Artist Statement:
Over the years I have come to learn and love many different forms of photography. This year I focused mainly on portraits and playing with the different ways of representing people and emotions through photographs. I have taken candids and the common posed portraits as well as a few silhouettes. I also began experimenting with HDR photography. I have recently begun combining the two to photograph HDR portraits.
I have never really found influence in famous photographers, but more from my peers around me. I have observed the various styles of photographs my peers take and begin to experiment for myself within the various styles to make it my own. My photographs are largely just based on trial and error. For example, I started to do silhouettes one day because I was taking portraits and we were playing with a screen when we decided to move the light behind my subject and place them behind the screen; thus leading to the silhouette portraits.
I have never really found influence in famous photographers, but more from my peers around me. I have observed the various styles of photographs my peers take and begin to experiment for myself within the various styles to make it my own. My photographs are largely just based on trial and error. For example, I started to do silhouettes one day because I was taking portraits and we were playing with a screen when we decided to move the light behind my subject and place them behind the screen; thus leading to the silhouette portraits.