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B.A. Ceramics Weathered Beauty For as long as I can remember I have enjoyed photography. But it wasn’t until my sophomore year at Hopewell High School that I was first introduced to the magic of the darkroom. During the years since then I have received photo assignments from my photography teachers of an idea to photograph. And each time I have been drawn back to these weathered and overgrown objects around my house and around me. Through these seven years I have photographed and fell in love with these pieces of junk that have been left behind by people. And this has translated in to an infatuation with the rusted and overgrown pieces around me. The love of these objects has been translated in to my photographs. Through my photographs I can capture the objects as they are disintegrating back in to the earth from which they were originally made from. To give them a lasting memory even once they are gone. With that in mind I only saw it fitting to do my Bachelor of Arts Photography show on these objects around my house. When photographing these objects I keep them tight within the frame, so that your eye only sees it. Never shooting any father than five feet from the subject matter helps to capture the detail and texture of the object. Because I am shooting so close I wanted to enlarge my images to 16x20. Printing the image this big and staying close to the object helps for the viewer to see the detail of the rust, grass, and wood. This helps to get a real feel of the degradation that is occurring to these objects. In a way my show is paying homage to the objects that have been overgrown and weathered through the years; and to never be seen again. All of my photographs were shot with a Canon EOS SLR on Ilford Delta 100 Professional film. And they were all printed on 16x20 Ilford Multigrade IV Fiber based paper in the darkrooms of UNC-Asheville, Owen Hall.
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