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Design Productions<\/h3>\n

Street Photography<\/h4>\n

Preceding the Citizen Project, we were introduced to street photography in Design in order to get acclimated with the challenging task of taking photos of strangers on the street without being noticed. In order to attempt this, I used a micro lens so that I would be able to get clear shots from a distance of 20-30 ft., and tried to be incognito, which was not entirely successful. While I managed to get a few photos that I’m proud of, many people noticed when they heard the camera click and became annoyed or angry. This is why I don’t enjoy street photography very much, but it was a useful exercise in getting out of my comfort zone and exercising confidence in the face of intimidation.<\/p>\n

The photo I selected for my Street Photography project was of a man sitting in a cafe reading, and I titled it with the feeling I interpreted from his appearance: “Focused”. I edited the colors, lighting, etc. in Photoshop, and cropped the original photo to purposefully go against the rule of thirds, centering the subject to keep in line with the feeling of focus.<\/p>\n

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Citizen Diptych<\/h4>\n

\"Diptych<\/p>\n

In our English class, we produced a ‘Listener Lyric Essay’ in which we chose an subject who had a controversial identity to interview and write a lyrical essay about. For my essay I chose a woman who elected to die by assisted suicide on Halloween of 2017.<\/p>\n

The passage I chose from my Listener Lyric essay for this project was, \u201cLife is a right for you, death is a perceived punishment for those living after you\u201d. This passage is about the laws surrounding assisted suicide, and how outlawing it is often just prolonging suffering rather than upholding rights to life. <\/span><\/p>\n

I chose this image to represent my written piece because it shows age and transcendence. The woman in color is an elderly woman, similar to the anonymous woman who I structured my essay around. While it is unintuitive from a photography perspective to have the subject seemingly walking out of the photo, I think that it is fitting given the subject matter because the woman who I interviewed has walked into an unknown state of being, death, which is unseen by anyone, similar to how the viewer of this photo doesn\u2019t know what the subject is walking out of the frame toward. While the viewer doesn\u2019t know what the subject is walking toward, she appears confident and assured of her course, much like the subject of my paper who is confident of what comes next for her because of her beliefs. Another reason I chose this photo is because the background is a vacant <\/span>Books Inc.<\/span><\/i>, a store which (unlike most bookstores) moved location, leaving this space empty of knowledge but transferring it somewhere else, which is essentially what the subject of my paper believes happens to her mind in the quantum realm which proceeds after life on earth. <\/span><\/p>\n

To manipulate this photo, I duplicated it in black and white and created a mask, exposing the an area of the first colored layer. I then used a white fill copy of this selection for the passage, using a font similar to the <\/span>Books Inc. <\/span><\/i>logo for symmetry.<\/span><\/p>\n

Japanese Stab Binding Book<\/h4>\n
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