Painting with light II

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Photo 12- Contemporary Photographer

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Contemporary Photographer Criteria

1. Select a photographer who is currently living and working in the medium. Find a photographer who you are interested in. This is likely the most challenging and important of the steps; find a photographer that inspires you.
2. Research several using the internet. Find your top 5 five favourite. Write 5 important points about each and put in your journal with an image for each and narrow it down to one.
3. Write an article about the photographer's life, the medium, photostyle and offer an opinion reflection and commentary of their work in 500 to 750 words. Include a bibliography.
4. Email your photographer, let them know that you are interested in their work and you are doing a project for school based on their work. Ask them for some information. Print out your email to them and their response.
5. Share your contemporary photographer with the class any way you want. You are to articulate information from your article to the class verbally, and visually.
6. Photograph in their style, create a contact sheet and five 5 x 7 prints and one 8 x 10 print.

To select your photographer, I want you to try something: First write a list of people who you admire of all of the people you know personally. Select the top three and point form write five points of why you admire them. From the list, do a Google search based on the qualities you admire in people ie. "courageous photographers" or "photographers who inspire change". Just try it and let's see what you come up with.

When you find your photographer, make sure there is some information on them even a resume can be helpful, but it will help to get more. And you will need to find at least five photos of their style.

If that doesn't work for you,
Photography Now- visual list of contemporary photographers.
Yahoo Photo Masters- index of photographers
Museum of Contemporary Photography- look up collections and also browse by artist. (I love Colleen Plumb.)
Magnum Photo
CAPIC
PPOC
Lisa Pritchard Agency

Random/Theme Roll 1 per month

We are going to start the year long Random/Theme Roll assignment this month. Each month you are to take a "roll" approximately 20-30 photos of a theme. The topic is up to you, but they should be all based on a common theme of your choice. So each month, think of a theme and go photograph it with any format/style of camera you want to use. Could be digital, BW or colour film, polaroid, pin hole.

You will hand in a contact sheet of all of your images and put two images/prints in your journal.