Barbara Crane

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Final Proposal

Here's my proposal guys. Feed back is welcomed. =)

For the final project I plan on showing a group of photos (at least 10 of them). The project is based off the idea of the transitory and locations that fit that description. I have been spending a lot of time recently on the road, for various reasons, traveling around the tri-state area. This being such, I’ve been spending a lot of time in cars (as both a driver and a passenger), motels, and diners. I have noticed that these types of locations have a certain ambiance to them. My goal through this project is to do a series of portrait work (dealing with myself and the people I’ve been traveling with) that depicts this life style of moving from place to place and the locations you encounter on the way. The running title for the body of work is currently “Diners and Drives”. This name may change as the work continues to evolve. It is my hope to document my experience as an individual who is currently living this life style and depict these locations and people through the medium of fine art photography.

I plan on showing the photos on the wall. Ideally I’d like to try to create either a diner booth or a replica of a hotel room and show the photos on the walls of that space. I’d like to include instillation into my project (if time and resources permit) as I feel like my last instillation was successful and I would like to explore the medium more.

Valley Arts District

My friend Stephen is really involved with this organization. I encourage everyone to check it out. They're trying to turn unused factory spaces into an art community. They also have a lot of open calls for artists. It could be a good opportunity to get your work into a gallery.

http://www.valleyartsdistrict.org/

They have an art show coming up on March 31st where there will be music and pizza!

http://www.facebook.com/events/347031171998294/

Nightscapes

For my final project I am going to create a collection of photographs at night titled “Nightscapes”. I plan to have at least ten separate images that explore the way the light given in each location creates its own separate atmosphere. The images will encompass the areas in and around New Brunswick as I have become very familiar with it over the past few years and have had a good amount of experience in seeing it in the dark.

Over my life I have found that I enjoy the night much more than I do the day and find myself looking at things in the darkness and finding beauty all over the place. I would like to explore this further and start documenting the things that I find instead of merely identifying them to myself. I will have to work on composition of the images and making sure that my focus and exposure is spot on so that they have the sharpness and drama that I want to be a main focus of the series.

I think this will be a good project for me as I have recently been focusing on lighting in a studio setting and I would also like to focus on natural lighting in the situations I decide to photograph.

Missing Proposal

Having someone you know go missing is a terrifying thing. You hear and see ads of people missing, but never think it could be someone you know. In many ways not knowing about your missing friend/lover/colleague/etc is much worse than them being hurt or dead. Not knowing makes our imagination go into overdrive and imagine the many things that could happen or be wrong. But at the same time, we have to keep living our life.

"Sometimes, no matter how much faith we have, we lose people. But you never forget them. And sometimes, it's those memories that give us the strength to go on."

My friends' friend has been missing since the beginning of February and is suspected to have met with foul play. He is 24 years old and has a 6 year old daughter. This person is merely an acquaintance of mine, but the sadness and worry I feel over him has lead me to create this project. The project I'm working on is tentatively named Missing. I plan to create a series of images using local locations to recreate a scene of a person right before they have gone missing. Each image will be a standalone to represent a missing person. I have chosen several females that are or would be around my age that have gone missing from all over the U.S. This project will question the ways we feel and deal when someone you know goes missing. It also lets us put ourselves in a similar state of mind as the person that has gone missing. Some people may feel that, this is disrespectful toward the missing person and their loved ones. It may even seem cruel to poke at their pain. Missing is not being created to do the opposite of that, it may be inevitable to not feel pain from the event despite that, but human beings are strong and the memories of that person lets us keep living.

Bob Carey fighting breast cancer!

 

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