Almuneda Carracedo & Robert Bahar

Online artist 5

I have seen this at a film fest in North Park. This documentary follows the story of three women immigrants who worked in the garment industry, underpaid and overworked. In the process a boycott against the popular young women's retailer Forever 21 was made. I thought this documentary was both beautifully shot and the story was also compelling. Besides photography I also enjoy creating videos. I think I could use some of the skills I have learned and continue to learn in photography, and apply it in how I shoot my video footages.

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Tony Howell

Online Artist 4

I absolutely love night photography. I guess I could have done a special project about night photography, but the self transformation book was really important to me too. I came across this photographer from the UK online. He actually does different kind of photography. There is something about the night...when the last light of the sun is about to go out and the sky does not look black but rather a deep shade of blue. Sometimes you get lucky and see some shades of purple. I just love it. In a way I been experimenting with night photography before this semester even started, and I'll probably will be coming across it again in my work.
Here are samples of some of my early night shots.

Final Book Update

Hooray! My book is finally done. This book has become very personal. It was both hard (as sometimes it is hard to look back at the past) and pleasurable working on it. Though, I don't think I had enough time to really vividly express my self transformation, I believe this book captured some bits of my life that have shaped the person I am today. So here are some pages from my book.

Anne Geddes

Online artist 3
Date viewed: April 8, 2008


I love seeing these small infants wrapped around petals of flowers. They look so beautiful and so peaceful. I wonder how she creates her images, It looks like she uses Photoshop, but I read she rarely use digital cameras. On her website there is a series called Miracle, a collection of her favorite pictures in 25 years of work. All of the pictures are of infants wrapped in different kinds of flower. She mentioned she shoot mostly in the early morning since that seems like the time the babies are calm. Finding the right time to photograph your subject is definitely plays a role. I know first hand how hard it is to stop a crying baby, and yes I also remember that magical time of calmness. Such as when your baby is finally asleep, and you look at her and think what an incredible small person. How innocent and pure. Some of her images definately reminds me of that moment.

aaah...spring break

Over the weekends I went to take more pictures for my artist book. This took me to my old high school, around our neighborhood, and just places where I use to go to a lot. I been working on my artist book during this spring break...we only have about a month to finish this before it's due...and I'm feeling kinda anxious. I'm working on some other stuff, but these few days my focus is to get this artist book going. I'm building more ideas as I go. I just bought a new scanner which I got for a pretty good deal at the store so I can start scanning some materials. My process right now is to just get the layout and the images going, and then concentrate on the text later on.

I have also reconsidered the names for my chapter like for this one I'm thinking instead of "As a teenager" I'm replacing that title to "As becoming" I feel like a lot had happened through my teenage years and even my early twenties...I wanted to include my early twenties with this chapter. Plus this title is more ambiguous than the previous one, which is intentional.

Anyway the semester is almost over, and I can't believe graduation is near. Maybe I'll have a nice vacation somewhere after graduation!