PERIPHERAL
With peripheral vision, I try to take in the bigger picture of my surroundings and the people within them. For photography, I attempted to mimic this within my own work, while showing the subject interacting within their own space. Trying to push away from my previous commercial-like portraits to move onto a more distant narrative, showing a more fly-on-the-wall perspective with a wide-angle lens. I took inspiration from Larry Sultan’s “Pictures from Home” wanting to push the portraits in my own style. As a constant observer of strangers, showing the ones I interact with the most shows the most realistic depictions of them.
For environmental portraits, I want to be able to push the environment as much as possible while showing how the subject interacts with it. I am presenting friends and family doing what they normally do when they are in their homes and their mark on them as well. The 4 x 5 view camera made the subjects acknowledge me in their space while taking their picture, however with photographing them in action took their focus elsewhere. This is a series based off of the people around me as they did what they did in their free time and I hope that the viewers can relate these images to different people in their life as well.