Utopia

Old City/New City

Panoramaz

Tracing Burnside

The conceptual prompt for this project was Signs of Life. I spent some time pondering the possibilities of this assignment, and came to an idea that I liked enough.

I started out in the day with my Nikon on Manual, with the shutter speed on bulb so that I could control the length of the exposure by releasing the button. I wanted to see what the city would look like over-exposed to the point where you could no longer see the people and cars, but only their traces. As night came, the content got richer.

Surface Tension

I'm starting this blog to consolidate my photography and video work for Craig Hickman's Fall 2011 Imaging the City course up at the White Stag in Portland.

This first piece is a mediation on surfaces. The five surfaces I found are the backdrop, the face behind the cellphone camera, the foreground of the cellphone camera and new interpretation of both the backdrop and the faces, the reflection on the cellphone's surface, and the metaphorical surface of the participant, who in each case was asked to pose for a picture while holding my cellphone as I sneakily took video.



Surface Tension from Tyler Centanni on Vimeo.