Photography
Foundation Core Media Photography
Instructor Birthe Piontek
Your Home
What is home? These days we spent more time at home than ever. How have the COVID restrictions impacted our relationship with our home? Is it a refuge or a place of confinement? What do we see when being in the same place every day? Is it possible to rediscover or even "travel" within this place? How does it change throughout the day with the changing light? How does it smell? What do you like about it? What annoys you? Maybe your home doesn’t feel like home because you’re far from home?
Students: Valerie Ivashchenko + Angela Ruth
Yourself Transformed
For this exercise, you are going to “build on” one of your self-portraits from last week. Usually, we try to hide our Photoshop edits as much as we try to hide our flaws in an image. This exercise allows you to play with the tools while not having to worry about how to make it look seamless and perfect. Think of the image as a canvas that you can draw on, add to, copy and paste or remove from.
Students: Kimberly Ronning + Rylee Cronin
Archival Images
Working with photography doesn’t mean that you have to take pictures. A lot of artists utilize already existing images as a foundation for their photographic art practice and to visualize their artistic concepts. For this assignment, you are to research three images from an online image archive and transform them either digitally and/or manually. You can work with any image that speaks to you. The three images can be in dialogue or separate from one another.
Students: Kyungpio Han + Zara Paredis
Yourself
In three images, express yourself and who you are. The images can complement each other and work as a sequence, or each image can stand alone. You can be in front of the lens, you can only show parts of your body or just “traces” of it (i.e. shadow.)
Students: Lydia Rogers + Rhiannon Sanderson
Your Street
The subject matter of the exercise will be the street you live in. Tell us a story of your surroundings and what you see when walking in your street. You can focus on details that catch your eye, maybe you can even include a portrait of someone you encounter or who you know already (i.e. neighbour). What makes this street your street?
Students: Tannaz Saatchi + Samantha Reynolds