Final Projects

I struggled with this project because I had hard time getting the darker pictures to look good. I also had a hard time finding times when the church was open to shoot. I was trying to make the pictures look creepy and dark.

Contact sheet for Narrative Social landscape.

Narrative social landscape update.

More churches in Durham. 

Class portrait.

Second attempt. 

So this is my class portrait of everyones faces meshed together. I am defiantly not proud of it and it is very scary but this was my first time doing anything like this. I really wanted it to be realistic looking but when I came to the realization that that was just not going to happen I embraced the fact that it was messy and scary looking. I let it look like a collage in every aspect. I believe it was described at jungle like during class so I embraced that and I definitely believe I succeeded in making it jungle like. When I do finally get the chance to do something like this again I believe I will have a better idea on how to go about it.

Progress on the narrative social landscape project.

When I actually understood what this project was about I immediately thought of religion. I have always been fascinated by religions impact on society and spiritual stories of any kind. Therefore for this project I thought it would be a good idea to document different places that represent religion or any other place that brings it into society.

september 11th

On september 11th when the twin towers where hit I was in school in 5th grade. I remember my teach walking into the class after recess and closing the door turning off the lights and explaining to us that the twin towers were hit by just one plane at that point. I remember not knowing what the twin towers were or what all of this meant however no one really did at this point anyway. We took time in the class to discuss the building and why or how this could possibly happen. There was a knock on the door and my teacher was informed that the second tower was hit by a plane as well. My mom had called the school and asked to come get me along with several other students in my class. However the school advised them to let us stay there so we did. We spent the rest of the day talking about the situation and the school made an effort to keep it as calm as possible.
I remember going home and my sisters already being home and my dad was home from work already. I remember barely understanding what all this terrorist attack talk meant. I remember thinking how scared I was that my neighborhood would be a war zone the next day. It was all crazy to think about but at the time I was young and it was a serious situation and I didn't know what to expect. My teacher talked about how it was the longest he had ever watch tv for the next day. He said he was just watching the news for hours along with the rest of the nation.

favs from social landscape narrative.