NEW LENSES: Experimental Capture and Release

Start in class 3/2 and finish over the weekend. We will look at these together Monday.

Using the lecture Collecting a Portrait over Time and the list of ideas you brainstormed in class as inspiration, please come up with a concept or system for creating an experimental series of portraits or self portraits that reveal something hidden or unexpected about your subject. The goal of this project is to consider how you might create a system of rules for capturing, manipulating, or making images that represent something hidden about the people you choose to represent.

Consider these approaches:
– Portraits as a means of comparison
Using comparative portraiture to describe what has happened between shots. These works frequently focus on visualizing the impact something external had on the subject. By looking at the “before and after” the unseen space in between can be alluded to.

–Portraits as a Collection
Designing a system or set of rules for capturing a series of portraits.

–Indirect portrait using physical objects
Using physical objects as a way of revealing something about a subject.

–Indirect portrait using data
Using digital data as a way of revealing something about a subject.

-Incorporating hand drawn elements, using the tools we have talked about in class, doing research to find new tools for capture, using scanners, printers, cameras, charcoal rubbings, video interviews, 3D scans, and any other interests you might have.

Please make a blog post with your finished work and we will look at these together on MONDAY the 7th.