Calderon_Place

Portrait of a Place~ Sarah Calderon Photo 1: Robby Shone Photo 2: Sally Mann Photo 3: Kevin Faingnaert

Photo 1 is a great example of a Portrait of a Place by Robby Shone, a National Geographic Photographer. His photograph of an interior space shows a cave explorer in awe of the curves ice formations on the walls of a cave. This image does a good job of balancing the light and dark of the cave, lighting the ice less and less though the foreground. The photographer also does a good job using the rule of thirds and framing, wth the explorer standing on the rightmost 1/3 line and the mouth the cave and its walls enclosing the space around him. The second photo is an eerie photo of a foggy forest by Sally Mann. His work consists of black and white photos that have a very eerie feeling to them. In this image, Mann uses the fog to almost frame tree and the roots poking out. The final photo is of a house in a desolate place by Kevin Faingnaert; this landscape is meant to evoke a feeling of cold and loneliness. Also a National Geographic Photographer, he uses the leading lines in his landscape in the background mountains to enclose the house, creating the feeling of isolation. I really like the crispness of this photo and the duller, more distressed looking colors.

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The concept for my project is to print a tranquil camping photo on a piece of cotton. I have a really ugly decorative pillow that I'd want to cut the front off of and restitch this transfer on. My idea behind this is that I would love to have something to take with me to college that reminds of home. Instead of a portrait of an inside home, I wanted to go back to a temporary home made while camping. My family goes camping every summer and has also brought back good memories. This photo, in particular, is very calming and would work well for this idea of a home away from home. Because the pillow is 17.5 inx17.5 in, I won't be able to fill the whole side of the pillow. If it's possible, I will print the photo as a 13x13 transparency (or smaller if I have too) and then add stitched or needle-felted designs along the pillows borders. I think I'll try both the transparency method as well as printed directly on cotton and compare the two since the transparency method tends to make the fabric stiff.