Writing Assignment 3/19

1. A while back when I was first starting to really get in to photography my family went to a Skiing slopestyle competition (jumps and rails) so naturally I brought my camera. I took pictures all day of the different participants hitting the features. A few weeks later, while looking at the photos I got from that day I decided to try to composite some of them together. I was able to mask out the same skier hitting the same jump and put it together in one image to create an image that showed the skier multiple times at various points after jumping. It was the first time I had ever done something like that or edited a photo to that extent and it opened my eyes. After that I kind of realized what you could really do with photography, and what I could do without being taught nearly anything. That photograph was probably the start of me experimenting with my work and my skills within the work.

2. An artist that resonates deeply with me would probably be Nate Abbott. Abbott is more of a commercial photographer in the Skiing business. His work is what originally inspired me to pursue photography because after exploring the medium a bit myself, mostly with skiing as a subject, I came across his work and was completely inspired. Nate Abbott and myself also share similar beginnings in photography as it caught both of our interest while out skiing with friends.

3. Ansel Adams doesn’t work in the same genre or with the same concepts as Nate Abbott but he is also an artist who’s work resonates deeply with me and in some ways I feel my work fits more with his style of work than Abbott’s. Abbott and Adams’ work are the first place I look for inspiration and I hope to one day have work that I feel truly keeps company with theirs. Ansel Adams more so as he is important to art history for his contributions to landscape photography where Nate Abbott more or less found himself a niche.

4. I wouldn’t say that there is anything in particular from my upbringing that directly relates back to my work. However, I would say just about everything from the way I was raised to how I live today affects my work in some way or another because it affects how I see the world and that is how I view my photography, the world through my point of view.