RED – LUST
Orange – hopeful
YELLOW – FRESH
Yellow Green – relaxed
Turquoise – Scary
Violet – Infatuated
Charlie,wearing a crystal earrings, looks down and smiles, NTU, Singapore, 2015, shot by iPhone 6
Charlie is so excited about the dinner with this guy whom she met last night. It is the first date since she broke up with her ex-boy friend last year, which makes her so nervous that she don’t know how to begin the conversation 10mins before heading to the restaurant.
Charlie sits on a bridge and her shoes are about to touch the water, NTU, Singapore, 2015, shot by iPhone 6
Charlie sits on a bridge in NTU after a dinner with her new date. But it seems it didn’t go well just now. She is getting frustrated and disappointed of herself. Not only because is the date, but also is the pressure from her family.
Charlie sits on the top of staircase, NTU, Singapore, 2015, shot by iPhone 6
Finally, Charlie moves over the unsuccessful date that she expected. Now what she can do is to find a job and get back to her normal life.
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favour fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction
Ice is also great
And would suffice.
In my interpretation, fire represents human desire towards natural resources. Whereas, ice expresses hatred towards human themselves, which leads human destruction even deeper and thoroughly. I used images of China air pollution, as a result of burning too much coal and other mechanical materials. Cold war images, like Cuba Missile Crisis photo, and two presidents from USA and Soviet Union depicts two different ideology, which leads hatred and revenge. Desire and hatred have same effect of terminating human race.
But hatred has more power to destroy the whole world.
In the overall composition, images are split into two to bring up the comparison between desire and hatred. In the first image, the pollution cloud and nuclear bomb merge into one cloud to show the similar effect of desire and hatred. The second image depicts an end of the world scene by imitating multiple exposure effects. The third image portrays the difference between two countries. And fourth image depicts Cuba Missile Crisis which is the most dangerous threat to human in history.
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3025175/us-products-made-in-china-causes-an-extra-full-day-of-smog-a-year-in-los-angeles#2
National Archives image (208-N-43888)
Photo by Xiao Lu Chu/Getty Images
Benxi heavy steel industries in February 2013/Photo by Andreas Habich
http://photos.sulekha.com/albums/members/bilingual/slideshow/351242.htm
https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2015/01/11/trouble-cuba-call-pope/w81Qu2D1hgVspZgraWUYEM/story.html
President Kennedy meets with U.S. Army officials during the Cuban Missile Crisis/Corbis
CIA reference photograph of Soviet medium-range ballistic missile (SS-4 in U.S. documents, R-12 in Soviet documents) in Red Square, Moscow/From Wikipedia
I believe the best way to understand a person is not only looking through his physical features, but also presenting what does and love. That’s why I’m using indirect method like ID passes, letters from friends, movie tickets and sports gear to portray my existence, personality and interests. It creates a photo staging by lying stuff on the ground.
3 images are laid in one line where “identity”, which has a different backdrop, is in the middle. It enables viewer to observe the center image first.
Artist reference: Chien-Chi Chang
I was inspired by some of the works from a serial called Jet Lag, done by the Magnum photographer Chien-Chi Chang. These photos were taken during his overseas assignments in the hotel. By lying all his passes and other belongings, I can easily understand what he had been busy with and what purpose his trip is. It is the clarity that inspired me to showcase my belongs in Task 1 to represent myself.
http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=MAGO31_10_VForm&ERID=24KL53ZLJS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chien-Chi_Chang
Photography is my favorite interest. That’s why camera plays an important role in my life. When I’m photographing, I’ll be more energetic and passionate about everything around me. I used a fast shutter speed to capture the motion. And the most essential part of camera is the lens and the rings on it. By taken a close up of my finger touching it carefully and camera’s perspective of viewing me, the images portray a intimate relationship between me and my camera.
Botanic garden is a significant place for me to relax and enjoy the nature. Whenever I feel worn out, I’ll go there to refresh myself. And I also used to hang out and picnic in Botanic Garden with my girlfriend, which are signified by a pair of shadows overlapping to each other. However, some of part of Botanic Garden remains undiscovered. The blur on a child’s face on the third image symbolise the fear and curiosity of nature. Overall, there are alway two people through out the images to depict companionship, which also has been place according to the rule of third.
The technique of shooting the third image was inspired by a unique method. The lens has to be detached from the camera body. You will get the blurring and focusing effect by manually adjusting the lens distance toward the sensor.
http://gizmodo.com/5679403/101-photos-taken-with-the-lens-detached
Project 1 has been a journey of re discovering myself. It allows me to ponder what makes me me and what is essential to me. By manipulating different photographic methods, like photo staging, cropping and framing, I have learnt each of them has a unique way of telling a story.
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