TITLE: Digital Intervention: Against Representation
MEDIA: Projector photography
SOFTWARE: Adobe Photoshop
HARDWARE: Vankyo Mini Projector, iPhone 6s, Laser Scanner
SPECIFICATIONS: 5.89″ x 5.07″, 1200 x 685
CLASS: ART 328 Experimental Photography I – Advanced
PROFESSOR: Rob Dallas
TERM: Fall 2020
INSTITUTION: University of Tampa
DESCRIPTION: The purpose of this project was to take digital photography and add an experimental element to it. The first two photos were created by taking a projector and projecting a picture of a flower over a real vase. I wanted to play with perception with these two and make one very obviously a projected flower and the other one so that you couldn’t tell that it was a projection. The third picture was fairly simple as I sat in front of the projected image of a swirl. I then took that image and brightened up the colors in photoshop. The last two picture are actually not pictures but scans. I ran a laser scanner and then followed the scanner with a flower. The result was a flower that looked like it was falling or its petals were falling. 

TITLE: Lumen Project
MEDIA: Lumen prints
SOFTWARE: N/A
SPECIFICATIONS: 31.8″ x 39.9″, 22.9″ x 27.3″
CLASS: ART 328 Experimental Photography I – Advanced
PROFESSOR: Rob Dallas
TERM: Fall 2020
INSTITUTION: University of Tampa
DESCRIPTION: These are lumen prints that I created from photos that I had taken in the past. A lumen print is an image created on photographic paper that, when exposed by the sun, will produce the image of what is laid on top of it. I made these lumens by printing an inverted, black and white version of these photos on transparent paper, laying them on top of the lumen paper and exposing it to the sun. Each of these images took about 10 minutes to develop in the sun, since it was pretty bright out on the day that I exposed them. The first lumen was developed on a different type of lumen paper than the other two, hence the orange color. 

TITLE: Modes of Working
MEDIA: Cyanotype prints
SOFTWARE: N/A
SPECIFICATIONS: 8.5″ x 11.7″
CLASS: ART 328 Experimental Photography I – Advanced
PROFESSOR: Rob Dallas
TERM: Fall 2020
INSTITUTION: University of Tampa
DESCRIPTION: Cyanotype, like lumen prints, are created by exposing chemical laced paper to the sun or UV rays to expose an image. This project is a collection of cyanotype prints with the common theme of the passage of time. The first three are based on a poem that I had written about the passing of time, with lines from the poem being juxtaposed with common symbols of time (an hourglass, a clock, and a pocket watch). The second set of three images actually show progression of time. The first image is the BLM symbol over images from marches aimed at ending segregation, showing how even though segregation has ended, many black people are still fighting for equality. The second image is a recent picture of me over pictures of me as a child, showing age progression. The last image is a picture of Kamala Harris, the Vice President of the United States over images of women marching for the right to vote, showing how women went from trying to gain the right to vote to the US electing its first female Vice President.