Photography - Student Portfolios

Dylan Graham, Winter 2012 (8 Photos)

Satori captures the inevitable fate all living creatures must face: death. Human beings have often believed that life is warranted to those with meaningful lives; at least this is what we perceive to be true based on our interactions with the world. It is when we are face to face with the death of insignificant creatures that we can begin to eliminate our differences and see that life is both equal and beautiful; where the separating line between us and them vanishes.

Honey bee on it's side
Cicada bug lying on it's back
Four-legged flying insect lying on it's back
Butterfly on it's back with wings spread out
Moth lying on it's back
Black beetle lying on it's back

Jenna Raber, Thesis 2010 (8 Photos)

"Family of Heroes" is a testament to the day when we realize that parents are not superheroes, that aunts are not invincible and grandparents are not everlasting and innocent.

 

    Two women at a dining room table
    Man and woman lying in bed
    Man in recliner using an oxygen tank
    Boy wearing a Ghostbusters t-shirt wearing black caper mask and cape
    Woman wearing a black caper mask
    Woman wearing a black caper mask while putting on makeup

    Brianna Trudell, Thesis 2009 (7 Photos)

    "and then it's gone" uses photography as a representation of fragility and the finite instead of using it to represent a place, person or event. A polaroid 669 image frozen in a block of ice slowly melts and becomes inaccessible.

     

      Ice with image inside on a black table melting
      Side view of ice frame
      Front view of ice frame
      Empty table where ice was
      Other side view of ice frame
      Frames with images that had melted

      Ben DeHaan, Thesis 2009 (6 Photos)

      "...I started transforming the human body into something else. I wanted the viewer to lose their self-awareness and see the self as object."

       

        woman in kitchen and her head is that of a chicken
        person reading a hunting mag with the head of a animal with antlers
        man in a bath and his head is a cat's head
        man at dinner table with a face of a dog
        Person with the head of a sheep in a chair, coffee cups every where
        Person with the head of a goat licking a wall and peeling paint

        Todd Manna, Thesis 2009 (8 Photos)

        When we dwell on our past it has a tendency to consume us.

         

          Man crouching with a morphed arm reaching back
          One male nude pulling another along the ground
          Male nude with five arms holding knives
          Six white doors against a stark black background
          Two male nudes, one tied up, one holding the string
          man holding his legs while a morphed arm holds him up

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