For the personal photography project, I'm referring to the title of my project being called I'm Not A Believer. This is a series of narrative photos being photographed and taken through a makeshift set up I've created as the overhead view of a desk with materials over it. The fact being that this was done in a small apartment for me does feel like an interesting challenge I had to tackle on. The directional goal of the works is that I want there to be a mysterious and dreamy vibe, maybe ominous. I always have been invested with the fear of the future, it had been a personal fear of mine since I was a child. I always had been scared of the future, not knowing what the future holds for us and moving on forward to it.
The idea of text photography is a unique and interesting overview into our world, it tells a story, a narrative, into the viewer's or other people's mindsets internally through the usage of text. The various texts drawn and written within each photo previews kind of a different feeling of opening a page to see someone's concern and weary feeling if they are good enough or if they are even ready to meet the future. Doing this project was very emotional to me, I had to take breaks between taking specific shots for each segment, rearranging the scenes to continue with the sequences of events because it was that meaningful to me. What made me really excited was actually being able to make an accordion-like style book for the Student Show Gallery that is interactive and can be opened to take a further look into it.
The process to doing all this was very fun and challenging because this could've been done with some assistance, but I like finding challenges that rely on finding ways to position the camera, editing the lighting and exposure to give the photos a different feeling, and so forth. Researching various Photographers who used text photography is so intriguing, because once again, text photography is the duality between using text and photography to create a richly deeper complex of a narrative that a medium alone can do.
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