subjects and backgrounds. Although the subject that I could take photos of were limited, I was still able to get the same amount of diversity that Wynn Bullock had in infrastructure, and nature. In the same way that Wynn Bullock’s photos show the wonders and beauties of the world, allowing the viewer to look and marvel at, my photos set a calm and quiet aspect, revealing the hidden rhythms of daily life, allowing the viewer to reflect, and think about the world that they live in.  I also emanated Wynn Bullocks lighting style, as he often adjusts the tone of the photograph to convey a strong contrast in the photos, allowing the viewers to focus purely on the subjects and background itself, rather than judging the color.
  2.  The artist of my inspiration is Wynn Bullock. Born in Chicago Illinois, Wynn Bullock developed his interest in photography during the late 1920s while living in Paris. Originally pursuing a career as a concert singer, Bullock became fascinated with the works of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters, which led him to discover the photography of Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy. This exposure sparked an immediate affinity for photography as an art form uniquely based on light and as a creative means to engage with the world. He bought his first camera and began taking pictures, marking the beginning of his photographic journey. Taking a look at his photos, it is clear that tone and lighting is his forte, as he alters the tone and lighting to convey a sense of abstraction and creativity in almost all of his photos. We can see he also finds creative ways to engage the world with the setting or subject of the photograph. The settings of his photo aren’t just a specific genre or field, it is rather anything that comes to his mind. An apple, mountain, dinosaur skull, you name it! He has taken photos various places around the world, which is a method/technique that I admire, and is what I tried to emanate as much as possible in this unit.
  3. I think that I indeed explored the theme of “working the scene” in this unit. This is because, when I was traveling around Shine, everything was random. Everything seemed wrong and out of place in my eyes, and I did not know what photos I should take in order to get the best out of each and every one of them. So, I just took random photos, whatever came to mind still considering the fact that I needed to focus on my theme, and the concepts that I created. And, suddenly, out of pure chance, photos began to appear. Out of pure randomness, all the techniques styles and different concepts that I had explored in my months as a photographer began to appear. Some only had one technique, or style, while other had all of them. I think that in my trip to Shine, I took some wonderful photos with wonderful techniques, which I did not know would happen at the start. I think that I “worked the scene” and made the best out of it.
  4. As for the display, I am planning to display 3 of my best photos in a tryptich, or have 4 “best” photos that I took. I have 3 really good photos that have modern infrastructure, or nature as a background with a touch of portraiture, to establish a powerful sense of connection with the photo to the audience. However, I also have a really good photo that has modern infrastructure as the background, and has an empty road, with an endless, and quite road that leaves the viewer in reflection about the hidden rhythms of daily life. I think that I could do 4 photos, the first three being the portraiture-related photos that establish a strong connection with the audience through different subjects, and end with a quite endless road, full of infinite possibility, leaving viewers reflecting and wondering about the hidden beauties and rhythm of everyday life.
  5. As for things that are personal about my work, I really enjoy taking pictures of modern infrastructure and nature, so that made a big impact on my decision of which facets of daily life that I want to photograph. The second thing that is personal about my style of photography, is the calm setting, that does not have a lot in the image, allowing the viewers to sit back, reflect, and focus on the small part of the photograph, or in my interpretation, the “small parts of life” that really matter. I like to photograph this way because it reminds me of when I was really young, and me and my family would go to quite urban cities in Korea and Japan. The quite ally way, with the sun shining down in the late afternoon, just allowed me to sit back and reflect on what I have and the beauties of life, and I really enjoyed that experience. So, I am also trying to emulate that aspect through my photography in this unit.
  6. I hope that my viewers would understand and reflect the rhythms of daily life. One of my photos named “by-passer” has a picture of a statue staring at all the buildings and modern infrastructure, allowing the viewer to watch with him all the beauties of daily life, the clock in the photo symbolizes the endless passage of time, and the routine-like events of our daily lives. However, the photos later on, have nature, peace, and calm in them. By looking at my photos I hope that my viewers could understand that no matter how some days seem, there is a moment of peace, a moment of calm allowing us to reflect on the beauty and hidden rhythms of daily life, and I hope my viewers can also understand that they should be thankful for these moments in life.
  7. If I had more time, I think I also would have liked to try experimenting with shadows, and how they could affect my photographic style of everyday life. Shadows often symbolize darkness, and could portray an aspect of darkness, and the bad events that we experience in everyday life. Another thing that I want to try is trying to have the subjects in my photos expose their face a bit more, (which is very hard in street photography) that will allow more analysis, and better interpretations of the photos that I took.