Faggotries
*Como perros que podemos oler al otros.
Here come final projects, Ladies 'n' Gents. I've found myself aware of a problem that I've apparently been dealing with for some time now - that being the transition from concept to image. I never really took myself to be overly conceptual, and maybe I still am not, though it feels like it just now.
I'd recently found myself overwhelmed with the direction I'm taking in one of my projects this semester. I've started work on an arguably 'new' series dealing with latino/gay culture, gender and self-identity. I was originally going down a route that was looking at the roles of those concepts in the lives of other people as a way of getting insight into their roles in mine but it ended up getting overly complicated and was starting to feel kinda contrivedblahblahblahartfagbs. I went to Brian (Ulrich) about this project as he's the one who's going to be critiquing this series and that was waste of time. I ended up waiting 20 minutes after class to talk to him LAST and by the time we sat down I'd sort of figured everything out. I need to shoot to see how these ideas will take form, though, I've made another decision since that meeting about a week ago and I've decided to turn the camera on myself.
I'm really excited to do self-portrait work for the first time. I'm hoping that I won't have to rely on other a tripod for everything, though I've shot a few images that I've yet to develop. What I would really like to do is have other people take pictures of me with my camera. I've been really into the idea of letting go of the camera and turning over that aspect of photo to other people, almost like a sort of collaboration. But it's more about creating images of myself from other people's perspectives - I like the idea of seeing myself through other people and that whole dynamic. Something I've been thinking a lot about: my relationships with other people and perspective. Living with and, sort of, through other people.
Anyway, I'm excited to get shooting and see what comes of it. Hope to post some more scans at the end of this week.
P.S. Photos shot on Fuji Provia 100 slide film which DID NOT work well with my flash.
*'Like dogs we can smell each other.' kind of, my Spanish is rough but it's the working title for the next series.