The Perfect Mentor: Dan Eldon

Being introduced to Dan Eldon's work has been one of the most inspirational experiences of my life. After a short seminar about Dan in photography class and a magnetic introduction to, The Journey is the Destination: The Journals of Dan Eldon, I was hooked. I noticed the way he poured his heart and soul onto the pages of his recovered journals and I was in a trance of infatuation,...

The Connective Cyanotype

Alternative processes in photography have distinguished themselves in my mind as bold ways of letting out a message creatively while making the viewer's eyes intrigued and thirsty for more. However, I believe the purpose of art is for people to make their own connections whilst lost in the mystery of an artist's work. This is exactly what I wanted to accomplish while putting together a "triple" exposure...

‎"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way." — Charles Bukowski

For this assignment, we needed to produce something marketable. Basically, I needed to be inspired by something I wanted the world to hear through my artwork, and make people listen. I figured it had to be something simple yet endlessly deep... like a short sentence written by Shakespeare. I was inspired after searching something on google and seeing the number of possibilities the search engine had...

"I've got a life sentence for breaking the rules of composition............what are you in for?"

Breaking the rules is not as easy as songs about teenage angst, delinquents and pro-peer pressure motivational speakers make it out to be. Well... at least not the rules of composition. Taking a photo successfully breaking the rules of composition AND looking beautiful at the same time have proved to be difficult while shooting for this assignment. In order for me to get a "so good it's bad" photograph,...