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About Me
- SimpsonFilms
- I have graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). I'm currently working on a self assigned project in the Caribbean. I'm documenting the culture and people of a small island named Bequia. I'm looking for a gallery either in Brooklyn or Manhattan to show this body of work upon my return.
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This two part series is very cleverly documented. I like the mixture of detail that is present in the separate photos. For example, the boats that are being brought in from the harbor, to the fin hanging over the edge of the boat, to the portraits of the fishermen, and the close ups of the fish, and even the entrails (Which i strangely have always loved). What i like just as much as the photos though is the story/ description of the event. After i read over the story and then again read through the images, i'm thinking how you could combine the strong points of each to benefit your visual storytelling...Immediately i think of chronology, you know, one photo to the next. How are people going to read the photos? How do you want them to read it? is it a 1,2,3,4,5 sequence or 5,3,4,1,2 sequence? That's something you can always dictate. I'll give you a hypothetical sequence of photos based off the story you've written to maybe make better sense...1.You begin the series with photos of the harbor before the sun comes up, before any action has even started. 2.Then you could show the minor things that start to occur, maybe some lights on the boats or locals that have woken up early. maybe tables being brought out, people gathering tools, some doing ordinary morning chores. 3. fueling boats, tying nets, stringing fishing rods, etc. These three steps could function as the anticipation shots, showing that further actions will occur later...like a build up of suspense almost, foreshadowing. 4. Maybe next could be the beginning stages of action and the catch. Do you have any photos while on a boat, fishing? Even if the photo wasn't from that particular day...who would know? it could definitely benefit the story. 5. Photos of the tables, the cutting, the grabbing, the commotion, the cluster of people... 6. the water, and the blood spreading, clouding everything. 7. Seagulls in the air, clusters of birds. (action shots) 8. Then maybe the downhill of the event, when everything slowly begins to calm.The water settling, the blood dissipating, the sun slowly going down. 9. The people clearing out, the sun setting, maybe shots of the harbor as it gets dark again. (coming full circle from the beginning of the day, suggesting a cycle of events).
Really, you could do a lot with the pacing of photos, and the sequencing as well, to write your own step by step of the day. Not necessarily a 1,2,3,4,5 step by step, but any sequence you want, evening adding photos in from different days to create a new chronology, or new context...
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