Project 52 Final Projects:
These are some of the final projects turned in by our members for 2014.
David Price:
“This project grew out of some recent discussions about drawing inspiration from anyone, anything, and everything around you. I admit, I drew a lot of inspiration for this idea from Irene Liebler’s series she did across last year of Common and Idiomatic Phrases – Feet To The Fire, Leaving The Nest, and so on. I thought that idea would be something I could do in my own style. I love her work, but I don’t see the world the way she does, and that’s a Good Thing™. I love that, having seen it week in and week out, we can all take the same subject and come up with completely different results.
I am doing this idea of taking old proverbs, common phrases, and idioms because it will lead to some interesting photographic possibilities, and be expandable far beyond a 5-10 shot series. I like this personal project for me, specifically, because those possibilities can extend through all of the artistic forms I enjoy working with, from portraits to still life, composites, and a whole lot of concept work. Heh, concept work: This was the area I really wanted to concentrate on for this last P52 project, as I see it as needing the most development in my own artistic growth going forward.
I hope you enjoy the series. I did!”
Nicole Fernley:
“These five images come from a larger selection of images that I recently shot for The Cheese Lover’s Cookbook, so the common thread is, of course, cheese. The cookbook author made most of the food, and we worked together to style the shots—and sample the food. Bonus. I was grateful that Don had said over and over “Shoot to layout!” because I had the sense to ask for image size. Finding out the images were expected to fill an 8×9 page was extremely helpful—limiting, but helpful.
This set is probably not as personal as Don had expected for this final assignment, but I’m submitting them because they represent something important to me—my first paying commercial photography assignment. At the beginning of Project 52, Don had said he hoped everyone would get at least one paying commercial gig before the Project was over. I was pretty sure I was going to be the exception because I had so much more to learn than everybody else. Surprise! I got a gig. And it kicked my butt…but I learned a lot.”
Sam Breach:
“One of my goals for this year was to work more with stylists to create editorials. ?By posting in a local Facebook group I managed to connect with a student stylist and agreed to work on a project for her. This was a good learning curve for me in Commercial terms because she chose both the location and the wardrobe. It was my job just to turn up at the location and shoot and then edit the photos afterwards. I, myself, am a careful planner, usually test shooting and practicing in advance, but this time I forced myself to just turn up and see what I could do with the situation. It was a crazy weather day, very unusual for the area, with fast moving storm clouds stretching across an otherwise brilliant blue sky, so the light would change from diffuse to harsh every few minutes without warning. The stylist had chosen a great location so there were a ton of interesting options for the backgrounds. In post processing I did a lot of colour work and hazing to give the editorial a much warmer, more jungle-like atmosphere and to reiterate a sense of Summer to reflect the clothing.”
Catherine Vibert:
“Environmental Portraits & Personal Branding. Through the course of the year of the Project 52, I found that my favorite subject to shoot is people. I especially love to photograph people doing what they love to do. All of the people in these photographs work for themselves, determine their own hours, their own schedules, and have built their worlds out of a passion for their work. I wanted to tell the story of what they do when that was possible. I went to each of their houses and photographed the story of their day. These images, combined with written stories, will be used on my blog to promote my marketing plan, which is to help people get beyond stock photography on their websites and social media. To help small businesses have beautiful images that tell their stories, so their customers can connect with the real human beings behind the brand.”
Anna Gunn:
“Concept: a girl who carries her dreams in a suitcase. These dreams aren’t plans, or in any way constructive – they are merely a distraction from the beautiful, fleeting moments that life places in front of her. Yet they are so dominant over her, so heavy, that they spill out of the suitcase and intertwine with the real world… and still she carries them around.”
Jay Chatzkel:
A Day in the Life of the Neighborhood (PDF)
Carol Rioux:
“I chose to make a series of portraits of a single person. I chose this project because I am very interested in everything that constitutes a person as it is important to me to capture who a person is not just a pretty picture. I photographed parts of the subject, which progressively make up the most of the entire individual but never completely. We made many images and it was difficult to limit the choices and parts to create a whole person. Is it just parts of the body, personal interests or a combination of both? I changed my choices a hundred times as she also loves reading, writing and hot chocolate. Choosing an editing style was also difficult because finding a style that suited all the images was a challenge. I feel like I captured a part of her being – attractive, edgy, confident, private, and capable… We shot outdoors at different times over a couple day to maximize the effects of the sun. I brought strobes and flashes but only ended up using the sun and reflectors.”
Ander Eriksson:
Jean Pierre DeRycke
Tomas Jansson
The review:
