“Hit the lights and bang your drum, And let your flag unfold
Cause history will prove itself, In the hall of justice and lost souls”
Like Soldiers from a long lost war… - Green Day
Product Photography - Studio Lighting
We Are Robots.
Ryerson University Photography - Visual Studies Time Lapse.
It’s not the greatest but it’s my first one ever. so go easy…
Generation X - Self Portrait. (Final Self Portrait 23.5 x 26 Critique)
A self-portrait is one I had to think: of who I am and how to portray myself. I thought long and hard and it was evident of what I had to do. I love to photograph men, not only men but nude men. I had to make a conscious decision of what to do. I had to photograph myself nude. It was a tough decision, but a decisive one. How can I be a photographer that photographs nudes and not do one myself? Therefore I decided to bare it all and be upfront about who I am. That was the strategy. I could have gone and photographed myself in many other positions. This was to be me how the world would view me, front and center bearing it all. I decided I did not want the classical or cliché normal smooth and clean backdrop. It had to be dirty and wrinkly. The pose is to mimic a buda, and the dirty feet is to what I am, or who I am becoming; a dirty man. Looking forward for enlightenment, and to make the almighty perfect image. Baring all my insecurities and imperfections. To photograph bear and chubby men that have their own demons I had to confront my own demons, and the fear of everyone seeing me naked, in all my imperfections. This is who I am.
The Apocalypse. Print 23.5 x 18
The view of old and new. A view of the making of a new subway line along a busy Union Station in Downtown Toronto. Here you see not only the destruction of the main artery on Front St. also the erection of a new structure in the background. Flanked on the right side by Union Station and the Fairmont Royal York Hotel and Royal Bank Tower on the left. The view is of a harmony but also an eeriness of no human presence. We stand in the present and witness the future being created however how many of us will be around to see the next evolution of or city’s future. A documentary photograph of our changing landcapes. Building on the past looking towards the future.
Opposing Landscape Structures. B&W Ryerson
These two Opposing Images are of the ever-changing landscapes. The Old World vs. the ever-changing new structures that we are being objectified by.
a. A new Structure being erected at Collage & University Ave. long slender lines. Clean, Sterile, Reflective surfaces. Horizontal lines meet vertical. A small busy intersection with allot of interaction. Simple selection of nature blends in. A view to the new bold future Modernized industrialism in a speedy metropolitan intersection.
b. The Old world Landscapes. Brick porous materials, horizontal and vertical lines are softened by detail; Comprised of rounded hard edges, situated across the street nestled in an alleyway. Dirty and left to be forgotten. No sign of human presence. A view to industrial revolution in its heydays forgotten.
These two images represent were we have come from to a new world. Materials and locations are almost identical. Yet one is demanding of attention vs. the later being hidden in its beauty, where we once were. Trying to forget what our forefathers have built.