Senior Review Practice

Yesterday day we had a practice senior review of sorts. All three senior workshop teachers critiqued our work in front of our respective classes. The critiques were a little fast paced but they had to cover around 30 people in less than 4 hours. It was an intense experience but went over a lot better and less stressfully then I thought, but it was probably a cake walk compared to the actual senior reviews at the end of the month. Overall I got some good feedback and things went a hell of a lot better than I thought they might go. I had been shooting new stuff late night Tuesday, with the most finicky of camera I have ever shot with, the Phase One P25 digital back on a Hassleblad 503CW body, but when it did work it was marvelous. I was shooting in one of our tiny studios and was practically shooting from in the hallway at times because of the lens I was using. I didn't get home until well after three in the morning and somehow made it back to school an hour before my classes critique started and managed to edit and get three 16"x20" prints made and a thesis statement that I was actually sort of happy with done before the 1 o'clock critique. 

I've returned to my work on books and have started destroying the books more in an effort to more fully transform them. I'm still having difficulty dealing with the text as I am more interested in it as a visual element most of the time, and tend to glaze over the actual text. I used shallow depth of field to attempt to make most of the background text illegible but there is still some problem text in a few images. I have another meeting coming up next week so it looks like there are a lot more late nights shooting with the Phase back. I wanted to shoot film, but this is turning out to be much more practical at the moment (when it works) and much easier than scanning negatives. I really like the first two of these images but I'm hoping to make a lot of progress visually over the course of the month. Everything may eventually end up as a non-silver print but I like these images as they are right now.

"Untitled"

"Privacy"

"Corridors"