95.

     This is my cousin. She is so cute—taller than me, like most of cousin now, but still cute. She's a round face with huge eyes. She looks like a Tim Burton drawing - so obviously, I love it. Going with the Time Burton theme, I made this look like film stills, as I do most of my work. I also wanted to play around with her camera. 

94.

     I didn't know Ava was coming over until 10 minutes before she was here. We didn't really do much but I found that my mother had put Ma Tante's bed in the empty part of the basement and the light from the window fell very nicely on it.

93.

      This is the final installment for my seminar project. At this point, I feel as though I have perfected, or at least gotten much closer to, the method of photographing these people. Last time I did a project like this, I felt like I wanted to continue it and feel the same way with this one. It is not complete but it was a semester project and now it's over. I supposed there is no reason I should stop, I certainly do not HAVE to but, who is the audience? Where is the time?

92.

      This is one of the rare times when Ava wanted to shoot so I threw these images together. I think she got a boost of confidence because Su and Eliza told her she was famous in New York and that she will one day be a real model. I didn't really like her outfit so I hid it or underexposed it. Her hair was straight, which was weird - I am so accustomed to working with her curls and the implications that come along with them. The straight hair made her look older and it gives the images an uncomfortable feeling. I love how she acts in front of the camera - the dead eyes she gives me, I love it.

91.

     This is another installment of images for seminar project. I have started looking at the people as characters. I have been only taking horizontal pictures so they look more like film stills Although that goes against the theatrical aspect, it goes along with my photographing them as characters. The light is theatrical in some and cinematic in some, either way, I love play with it.
     I especially love the the moment I caught from Jessica Chastain. I feel that it looks very cinematic in an old Hollywood way, as though her character was being yelled at by or saying goodbye to the man in the hat. And she looks beautiful - with her lipstick and curled hair - it's all quite perfect. I was lucky to get that one, I think. I do need to get images of the actors with their eyes up, but the sad look on her face works in the case, I think.
     They are crappy scans but I don't intend on spending the time until the final is due - I just did a quick scan of all of them.

90.

       Although I should have, I have not completely decided on a seminar project. Thus far, I have been going to mid town and photographing the people coming out of the theatres. For one, I love the feeling of coming out of show, it is like coming from some alternate world into the bright, dirty, New York reality. I love the people that get dressed up, I love the old people milling around each other, I love the congregations at the stage doors - the devout few waiting for a picture or an autograph. I love the cops containing the crowds to the side walks. I love the sleeping men in town cars, waiting for some performer to take home. I love shooting in the dark. The grainy, almost black images I get is what I see. Using only available light poses a big problem but there is something so romantic about the final product that I don't really care if I get two good images on one roll. It is a almost reminiscent of theatrical lighting, which, in this case, couldn't be more perfect.
    There is something I like very much about the theater: the fact that interaction is possible. I love that when you applaud, the performers hear you, they see you and you are REALLY seeing them. That is something I love about the stage door, ha, they're actually real people and they love to perform for you and you love it when they perform.  I have been playing around with the ads (the ads that I really hate, the design is quite tacky). I have been attempting to make it look as though the people are interacting with the people in the ads in sort of nod to that notion.