2021 Photo
Ella Gunn
Cyanotype
In my self-directed folio I explored ideas of anxieties for the future and the different experiences in life for each person. Throughout this year I have experienced many anxieties and concerns regarding my future after leaving high school, which is something that I explored in my photographs. However, I not only wanted to present my own concerns, but also explore the nature of people’s fears as they reach important parts in their life. Through the use of pathways and roads, I explored such an idea, using them as metaphors in the photograph for the path leading to your future. I aided in this exploration with my use of one of the first photographic techniques, the cyanotype of which I was inspired to do by the contemporary artist John Dugdale and traditional artist Ansel Adams. I played with the relationships between humans and nature, and through the use of the cyanotype, which adds a moodiness through the intensity of the blue, I was able to depict all of my own anxieties in the photographs as well as the nature of human beings fears as they reach precipices in their life. |
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