Final Project Proposal

Kyle Reeves

ARTO 354

Kaiser

5/11/11

Final Project Proposal

1.     What?-

With this project I plan on continuing to shoot more photographs of people, which has been my original goal for the course. I think I will turn towards the construction of staged narratives, which I studied in chapter 4 of The Photograph as Contemporary Art. I want to set up uncomfortable situations, possibly with two of the same subjects interacting with each other. I think my work in this project will vary as far as concept. I also want to vary each setting in different light types, shooting as much as possible in natural lights.

2.     Why?-

I am planning on working with staged narratives because I have been intrigued after studying the chapter on Tableau photographs. Using interactions between the same person in a double exposure or stitched images will force me to take pictures of people. I found ways to avoid taking portraits throughout the last few projects, which I think is unavoidable with this. I really like the strange outcome of some built settings; the surreal aspect will be difficult to build, because it is something I have yet to explore.

3.     How?-

I want to travel as much as possible, to get a wide variety of scenarios. I will shoot 2-3 shots of the same person, one clearly noticing the other. It should come across as seeing identical twins. I will also vary depth in this series by bringing a subject closer to the front in one, and in the next images, move their position backwards so that it builds a sense of layering. I am not going to constrain myself to certain light types in this project because my schedule never left me with enough time to accomplish everything I had planned in previous projects.

4.     References and Inspiration-

While researching my paper, I came across work by Sarah Small, who builds these strange family scenes with characters that are so drastically different. I think it will be interesting to direct things, instead of looking for natural occurrences. After the lecture on panoramas and stitching techniques, I also was inspired to test this process out. I think the outcome will be something that I have never accomplished before.

5.     Personal Accomplishment-

This project is going to accomplish my previous goal for the course of shooting more photographs of people. It is also going to be entirely new process for me, because I have never used the stitching tool in Photoshop before. I also rarely direct scenes to capture, which will be an aspect of every photograph in this series. Overall, it will be less structured then previous assignments, so I will be able to accomplish anything I can think of. It will be about building situations rather then searching for them.