“between worlds”

digital PHOTOGRAPHY; 09/2020

THIS PIECE WAS A PART OF MY semester PROJECT, FOR MY high school PHOTOGRAPHY CLASS (ap 2d art and design, 2020 junior year, INSTRUCTED BY brian guilfoyle).

For this project, we were assigned to choose and develop an overall concept and create 15 concentrations. My concept was “Youth”

Artist statement:

these photos are arranged to signify the general space between childhood and adulthood. I wanted to keep this piece very simplistic in order to emphasize the minimalistic details in each halves of the composition. In the first photo on the left, the model is seen walking careful amongst rocks. She is at the very bottom of a massive hill and appears to be very small. On the other side, the model is much bigger and is seen to be in the clouds. However, unlike the cautious and curious nature of the first photo, in the second photo the model has a clouded and more matured expression. When the expression “between worlds” comes to mind, I imagine two drastically different worlds being held side to side. Despite being of different natures, both coexist. In terms of experimentation, I experimented a lot with the lightnings of each photo. Originally the first photo was much darker and the second photo was much lighter, however I wanted to show that the first photo represented childhood through a brighter lighting, and the second photo to represent adulthood through a darker lighting. I adjusted with the lightings until I found them to be noticeably different yet not too different. In addition, I decided to revise my first draft by adding a white line between the two photos, to really highlight the separation of these two different stages. A huge part of youth includes coming out of childhood and coming into adulthood.  When looking at adults, deprived of their youth in the real world, they are viewed as mature, yet in the shadows of life. To a teennager, this line “between worlds” seems fairly simplistic yet bold. It is a very clear yet frightening line that everyone in their youth must face and eventually cross.