Systemic Structures:
My favorite artistic style
is avant – garde. I chose this genre
because I like capturing images that take time to interpret, and that are
somewhat ambiguous, open to the interpretation of the viewer. I chose to photograph architectural elements
around campus in an unusual way.
Berenice Abbott, who was renowned for her unique photographic
perspectives of New York City’s concrete jungle, was my inspiration for this
project. I wanted to capture the
ordinary that surrounds us, and make it seem more extraordinary and
different. I experimented with the a
narrower aperture and a higher ISO so that I could get as much of the image
into focus as possible. I chose to make
the images black and white because, like Ansel Adams, I felt like color would
be more distracting than complimentary.
Through these images, I feel that I was able to portray the BYUH campus
in a way that is more metropolitan than it actually is. The ordinary can be
made to appear unordinary, depending on how we perceive and remember our
surroundings.
