Final shoot number 3 Shaylee Smith

Final Project - Test shots - Taylor Jennings

final proj. shoot 2- reagan s

Artist statement (rough draft)

The dark corners of our world are often a mystery. They are overlooked, avoided, and eventually forgotten. My goal with this body of work is to illuminate parts of certain places of our world that are often covered in shadow and darkness. I shot the places I thought most people would have these assumptions of, like alleyways and tunnels. I wanted to expose just enough of the sites to give context, but also keep the shadows that make the rest of the place remain a mystery to the viewer. The shadows juxtaposed with the beam of light create a kind of dramatic reveal of the site. The stark lighting also functions to create a contrasting atmosphere of danger and darkness, but also light and understanding of what’s really there. The understanding that I want the viewer to come to is that these places when actually looked at, and not kept in the darkness can be more interesting than they might have originally thought.

test shots and locations:  

Ruff Final Jessica Carbine

Final project 2nd shoot

Final Progression--Aften Ritzman

For my final I know that I want it to have a western feel to it. I haven't decided exactly where I am going with it (if it will be more landscape or place) but I know that I want it to have a Western feel.

Jordyn Fail- Final Progression

Artist statement

We live in a fast-paced environment going from one place to the next hardly taking time to look up from our phones. Doors are opened and passed through but never really looked at—they are merely an obstacle in your path.

Taking the idea that doors are merely an obstacle I photographed doors that are indeed obstacles. Doors that requires a prerequisite to pass through it. Whether the obstacle is physical, mental, or emotional it’s still an obstacle. It gives us the opportunity to step back and think about how many times we take a door for granted just to get from point A to point B.

Magnolia Grove Reception Center

Jordan River Dental

LDS Church

Rough Draft Artist Statement: Yuki Miyazawa

Final Project Artist Statement

Look up. Look up from the screen and see the world around you. Life is more than a hashtag and the glamorous filtered photos of everyone’s exciting, adventurous, beautiful, and unique lives. There is more going on outside of social media’s frame of reference. All that can be seen are things at their best; whether it be people, places, activities, etc. When we see those things, we tend to compare it with our own seemingly dull, stagnant, ordinary lives. What we see on social media is everyone’s personal project creating a portfolio of their own landscapes of what we call Life.

With this series of images, it is hoped to bring to attention the beauty of the ordinary, the exciting in the dull, the liveliness in the stagnant and ordinary. By composing images with frames to symbolize what could potentially be a status update or post that one would see on social media; having the outside of the frame be the bigger picture, and the inside be what would be posted.

Final shoot number 2: Shaylee Smith

Rough Draft Artist Statement- Jessica Mason

Take a moment to look around you. You might see lights, buildings, furniture, food now think… where did these things come from? Behind every stitch of cloth, crumb of food, and light in your house is a hard working farmer. Everybody enjoys that piece of toast every morning but do they ever remember those who worked to get it there? You never think about them but without them your life wouldn’t be the same. Just like the roots they plant they are hidden underneath what they produce.

It’s not just a job or a career path, it’s a way of life that has been passed down from generation to generation. It takes a special breed of people to do the work of a farmer. It takes a tough yet gentle, hard yet soft, and big yet humble person to do the work that these farmers do. They are one of the few who still put their blood, sweat, and tears into what they love to do.

In reality we all come from this breed. We are all descendants of the “blue collar” crowd. Over the years this special breed has been thinned. More and more have pulled out of the business. In the twentieth century it was decided, by those of “higher status”, that there were too many farms and it was time that they were thinned out. These people thought they were just taking away farms but they were taking more than that. They were taking homes, lifestyles, and culture. I thought Wendell Berry put it perfectly when he said, “almost nobody in the supposedly “higher” occupational and social strata has ever recognized the estimable care, intelligence, knowledge, and artistry required to use the land without degrading or destroying it.” They haven’t seen what it takes to live a farmer’s dream.

Every farmer out there counts. They may make one tiny droplet into a giant tank but somebody has to fill that tank. They understand how doing small things can make a big difference in the long run. Every farmer is different. They have a different way of handling situations, a different way of watering crops, and a different point of view. Like their own personal uniqueness their farm is just as unique.

Through these photos I want the viewer to see the uniqueness and the sense of pride that each farmer has. Though they may be different they are also similar. I want to recognize these people who never ask for recognition. These are the people who work so hard for so little. Wendell berry also said, “Good farming is first and last an art, a way of doing and making that involves human histories, cultures, minds, hearts, and souls.” I want to show how farming is an art through my photos. It is so much more than just a job. Its home, lifestyle, art, livelihood, and we would be lost without it.

Final Shoot 1 - Keli Capel

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