Final Photo Documentary/ and final photos

Revised Contract

My Senior studio project will be a series of 8- 16 photos. The photos will be taken with a canon Rebel t3i dslr and edited with adobe photoshop. They will be displayed in a hazmat tent.

The concept that drives my project is self-reflection. The story is based off of my own personal experience with self-reflection over the summer. My project will deal with seeing the flaws in ones heart, and the masks that people wear to hide these from others. The piece will follow around a modern day plague doctor in hazmat garb, which includes a suit and gas mask. The doctor will be attempting to help a victim of the technological plague that causes people to die of isolation. He fails and the person dies. The doctor will return home and removes his suit and mask in front of a mirror to show that he himself is infected by the plague and couldn't even help himself.

The style of photography is going to be fairly straight forward photography with minor photoshopping to accentuate certain features, or HDR photography with similar accentuation on details. Both will be tested and the best result will be used. It will be displayed in a small hazmat tent, the viewer will be given a doctor/surgeon mask prior to them entering the tent for the viewer to have for their own realization that they are physically removing a mask of their own. Which will bring them closer to their self-reflection process.

Photos will be printed in the cave lab on whatever paper I deem fit and will be 2-3 feet tall and 1-2 feet wide and framed. The glass in the frames will possibly be broken, scratched, and damaged to go along with the theme of abandoned and broken down as well as the theme of the plague. Materials needed will be a Cannon Rebel T3i, hazmat suit, gas mask, body paints, black lights, printer paper, possibly a light kit, a tripod, and a hazmat tent.

The New Age Plague Doctor

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dupont-Tychem-Tyvek-QC-QC127-Chemical-Hazmat-Suit-X-LARGE-YELLOW-NEW-SIZE-XL-/251308922726

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Israeli-Gas-Mask-New-Black-Military-NBC-w-NATO-40-mm-Filter-Bag-Never-Worn-/131000479098

Plague

plague  (plg)

n.

1. A widespread affliction or calamity, especially one seen as divine retribution.

2. A sudden destructive influx or injurious outbreak: a plague of locusts; a plague of accidents.

3. A cause of annoyance; a nuisance: "the plague of social jabbering" (George Santayana).

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/plague

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_(disease)

Social Isolation: A Modern Plague

Social Isolation: A Modern Plague.

Published on July 13, 2009 by Stephen Ilardi, Ph.D. in The Depression Cure

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-depression-cure/200907/social-isolation-modern-plague

Social isolation kills more people than obesity does—and it’s just as stigmatized.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2013/08/dangers_of_loneliness_social_isolation_is_deadlier_than_obesity.html

Interiors and Medeval Furniture

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/Southampton_Medieval_Merchants_House_Hall.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/drterileigh/3580304867/in/photostream/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Southampton_Medieval_Merchant%27s_House_bedroom.jpg

http://virtualmentor.ama-assn.org/2006/04/mhst1-0604.html

Reference Photos

Maya house