Fine Art

My Look at East Tennessee 

This collection of 21 digital landscape photographs is designed to showcase the beauty of East Tennessee. As I grow older and consider moving away, these are views that I want to take with me. The collection is divided into three sections meant to show three types of landscapes that embody the region. I hope that through these pictures someone can see East Tennessee how I see East Tennessee. For someone used to a different landscape, it could be possible to see this as home.  

The three sections of the collection are farmland, highway, and industrial. I think they each show the local landscape in unique ways. 

City Tones 

The title City Tones has a dual meaning about changing the tones of these cityscape photographs. The collection is edited in different ways so that the tones as in the colors change. The purpose of changing the colors is to create a different mood or feeling giving the picture a different tone. My hope is that when someone is looking at these pictures they notice that they have a different reaction to the different versions of the pictures. I researched common color schemes used in different cities and countries in photography and film to prepare for this collection. Themes like Neo-orientalism and classism influenced some of the color decisions. The overall purpose of this collection is to examine how our perception of an image changes with different editing and colors. 

Moment

The inspiration for this collection was a picture I took of a friend dancing. The picture was taken with a long shutter speed and multiple flashes. When the light flashes, her pose is frozen, creating a picture that has a blur from the dancing combined with overlapping images of her in the dance. I wanted to expand on this picture with a series using this process. I think this collection acts as a summary of my current state as a photographer. I am primarily a portrait photographer, and I have recently enjoyed utilizing a long shutter speed. This group of pictures combines these two themes in my recent work. As I am currently in my last semester I wanted a way to conceptualize what my art looks like in one collection. The pictures could be divided into two parts because there are both digital and film photographs. The film was scanned digitally. I am happy to start a new phase of my life after college including a new chapter in my art. I am glad to have a collection that concludes my collage work. 

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