5 Photos - Ken Riley

Latest in the Crying Men series is my friend, Allen. 

Taken during the Art Department's trip to DC Saturday. I've always wanted to go to the new WWII Memorial so I snuck away and found this on the West wall. From what the placard said, the stars represent the 418000 American lives lost during the war.

  

April 5th Photos

Took these today, wondering if they will fit in with my series, I also re-photographed the tree and the graveyard... I will post a set up sketch (like Stephanie did) later on, or tomorrow of my idea of how to show my series on the wall. I also plan on bringing back more old photographs that I think I want to use to go with my series. I'm also working on revamping my artist statement (i'm a little stuck) but when I get somewhere with it I'd like to share it to get feedback.

Set up idea

This was a set up I was thinking of doing but I'm not sure if I want my images to go low to where the viewer has to bend down to see the bottom. I also don't know how I would print them - diptych or triptych - not really sure. I want this to be an experience for the viewer but I don't want it to intimidating either. It might be too much.

Portraits: 14 8.5x11

Landscape: 4 17x22

Smaller Landscapes:  4 5x7

Weekly, Sannah Kvist

Swedish photographer Sannah Kvist photographed students with a pile of all of their possessions in a pile in a corner titled "All I Own". This work is relevant considering I live on campus and am forced to move around a lot, and am forced to contemplate why I own some of the things I do, as are a lot of others (look at the dumpsters at the end of the spring semester near on campus housing!). This work pertains to consumerism and shows that no matter how little space we have, we will find a way to fill it with useless things. I remember a time when I was moving out of one apartment into another and had to pile all of my things in a corner in a temporary apartment in between leases and looked just as distraught as the students in these images. 

Weekly, Stefan Hancock

Matt Emmett - Forgotten Heritage

These photographs by Matt Emmett are from his series Forgotten Heritage where he has gone around and photographed places that have been forgotten all around the world. He says in an interview that anything abandoned and hidden from view is what he's most attracted to photographing. Some of his subjects included abandoned prisons, theaters, commercial buildings, steel plants, and more. You can see more photos from there series here.

5 Photos by Alli (sorry they're late)

From my trip to Birdsong Peanut Factory