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REPORT FOUR

For this report, the photographer I saw this time worked as a fine arts photographer and had a former career at NASA. He took photos of space and captured them in a geometric abstraction to create a space visualization. “The use of repetitious and melodic mark-making within the photographs gives reference to systems of order and disorder while also envisioning physical properties of matter and the abstract concept of infinity.” (Alterwitz)  The images themselves look as if they were drawings, and it was a cool concept that the pictures were shots of the sky, and it was just black-and-white with stars, the average sky photo. His project was called Harmony Of The Spheres. He created them using raw materials, photographs of one night's performance, and then pieces from a series of completed photographs. He has mentioned that many Greek philosophers had “believed that celestial objects such as the sun, moon, visible planets, and stars moved above and around the Earth in a series of rotating celestial spheres” This was one of the reasons for his photos since Nickleson had a former career as a NASA engineer, shifted to the creative side, and wanted to go deeper into science and art. 

Overall, I enjoyed the concept of space and the endless amount of the universe turning space into art. One of the photographs that caught my attention was prelude-4 and prelude-8. Prelude 4 was a dark image with multiple black lines forming into a circle in the center. It was interesting because, like I said before, it looked like a drawing and was highly emotional. I am unsure if that makes sense, but I will have the photos up. With prelude-8, it seems more like a drawing that has been scribbled everywhere, and I thought of it the same way. This one was white, and you can see it more clearly. 

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REPORT THREE

While going through Lensscape, I found a few photographers who took really interesting photos. The photographer was Kirsten Hoving. She had a project called Night Wanderers, a set of photographs of the universe revealed in ice. In her 2012 Lenscratch posting, she applies a cool process to old pictures and natural materials to reveal the universe's secrets, and the photographs' various objects and 19th-century photographs are frozen or inserted into icy disks. This makes the images resemble spinning galaxies, stars, and nebulae. She was transforming everyday objects into space. However, as you imagine, using ice as a still life object was hard. She had to thaw the ice to get a transparent and translucent area, working swiftly to capture the desired imagery before the ice changed further. and to create this project, she selects objects and photographs from earlier times, such as outdated globes or old carte-de-visite photographs. Like I said before, this was a really cool concept, taking older photos and making them look like space!

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Meet my family (from left to right) Angel, Jesse, Justin, and finally my mom, Nina. These photos were my favorite to take, and I'm proud of how they came out. As of right now, I am trying to export all my pictures into my drive since I will be returning the camera to the library, but it was a fun experience to take photos with an actual DSLR Camera and not my phone.

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I don't know what it is. Taking close-up photos like this is too much fun. Anyway, meet Hirono (Bottom) and Pucky (Top). I got them last week. (Updated B&W)

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FINALE PROJECT

The following slideshow will include pictures of my family, with captions explaining who they are and what they mean to me. I took these photos in color on a Canon T6i. I later put them through Lightroom and edited them to be black and white because I wanted to show my family's photos in a sort of documentary/gloomy way. I loved seeing many black-and-white photographers and wanted to show emotion while making it. They are also in order from oldest to youngest.

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This one is just a random photo of my older brother (Jesse), it came out much blurrier than I wanted, but I still tried editing it to make it look somewhat decent. Not sure if I'm adding this one to the Finale presentation.

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One Theme Project Photo

This is one of the photos I plan to use for my theme project. When we went to Anaheim, my mom asked for a Sonny Angel figure, so I bought her 2 boxes. I had never seen anything like that before, so it was surprising to know she wanted one.

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Report 2

The photographer I wanted to write about is Motaz Azaiza. He is a photojournalist from Gaza who has documented the war between Israel and Hamas and tried to shed some light on the situation. He had not intended to pursue war and terrorism in his career; instead, he took photos of the streets of the city he grew up in, documenting the native life in the Gaza Strip. Many news outlets have interviewed him and shared his story worldwide. Motaz had things to say, such as  “I never expected the world would know my name [because of] a genocide of my people,” and “Israel is targeting our children. Israel is targeting our babies, targeting our mothers, targeting our families. I want to show the whole world, so maybe I can help my people through photography.” He advocates for his people in many ways, fighting all he can, which I find very inspirational. One of his photos that caught my attention was from LataM Arte Gallery, which is of a little girl taking a balloon from a man. They were brightly colored, and in the background was destruction from a bombed building with a bright blue sky. I am not sure when this photo was taken exactly, but it was roughly between 2023 and 2024 when the war had started.  This photo, along with many other pictures from him, is an essential tool and image for seeing what is happening worldwide. I have been following his story for a long while now, and the impact it made on me was huge. I actually believed I learned a lot from his photos and how he captures people's emotions, which makes me sad to see.

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It'll be interesting to make a photo book like this one. Maybe one day when I'm not loaning out a camera from my schools Library.

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Report ONE Love the Left Bank Ed Van Der Elesken

The book I looked through in class was Love the Left Bank by Ed Van Der Elesken. Initially published in 1956 in  Paris, Amsterdam, by Ed van der. ​"Love on the Left Bank" is a seminal photobook. The book offers a vivid portrayal of bohemian life in Paris's Left Bank during the 1950s, focusing on the area's artists, writers, and other creative individuals who shaped the cultural landscape of that is around a fictional love story between Manuel, a young Mexican man, and Ann, a bohemian woman inspired by real-life artist and dancer Vali Myers. The captions in the book are entirely fictional but were used to tell a story. The book is set in Saint-Germain-des-Prés and the occasionally challenging lives of individuals who live on the Left Bank. Van der Elsken’s combination of actual photographs and invented narratives shows what documentary photography can do. The book has the feel of a film with flashbacks and varying sizes of photographs contributing to the narrative. The cover of Love on the Left Bank shows a young woman sitting. Her messy hair and dark makeup around her eyes give her a dramatic look. She gazes off to the side, looking deep in thought or maybe sad. The photo is black and white (which is all the photos in the book), grainy, and feels raw, like a moment caught in real life. It gives a sense of Paris's wild, artistic, and rebellious world in the 1950s. My take on this photobook is that it was very interesting. Most of the photos looked really valuable and had some kind of sad emotion, but at times, they seemed happy and comfortable. Some pictures were shown on a vast scale, filling the page, while others were put into a college format. I feel that if these photos were in color, the message would have completely changed, and it would have been a whole new experience with the photos. Black and white photography has been around for a long time, especially with street photography, yet it is still interesting to look at.

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This has to be one of my favorite pictures! It could be clearer, but that's okay. It's the first time for everything.

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Project Proposal March 19, 2025

For this project, I plan to document the daily lives of all my family members (my mom and three brothers) while they are working,  doing routines, and their moments. Initially, my idea was to photograph my mom working in the fields, focusing on her hardships. However, I have adjusted my approach since she recently stopped working in the field. Instead of focusing solely on her, I decided to do the project on my entire family, following behind everyone, and I will try to get some photos of them at work, at home, or during special events. This shift allows me to create a visual narrative of my family’s experience, and it also allows me to have more photos of them together, which is something I do not have. When thinking of the project, I want it to provide an authentic look into their lives and photographs of my family because their lives and experiences have shaped me as a person. Their hard work and sacrifices have influenced what I wanted to do, so I want to take photos of them. This project is personal because it is my family, and I want to show the viewers what it is like and how it feels to be part of my own family. As to how I will do it, I want to take a documentary-style approach and get candid moments rather than staged or posed shots, making it feel more natural. I was thinking of using natural lighting as much as possible and utilizing a mix of close-up shots for intimate detail and wide shots for storytelling. I do not enjoy editing, so I also wanted to keep my picture more natural, but if a photo needs extreme changes, I will try my best to fix it. I will also try to include video shots of some of our conversations just to make it more fun. So, overall, I want my viewers to stop and think about what they think about their families. I know some families aren't as close as others are, and each family is different. If my work can make people reflect on their own families and appreciate their loved ones more deeply, then I would think I did a good job at the end of it. 

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Scavenger Hunt Project (Re-upload)

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I was playing around with my camera and I wanted to try to use Lightroom. It was my first time using the app so I actually had no idea what I was doing

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Assignment One Photography 30: Weekend Photos Saturday

When we were in the supermarket it was raining pretty hard but when we walked out we saw a double rainbow which was pretty cool. I also got hair dye because I felt like Changing it up this semester. I normally keep it orange but I was board. We did nothing on Sunday so there’s no photos for Sunday.

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Assignment One Photography 30: Weekend Photos Saturday

Throughout the day I started it out with breakfast. (We had pancakes) Then I took my dog out for the restroom because we were going to be out for the day. He usually wears sweaters so I’m sorry he’s naked for this photo. After I asked my brother if we can go downtown to Claymix because I needed to buy some things for my ceramics class and I got a huge bag and a bucket of supplies. I was also hungry so we went to the Asian supermarket for snacks and I needed to restock on some of my favorite Buldak noodles. While my mom and older brother were Looking for laundry baskets. Omar (my younger brother) and I were messing around with the cart in the frozen aisle.

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Assignment One Photography 30: Weekend Pictures Post 1

Over the weekend I went back home. I stay at the dorms so I’m not home all the time and I usually take two busses to get back. When I got back I saw Oddy struggling to get off the couch and I thought it was a little goofy. (He was fine after but we really need to give him a nail trim!!!)