Camila Souza - Final Project

For my final project, I took pictures of things that composes my daily life in Eugene. These things are trivial and normally people do not pay attention on them. But, after all, they have their own beauty. This project has a sad connotation because I am leaving Eugene in a few days, and probably I am not coming back here anymore. In conclusion, this project shows a aspect of my life that will not come back.

Matt Staib - Final

Derek Chesnut Final Project

For my final project I have created six masks and taken portraits of myself wearing each one. As a sculptor my work has naturally gravitated towards creating my own forms and using that as a basis for photography. For each mask I used a sample of items that occupy our everyday lives; Cotton balls, underwear, office labels, shoes, latex gloves, and toilet paper. I am interested in the performative aspect of these works, and the documentation of an ephemeral sculpture. 

Vannie Cooper_Final Project

The title of my Final Project is “Happiness is Black and White.”  I photographed portraits of my sister in different stages of laughter.  It starts off in full color and as the photos progress, the laughter increases and so does that amount of black and white.  The final image of the piece will be full black and white and the most intense laughter will take place.  

Brian Herring – Final Project

     For my final project, I wanted to create a series of portraits exploring identity in similitude to Jack Pierson, Cindy Sherman, and Zoe Crosher. In the world we live in, we conceal our own identities behind masks in the form of Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and numerous other social media. Fostered by the pervasiveness of social media and electronic communication, disconnectedness is inherent in young adulthood. Take a look around and observe the average college-age, earphone-wearing, smartphone-using 20-somethings who walk around and among other humans completely unaware of them or lacking any desire to communicate with them. We don’t know them. They don’t know us. Is it egocentrism? Narcissism? Our preference for artificial identities rendered through social media typifies our post-modern age.

Final Project - Veronique Huynh

With this final project, I wanted to explore another style of photography that I am not used to.  I usually find landscape to be more challenging in terms of how to angle the main subject in the photograph.  Especially with scenes that are mostly flat, I find that a lot of the time it is far more difficult to take simplicity and transform it into something that is aesthetically pleasing.  I took inspiration from Richard Misrach because I enjoyed his concept of "in the moment" snapshot landscape photography.  Obviously, none of the scenes in these photographs are staged with artificial lighting or stylized by a landscape architect.  Because they were spur of the moment snapshots, waiting for the right lighting was key.  

Final Project - Martin Allums

 My work is a spin-off idea of the paintings that Eric Fischl creates.  Fischl was is an interesting person because he is a painter who paints with photographic reference. I wanted to flip this process and photograph with a painter's reference, so instead of painting in a traditional way, I used light painting. I took candid photos in which I performed various tasks/positions, and used the light to trace a figure around my body. Since these images were long exposure, I was able to abstract myself for the most part so that the focus would be on the light figure (like a figure painting).

Final Project: Leah Bierly

              With my final project I wanted to investigate into my interest in portrait photography, specifically into the creation and exploration of identity. As a theatre major focused in costume design, a huge part of my work deals exactly with the creation of different characters visually, and how changing clothing, posture, and makeup can change someone’s character. With this in mind, I approached this project with the intention of using mostly makeup to create different characters. For the format of the images, I also chose something relevant to my work in theatre, and took a straight on documentary approach, as opposed to placing these characters in a more natural environment, to recreate the type of photos designers give actors as a makeup plot. I felt this was a practical way of merging my biggest passion into this final project.