Jasmie Fuentes

 Diane Arbus is an American photographer who mainly used analogue black and white photography. Arbus's work was popular due to her subjects being marginalized communities; it was described as "bizarre, fantastic, and psychologically complex". While her later work was impressive, Arbus began her photography career doing fashion photography, which was very reputable, but this is work that was not inspiring to her.  While Arbus grew up in an affluent home, her childhood upbringing was not the best. Having been in a more affluent part of New York for a larger part of her life, she took a liking to subjects from marginalized communities. This interest brought out some of her best early works. I commonly refer back to the image of the child in the park and enjoy the pure rawness of the image of the child not being posed, just naturally behaving.  The rawness of her images, combined with the uncanny feeling it evokes, and the subjects, are what inspired me to further look into D...

Jerry Uelasmann is an American photographer who started his work in the darkroom. Uelsmann's work consists of multiple exposures and negatives together to construct a single image. The level of creativity and skill to be able to put images together without knowing how they will look when developed. I admire the process of working in the dark room, especially for executing constructed images.  Jerry Uelasmann's work is significant due to his technical ability to be able to merge images into one. While this picture would normally just be a nighttime exposure picture, the addition of the sand negative brings in a curious aspect to the image. Knowing that sand does not typically go inside a dining room, it intrigues me to continue to look at it. The feeling of curiosity and the mixture of unnatural ceilings, grounds, and composition was a great example for this assignment.  When developing my constructed images, I struggled to find which images would fit each other best. I struggl...

 When thinking of photographing myself, it is not something that I typically consider, as the age of selfies grows, self-portraits in that aspect are everywhere.  An artist that I think embodies herself in her art is Sophie Calle, a French photographer who emphasizes storytelling in her work. An important aspect to this is her lack of use of social media, she is quoted as saying " I am saying  saying a lot less than anyone who is writing about what they had for dinner last night, or where, or with whom. There are a lot of people who think that they know me, but that is completely false" (Sterr, 2025)". This is something that I find important because I also believe that not many people truly know who I am.  This is important when looking at her work and focusing on storytelling because of the language that she communicates through her images. This image in particular, I took interest in during my self-project, the projection of text for this, which you cannot say is s...

 While exploring the Magnum Photos website, I came across an article on Martin Parr, who became an associate in 1988 and served as the agency's president from 2013 to 2017. His series, in plain view, will be showcased in Paris in a few months as a memorial, which is described as a groundbreaking observation of society. In his own words Parr , took society's natural prejudice and gave it a twist. This created fictional  The reason this artist is relevant to my personal project is in part due to his ability to capture the interaction of society and their environment. This is most relevant to my personal project, as I chose the nearest coffee shop to our campus as my subject. In his photography, Parr captures English culture through the curation of the environment in his images. A series of his that is closely related to the direction that I would like to take my personal project is his 'Common Sense' series, that documented consumeristic culture. The reason that this seri...

 For this project, the person I looked more into for Light drawing inspiration was David Lebe. David's black and white drawing images from 1979-1980 are primarily interesting to me compared to his older work as he began to integrate more into the composition of the images. I enjoy the implementation of backgrounds and scenic scenes that he includes in his drawings.  Another aspect of his images that I enjoy is the attention to detail for smaller details, such as shirt creases and seams. This adds depth to the image and elevates it from a basic silhouette to a more detailed drawing.  Looking at his light drawing images from 1982, they include more of the object rather than the outline of the figures that he did in his early works. His usage of long exposure allows for more details of the object to be seen. While there are some aspects of the darkness of his early work that I enjoy, I can appreciate the visuals of the objects that are seen in his later work. 

 Often, we discuss how cars aren't the most interesting thing that we can photograph as they're generally similar. Freelander has an entire series where he photographs from inside of his car called " America by Car". This series was interesting to me because of the composition and framing of the images and how different each one was.  As someone who road trips often the beauty of traveling by car is being able to see geographical and infrastructure differences across the country. This type of photography is also unique because being in a car that is constantly in motion means you're constantly getting a new angle or image and most likely will not be the same from one second to the other. This is where framing really plays a role in these images where those same parts of cars that would be boring otherwise create a division that separate aspects and create a completely different image then what is on the other side of the frame. Also, in the topic of framing Freela...