Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Recreate II


For this recreation, I was thinking about my childhood relationship to reading and how it has changed as I've grown up. While I still really enjoy reading a good novel, there usually isn't much time for a 'fun' book in an average college student's busy schedule. The reading ends up being a dry textbook or a 37462983-page pdf online. It becomes more of a chore than an enjoyable hobby. This concept is reflected mostly in the bottom two photos. I did the top photo because I just loved the little girl's expression too much not to.

Several challenges I encountered: Photographing myself. It was tough to guess whether or not I was getting the whole scene in and scurrying over to position myself in the 10-second time frame I was alloted.  Also, since I was shooting in my little dorm room, I feel there is a lot of distractions in both of my recreations. However, the more I thought about it, this might add a new facet to the photos--going from a 'simple' life of a child, to a gradually more complex and 'messy' life of an adult.

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