Documentary Photography.

so my camera is broken
the lovely people at wings photo have the flu and closed shop
so i had to make magic another way



for my documentary photography i wanted to focus on anexoria
a eating disorders effecting teen girls and boys, as someone who has witnessed it first hand...it is a scary thing


for my photographs i wanted to go a more symbolic than direct route featuring the girls spine so vividly and then having her posed with a skull of a animal


these photographs, especially the ones with the skull express the decaying process the body goes through of someone who suffers through the disease of anexoria, their skeletal figures just like the skull of the dead animal is proof that their disease is winning and consuming them entirely.

Never That.

self portraits


as our semester draws to an end i have to take a look and enjoy this too cute self portrait of myself


ok maybe i am being abit arrogant.


i really enjoy the composition even though i wish the words would have came out abit better but hey what can ya do? i think i tried to convey my insecurities and in someways i succeeded and in some i failed.

Puppy Love.

shutter speed 101


so i decided to shoot my self potraits and shutter speed photographs
i am sitting at the computer listening to pre-teen


"my life isn't perfect, oh by the way did you see the new car my daddy bought me"
drama trying to figure out what to write about the photograph


i don't like it


photo has been hard work for me because i find myself trying to challenge
work i have done previously with digital, i want to be different and after falling in love with artist such as sally mann and heidi slimane i want to totally change how i go about photographing people


its hard


the composition is good but thats as far as it goes, i dont really enjoy any one particular photograph because to me i couldve done better so here is the contact sheet to view



enjoy!

forever the hungry artist.

so for this new assignment we have to do portraits


which i love
which i adore
which never come out the way i see them in my head


yesterday in class we were going through my portfolio
and chappell commented that it was "so...fashion"


no
no
NO!


i love what i shoot, yes
but some of my favorite photographers are NOT fashion
maybe that's a good thing....


anyway for a new assignment i will be shooting in the inspiration of heidi slimane
very black and white bold photographs that are simple but say alot
also i have recently discovered the work of max vadukul who does shoot fashion
but i admire his work alot


above is a photograph i shot for our lighting assignment
i like this because i think i am finally breaking the wall between digital and traditional
i have realised that with traditional its not about bright colors, but the simplicity for me
is what makes it all the more powerful


i had to learn that black and white photography is powerful enough by itself
and that i don't need to garnish it in bright makeup and sparkles.

Composition 101

self critique
finally i am getting around to uploading my work


so this was my first time shooting with my canon 35mm
and i think it shows


i took the safe route and went back to my fashion photog roots
but i think this is such a boring photo


the composition is good YES
but it lacks a story
it lacks interest
it lacks me...



urrgh.

Framin' it.

so today i found a new photographer
whose images pretty much inspired me all over again on this new assignment

mr.traver rains


a former club kid of new york city
he and fellow friend richie rich started up the clothing company heatherette in the late 90s, the clothing which embodies the fun party scene those two use to live has been seen on numerous celebrities and even has had two limited edition makeup lines with MAC


in late 2008 however heatherette went on a hiatus so traver could focus on his love of photography


something...he is very good at.



his photos above (apart of his montana series) show rains ability
to mix simplistic country settings with the high-end colorful fashion he is known for
the first photograph has the principle of depth of field at its PERFECTION


now as someone who isn't a large fan of centered composition i am not thrown off by its use in this photo for the simple fact that the fence around it doesn't draw your eyes directly to the model.


the next photo...


no words.


the composition, the contrast between model and the setting, the framing of just the eyes with the AMAZING makeup


i think i just had a heart attack...


the framing in these photographs aren't the most unique yet they offer breath taking photographs and Rains has mastered the art of taking plain landscape and making it somewhere you want to be.

for my photographs i would like to use that technique of using a simple setting maybe a lake or old house and finding things around for my use of framing and not so much creating it myself.

bec parsons.

fashion photographer
i am researching his work and thinking about applying it to my own
for our portrait assignment
simplistic setting: a white backround, but i want my models to be young dark skin toned
black boys


its daring...
its edgy...
its been done before...


but i will do it better.

Full of Sin.

so our next assignment is self portraits
we are suppose to talk about ourselves, but not in that teen angst
"i listen to the dresden dolls and paint my nails black" kind of way


we are suppose to dig deeper...


so here we go
my name is ayanna bryant
and i am terrified of failure,


the first step to recovery is admitting there is a problem...


i bite my nails
i cry alot because i don't know what to do with my emotions
i am overly sensitive and it gets the best of me
it takes me forever to get over things, im spiteful and it sucks
i am not perfect, but i constantly like to put on this facade that i am
i am the "funny one" but in reality i am just talking about my life...


you just find it amusing.


i am all about equality, being apart of both GLSEN and Trevor Project
yet i judge people, my friends so harshly
i am a walking contradiction


i don't think im all bad though
if anything, i am overly confident in certain areas
i always think that my way is the right way
i always think that my photographs are the best, and its hard for me to take critics
i am funny
i am witty
i have my own personal style, and i try not to let people influence that


i do care about what people think of me


people in my school have this idea of me, alot of them think im a lesbian
i wonder if its because i don't put myself out there like other girls
im not a tease
i don't flirt with people just to flirt,
i am socially awkward and to be honest,i prefer my own company over others


i try to be open and honest with myself
but when i do it just sounds like i am really insecure and bagging on myself
to be honest with everyone, i love myself
to be honest with you, i only trust myself


sorry i had to make a poem there


see i am always making everything a joke
i hate being serious
maybe thats my problem

photography by: jason lee perry

Party Photographers

Gerard Estadella and Mark "the Cobra Snake" Hunter

are the new breed of photographers.
they are at all the exclusive events, cameras ready to capture the night
The Question is...


is this real photography, or just another snap shot?

i am a huge fan of party photography,

mostly because well...i love the party.

i can sit for hours on both of these photographers websites

gaze at the amazing people, their clothing, their hair

and feel as if i am right there with them

but i also feel like this is something ANYONE can do

photography in many ways is about preparation, creative thinking, and patients

these new wave photographers however throw everything i was taught out the window

i don't like it.

the photographs are eye-catching and appealing YES

but i don't see them as something that is pushing the field of photography further

is anything... it is taking a few steps back.

Hedi Slimane.

Originally a Fashion Designer.
Slimane is making a name for himself as a Photographer

and Film Maker with his new box set American Youth.

I selected Slimane to imitate for my portraits sketchbook ideas.

his simplistic, black and white photographs of mostly males are to me really powerful.

i want to be just like him when i grow up

for my own personal photographs i will be using a white background

and photographing black males in the portraits.

the contrast between the two will be in my MIND

amazing, yet simplistic at the same time.