Sam Abell

Here is a photographer that I'm not crazy about but has a few really nice photos.   I go through my notebooks every couple of months and weed out artists that I don't like or rather whose work I don't feel connected to and whenever I come across his name I am always tempted to cross it out but then I see these few images and realize why I keep him around.

This image in particular is a specific one I would miss if I crossed out his name.

Final Day

So we just finished up class and we had some alumni speakers speak, which some where very helpful like Tiffany and Ariel, but I wasn't so impressed with the others (sorry!) although I highly appreciated them all speaking!!!  Loads of thanks!  I am going to upload some of my photos that I have worked on for my final for Photo since, like I said in my proposal, I am going to branch off of this project for my thesis.  Hopefully I won't have to re-upload them like I had to do with the Vivian Maier photos I posted.

These are just some, and I also have a bunch on my phone but I want to find out if there is an easier way of transferring them from my phone to my computer rather then sending them one by one by one to my email.  These are from two different shoots (obviously); he falls asleep very very easily, but I like taking photos of him like this because it is a very vulnerable moment/position, for anyone, and it's at the same time it is a very intimate moment for a significant other to appreciate and experience. 

Final Crit

Just got back from my final crit and I think it went really great.  I super super Super SUPER appreciate the Bruce High Quality guy being there!  It's funny because on my way to school this morning I was thinking how it was kind of unfair that Crit Group A got a guest to come and look at there stuff but Group B didn't and then BAM!  It was cool :)  I am excited about my project idea, however at the same time I feel like my point of it being a portrait won't come across, instead it will just come across "non-arty", so that is a concern.  I don't know how concerned I should feel about that though only because it's my work, I'm making it for me and not for anyone else.  The aspect of privacy in it is a huge challenge to myself, since I am a very private person, but I don't want to sit in a box, I want to push my work to possible uncomfortable areas, I shouldn't feel like I need to ignore certain characteristics of myself and my life in this project in order to paint a more controlled image.  The point of this project is to not control anything, especially the image.  I picked my relationship as the subject matter for this project because I can't control its image, I can't always make it look good and not allowing my boyfriend to know that he is part of this project gives it that natural habitat that I'm looking for.