In this project I wanted to capture heritage through illusion. I took photos of parts of photos and cut and pasted them to a mirror. All of the photos I used were older photos of people in my family. I lined up or layered the photos to make it seem like my eyes were their eyes, or that my face was part of their face. I wanted to use the illusion to create a connection between me and previous members of my family.
I used a tripod in order to capture this photos without assistance and without camera shake.

I had three ideas for project 3. My first idea, the one I ended up choosing, involved using a mirror. I wanted to tape photos of ppl in my family to the mirror and create the illusion through collage of us being connected. A simple example would be half of the photo is a photo of their face, lined up with a photo of my face.
My second idea I call my Godzilla idea. I wanted to tape photos of a landscape to a mirror and photograph myself "in" the landscape. This would give the effect that I was comically large and towering over the space.
My third idea was to zoom in on household water areas. So I would photograph a sink very close up with props, to give the effect that it was a lake or ocean.

For this project, I wanted to explore an abstract version of a landscape. I mostly wanted to capture the creepy aura of the desert. When the desert turns from day into night what once seems vibrant and colorful can become dark and scary. I used some assistant light to capture the vastness and the unknown. I had models to try and depict the creatures of the night.

In this project, I aimed to capture the feelings I've had navigating Tucson since moving here. I photographed exit signs placed haphazardly where they do not belong. Some of the photos were meant to take on a humorous angle, like the exit sign floating in a pool. This humorousness was meant to reflect the chaos of city life and directionless urban sprawl. Some of my photos had exit signs in dumpsters or strewn in trees with trash. This captured the energy of the "Dirty T", a nickname for Tucson's dusty energy. I wanted my photos to reflect the chaotic energy that I view Tucson with.

Idea 1: bottle tabs moving in a path, changing arrangement
Idea 2: exit signs where there are no exit. This is meant to be vaguely humorous.
Idea 3: my third idea was egg cups because I figured they had not been photographed much.