photo assignment 3, thoughts

I chose (like a lot of others I'm sure) to photograph my room. A bedroom is an interesting place to photograph because it indirectly reveals a lot about the person living in it. When carefully observed, one can see a person's interests, personality, behavior, and character in the visual elements of a room.

If it's possible, i would like to approach my room as if I were a complete stranger. As a stranger with a camera, I would try to isolate things in the room that I believe reveal something about the character of the individual who inhabits its space. This being said, I will not arrange or reposition anything in my room, instead I will leave everything as it is, or as I have left it.

It is obvious that things like books, clothing style, and music choice reveal a lot about a person, but I also believe that there are traces of a person in much more subtle things, such as the rumple of a bed sheet, or the creases of a book. I hope to capture some of these more subtle, slightly ambiguous moments. I want to try to focus less on the subject of the photograph as to the nature of the subjects, and how they are existing.

I also interested in how fragmentation and cropping can create interest and mystery. When one is not able to see an object in it's entirety, the mind tries to complete what the eye cannot see. Sometimes a fragmented object is not easily identifiable, and the image becomes much more ambiguous and open to interpretation. At other times fragmentation creates an abstraction in which the viewer might concentrate less on what an object is and more on how the images looks. I think that when this is done successfully it provides a lot of interest and attraction.

I also notice that a lot of the objects in my room are ordinary and mundane in nature. It would be interesting if to try and make the mundane interesting through fragmentation and abstraction.