Fall Portfolio

Artist Statement

For the Fall Portfolio I had to find my most cohesive photos, meaning the photos that best go together. To do this, I used some photos from my fifth batch along with other that I used in my portfolio first draft. All of the images that appear in this portfolio were narrowed down from a much large number of images. I narrowed down my photos to these images which all have many common characteristics. They all have many electrical wires, which help create depth and divide up the frame, especially the sky. As can clearly be seen, in each photo, the sky takes up at least half of the space, while buildings make up the other half. In addition to the depth created by the wires, all of the buildings in the images are captured from a diagonal angle in order to create depth. In editing these images, I kept the images in black and white, but I also edited the contrast of the images to show a larger differentiation between shades of grey. This dramatically improved the quality of each image.

Gabriele Basilico Series 5

Artist Statement

For this series, I created images that were inspired by my first portfolio draft. To incorporate similar aspects from my portfolio while also improving on quality, I took images that had sky and electrical wires in them in addition to pieces of infrastructure. Over the course of this project, I have found that electrical wires are a very important feature to the images because they divide up negative space (the sky) and provide depth. In the past, I did not always use wires to assist in the depth of the images, but in this batch I really focused on creating images with good depth. I successfully did so by pointing my camera at buildings on an angle and using wires to aid the process. In editing, I kept all of the images in black and white, but also made sure to bring out the different shades of darks and whites to create a clear differentiation between parts of the image. 

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