SELF PORTRAIT

   Artist Statement:

1. In what ways do you think you need to improve?
    I think I really need to improve on my photoshop skills because my photos still seems kinda raw,  you can still see things in the photo that indicates I have photoshopped it. I need to improve my photoshop skills to make it look better.

2. In what ways have you got better at this kind of work?
    I think compared to my previous photos, my work this time have improved on the connection between my photo and the meaning I want to tell.  I didn't do a good job on previous projects that requires the photos have to contain symbolism because I didn't really think of what's the photo's meaning going to be when I take them. Now I will think about what's my photo going to tell people before I take them.

3. What was especially satisfying to you about either the process or the finished product?
    I would say it's the process. It's always fun to create a good photo, and when you're making it, you can feel the endless possibilities the photo have and you can have the choice to create it into any way you want.

4. What do you find frustrating about it?
    I would say it'll be the quality of the photo, I thought I would do a better job in making my photo look not that amateur, but the final work doesn't really looks like what I wanted to do at first.

5. If you're the teacher, what comments will you make about this piece?
   I would say this piece contains a lot of meaning in it, and I can feel there's a lot of emotion in these photos waiting for us to discover, too.

6. What grade will you give it, why?
  I will give this piece an A, it's looks really good and there's a lot of meaning and things for me to discover, but the creator of this can spend a little more time on photoshop and make this photo look better.

7. What's the one thing that you've seen you've seen in your classmates' work that you would like to try next time?
 One of my classmates combined the shape of an animal with her own photos, it made the photo look
really good and made her photo looks like a pro one. I want to try to put my own photo into other things' shape another time, maybe It'll make my photo look better!

8. What would you change if you have the chance to do this piece over again?
     I would make one of two of my photos in a a different way, such as blur or light writing.....
and I will try to make more adjustments to make my photo looks like a pro one.
 
   

Symbolism/Meaning: It means a lot of teenagers lives a life that is full of parties and fun, soon they become numb of things in the real world.
Night Club lights: The mysterious, fun atmosphere that parties have, but also there's some danger in it, too.
Girl dancing: Teens wanted to enjoy the happiness of parties and they started to get wild and do things that might hurt themselves.
Arms raising up: Teens want to look for a purpose and freedom though fun from parties.

Symbolism/ Meaning: It's really hard to concentrate on studying because there's so many things that can interrupt you, even myself!
Me studying: Trying hard to concentrate on things.
Clones of me: Things I need to worry about, my other thoughts.....etc.

Symbolism/Meaning: Relationships are hard to form, but easy to break. We must perish every relationships and try not to do stupid things to ruin them.
Broken glass: Ruined relationships just like broken glass, once it's broken, it's really hard to fix it and make it looks like it once was.

CLONES(Self, part 1)

Apply light leak to each.

PORTRAIT ODDNESS

PRACTICE (PORTRAIT ODDNESS)

LIGHT WRITING (10)

READING PHOTOS(3+)

Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Photographer: Sebastian Liste
Original caption:
The leader of the Papo Reto collective receives an image of a 22-year-old taxi driver who was shot dead by a police officer on February 8, 2015. A group of friends from Alemão, a slum in Rio de Janeiro, formed a media collective called Papo Reto, or "straight talk". Social media allow them to report stories from their community otherwise ignored by traditional media.


Reading Question 1:

There's a man been shot dead in the streets, a people is looking at a photo about it.
Reading Question 2:
I will name it " Straight Talk "
Reading Question 3:
This photo is worth remembering is because that it shows that nowadays people have their own power to get their information,and show them to other people, too. Because of tech, we can have the power to uncover other sides of the same stories and understand them better.






Location: Shanxi, China
“China's Coal Addiction.” Chinese men pull a tricycle in a neighborhood next to a coal-fired power plant in Shanxi, China, on November 26, 2015. A history of heavy dependence on burning coal for energy has made China the source of nearly a third of the world's total carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, widely cited by scientists and environmentalists as the primary cause of global warming. 

Photographer: Kevin Frayer

Original Caption:

Reading Question 1: 
I see a lot of tall chimneys discharging gas, and people walking on the frozen street.
the houses aren't tall and they are two men pulling a tricycle.
Reading Question 2 :
The most important part of the picture is that there are so many chimneys letting out gas that can harm people, but the people there are still using coal and even live close to the factories.
Reading Question 3:
I might feel tired and not feel well if I'm living in this photograph. There are so many gas that might harm me and I'm inhaling al those gas all the time. Even more, if I live there, I might need to work in the factory for long hours, so I might feel really tired.

Location: Marrakesh, Morocco
Reading Questions 2:Reading Questions 3:


Photographer: Takashi Nakagawa
Original Caption:
 Marrakesh, Morocco, is an exciting city for any traveler, but I was tired of walking on the crowded street and being asked for money from local people, so I was looking for a place to settle down. Even though there were a lot of people in Ben Youssef Madrasa, it was still a more quiet and relaxing place than outside. Suddenly a beautiful reflection appeared on the shallow pool when I was taking a rest.

Reading Questions 1:
From a scale from 1 to 10, I will probably give it a 9. I think the photographer did a great job about capturing the perfect moment, if you cut this picture in half, you can notice that the left side and the right side is equal, so is the upper part and the lower part. it create a beauty formed by equality.

If I have this photo, I might take it to a photography contest. I probably will print it and make it into a bigger version, hang it in my house, too.

The place that the photographer is in is a school, so there might be some sounds of people reading, teacher talking.....etc