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Explain what type of space this image represents (landscape, cityscape etc.)?
Photograph #1- Interior Photograph #2- Water Landscape Photograph #3- Interior

4. Explain What mood is evoked by the artist? Photograph #1- Disaster. This photo tells a story. It makes me want to be in the picture, walk around, and explore the scenery. Who knows what I could find! Photograph #2- I get a very eerie impression from this photograph, as if there is an unforeseen danger approaching and I can’t seem to find what it is. Photograph #3- The mood that I feel from this photo is a mix between anger and chaos. I feel like the situation that caused the bed to be portrayed in this way was either created by acting out, or someone being torn away from their environment.

Explain Who the artist is, like what kind of work do they do? how does this image show that type of work?
Photograph #1 and #3- Tom Kirsch photographs urban exploration and various abandoned places. You can see through his works that an emotion is portrayed. Whether that emotion be angst, surprise, anger, nostalgia, or chaos. Photograph #2- Mrs. Bjork’s work is, as far as I’ve seen, very involved. The way that she takes the photos speaks through the final work. While explaining her pieces such as the one shows she seems very passionate and serious herself about what the photo represents. You can tell that a lot of thought was put into the work, and the black and white filter adds to the overall feeling of the piece.

Explain what type of compositional technique (leading lines, rule of thirds, framing, fill the frame, level horizon, focal point and point of view) the artist used to create their portraits.
Photograph #1- There is a very strong use of leading lines in this first photograph. With the lines from the outline of the room that are leading to the door you are highly attracted to the focal point while being dragged back out with all of the other detail. Photograph #2- The rule of thirds is used in the second photo by Mrs. Bjork. The way that the boat and the people on the end line up. The photo is split almost symmetrical with these characteristics. Photograph #3- The compositional techniques that are used in the this photograph include fill the frame. There are not many compositional techniques that are being used in this photo as the feling of this piece is chaos. I feel that in other situations this would not have been a good thing to do, but in this case it helps to pull the piece together and add to the feeling that is expressed with the black and white.

media type="youtube" key="S_X60nxRqyE" width="560" height="315" The technique of printing on glass will help me to portray the fragility. This connects to my concept and background story because the place where I took the photo is at my grandmas old apartment. During my grandmother’s marriage she had been exposed to many horrible things. Her husband had had drinking problems, and he had taken his anger out on her. My mother was exposed to these moments and it is a very traumatic memory of hers. The glass represents how fragile my grandmother was during these moments. The colors and composition choices will be made very carefully in order to portray emotion throughout the piece. I decided to use an object in the portrait as the subject and that item was a teddy bear that my grandma had given me before she passed away. This is the only memory I have of her, and it is a very sentimental piece of my life. The mood of this photograph is loss. I want to utilize natural lighting and create a very real, story telling piece that makes the reader question more about what is going on behind the photo. The place that I photographed is a city/landscape, and the image will be printed onto a medium sized sheet of glass.