A. Montagna's images

I have been quite industrious this weekend.
I spent a lot of time flipping through my medical records and insurance claims forms, rejection letters and general information about what is wrong with me.
I also spent a lot of time in thought. Thinking about how cancer has changed my life, and my outlook on life. Also what it has done to me physically and emotionally.
During the past year, I have lost a LOT of hair. Never going bald, but getting bald spots. Doctors say there are a couple of factors. Most likely due to stress from 2 serious car accidents,also from my medicines, and my treatments.
I decided that I should incorporate this hair loss into my series somehow. So all weekend I have been taking photographs and playing around with them.
These are some of the results I got.Which ones do you think are successful? What should i press further? what should i change?

Where to go from here?

With my body of work this semester, I had planned on continuing my pursuit to photograph sports. I have done countless events and thought i'd be satisfied with just shooting stock sports photography, which didn't happen. I started to shoot a specific team (vcu lacrosse), hoping that a narrative or structure would form from that, to me it just didn't seem to work. Instead i've now started to move into the direction of just photographing the sport of lacrosse itself. Sure, there are some stock action photos in there, but really i am now trying to just capture the essence of the sport by documenting the sport and hopefully the culture surrounding it. I plan to shoot other events, spanning from division 1 lacrosse all the way down to youth lacrosse, i want to photograph a range of age groups, hoping something emerges from the diversity of age, atmosphere, etc. I've posted the most recent photos for consideration on my blog, please check by there and give me some feedback if you would, let me know how you think the work is going, and what i may do to improve upon the body of photos.


p.s. I'm also working on a side project where i will be documenting the richmond bike scene. I have close friends who are really into BMX biking, etc. There is also a big bike event going on down at Belle Isle, so i will be documenting all that, in hopes that I can capture a new side of photography, at least from what I've been shooting. I'd really like to make connections at this event, so i can document the movement more intimately with other people within the area. With this work I'd like to capture a range of images from building bikes, riding bikes, and other actitivities surrounded by biking. My hopes is to create a body of work that creates a narrative through the sequence of images, allowing people to look deeper into something they're not directly a part of, to get a better understanding.

My blog is here.

Untitled as of yet

These are images I've been working on. I'm struggling with whether or not I should have a person or human element in the photographs or right after the object may have gotten there. the one with me laying in the kitchen is one I'm most unsure about, it also needs a ton of work still but I wanted to put it up to show anyways. I also was not sure about which earings in the litter box looked better. I personally like the close up, but I suppose it could be argued that its too staged looking and that the one pulled out tells more of the story. Comments are very very welcome.

Pierson

Jacquelyne Images

These are some images I have been working with right now. I have more and plan to take a lot more. My whole concept is based off of a narrative, but not one in particular. I want the audience to somehow be able to relate to what is going on in the photographs or somehow put themselves in that position. However, I am trying to make the images speak to the audience in some way, shape or form. I want there to be some sort of narration that gives off a voyeuristic emotion within the viewer. Right now, the images do not really separate themselves from a one moment. I am continuing to shoot more and more so the final prints give a sense of time lapse and not look like they were taken over a course of a few days. I started using only myself, but when I brought another figure into the photographs, the narration I wanted to achieve started to show. I still have some questions on presentation and how the feel of the overall images. I am thinking about printing them large and having some close together while others are more spread about the wall. I want them to have a loud feeling but not overpower the viewer. So my question is, how should I present them? Would they work big? And what about having some black and white? I posted the sky pictures because I wanted to incorporate photographs with the figures that represent them as individuals. the sky photographs were the first I took, but I plan on maybe doing some illustrations or taking more "detail" images that would work together and separately with the original images. Basically, I want the narration to have a progression that portrays the individuals. So any ideas or suggestions would be helpful...

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Amanda Meyer (The rest of the series)

These are recent images I shot for my series, let me know what you think.

other images

These are the two of the four that I am printing for Anderson instead of the last two posted below.

works in progress

so here are the images i've been working on...

1. the first is obviously going to be printed large scale... 30x60 and im thinking about presenting the images in "frames" constructed of plexiglass and plywood.

2. the second image is a detail im going to use for the book and postcards.

3. the third image below is the second image im getting printed for the anderson gallery. i've done a lot of work on the sky and completing the coloration errors. 

do you think that the crop gets my message across?

any thoughts on presentation?

Saunders

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

tentative series

Looking for some feedback on these images. Let me know which ones you like and which ones need to go. Im still planning on shooting a lot but i've marked the four that I am printing to have ready for Anderson.

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Meeting Update

I am re-shooting some of the previous images that I used for last semester. I thought I would put the train figures back into their original settings. I was bothered and bored with the studio looking images - there were pretty straight forward and to the point, but I do not think they were visually pleasing. This is what I've done so far - I'm not sure if the environment is too much, or if it loses its purpose. Also, which shot is the most effective?

Rachel Craddock

So, I left this meeting feeling pretty good about my images and the work i'm doing. However, there is one problem I seem to be coming across over and over again and that is, do my images work together as a series? When I began this series I was shooting all my images using the exact same method and point of view. I liked the results I was getting but after a while they started to look the same and I began feeling as though they were too repetitive in their formal composition. This worries me because I don't want my audience to get bored looking at my images but I want to make sure that I stay true to the intent of my project. Just in case you forgot, my project deals with the historical areas of Richmond and in showing the evolution of the city over the years. I would love any feedback on how my images are working together, or if they aren't working, why? Please post any other comments you have, there is always room for suggestions!
Here's my favorites, old and new.

Amanda Meyer

In my meeting with Paul we discussed presentation of my work. I was thinking about framing with mismatched wood, gold, and silver frames. All of them about the size of a 5x7 photograph. This kind of presentation would staying with the materials and concept i have been using. I also feel that I could go another route with a more contemporary presentation. Something I had in mind was placing the images on a wood block, putting plexiglas over the top, and screwing each corner in. Just in case that was confusing the photograph would be in between the plexi and the wood: ) Although this seems far from the aesthetic of my images, I am torn with whether or not to keep completely within the time and character of the photographs or not or make it make it a more contemporary way of presenting it. This is my dilemma at the moment... let me know what you think.

Just let you know I am adding two images into the series from last semester. I want to use them because I think they speak to the series. As of right now my series is all black and white, if you think that these could possibly work in color please let me know. Also I am unsure about how I can add more then 3 photographs into the anderson show... I know that there are clever ways around that (i.e. gluing the frames together, taking a picture of three photos in one photo and framing that...) let me know if you have any ideas.
Thanks!