Aaron Huey, TED Talks

Stumbled over this video while researching Drex Brooks. Thought the class might find this as touching and interesting as I did. The artists name is Aaron Huey.
http://www.ted.com/talks/aaron_huey.html

Tori Sanders

For this assignment I wanted to portray how society see beauty and how playing a roll in being beautiful can take from a person. Half of the work is very glamor like photographs with fancy clothes, shoes, make-up and jewelry. The other half is in a black shirt and shorts with no make up and no glamor at all. These two differences are to show life outside and life inside ones-self. Also to show how people can hide behind looking all done up to how they may feel inside. All the lighting in the Photographs are all natural sun or window lighting. "Today you are you, that is truer the true, there is no one alive who is you-er the you! - Dr Seuss

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Garrett Ferguson

My creative project kind of evolved into this, creating a masculine project focused on strong leading lines in interesting environments. I tried to bring out the character of my two subjects because they are similarly photographed in composition but inherently different people. I brought elements of the background in to try and speak to the individuals personality. The cityscape and wave background accomplished that in my opinion. I wanted to make this project speak to the rough and ready, the mid twenties in Albuquerque and how some express that through their skin or expression. I think this is a representation of individuality in the modern era.

Emmanuelle Katz

For my portraits I focused on the idea of wonder. Not necessarily wonder in a fairy tale sort of way but more in the literal sense. Photography has the power to portray the ideas of the photographer very clearly but it can also have a way of making the viewer wonder what the subject is thinking. I chose the settings for my photos but I told the models to do whatever they wanted. Some of the time they did things that I wouldn't have expected and other times there was an innocent sort of awkwardness that came from not knowing what I wanted. I chose to put all my photos in black and white because I think more emotion comes across when all you have to focus on is the subject.

"When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their souls."

~Ted Grant

Victoria Miera

I have always been intrigued by Greek Mythology and the dark nature that nearly all of them share. For this assignment I chose to play with that theme of darkness and show the contrast between the nature of light and dark. 

Tessa Flores

            For my portrait assignment I wanted to try to capture the reactions of people after they were scared or startled. To do this I set up a black backdrop and had someone wearing a evil clown halloween mask hiding behind it. We worked out a signal so he would know when to jump out and scare them. Most of the people though weren't too scared; a lot of them just laughed. I then darkened the background so the only thing showing in the picture would be their face because their expressions were the focus of this project.

Steven Russell

This work is an attempt to capture the emotions surrounding abortions.  I wanted to show in a very non-in your face way how I feel about the topic of abortion.  I wanted to not show the wrongs or the pains but rather the choice.  This work was not an attempt or place of judgement but a place for prevention and even healing.  I tried to have my beliefs in Christ come through in my work.  This is a sensitive topic and I tried to do it in a very sensitive way.  Enjoy! 

Heather Kelly

In my series I used self-portraits in order to focus on body image and to capture feelings of awkwardness and low self-esteem. I utilized a minimalistic wardrobe and monochromatic palette to keep my photographs simplistic, paired with plain backgrounds and in some cases a shallow depth of field to emphasize the subject of each image. I chose not to include faces in any of my portraits, depersonalizing the subject while also keeping them almost uncomfortably intimate.