Last week I was assigned my first shooting assignment in Photo III, the final class I have to complete for my photography minor. The goal of this “Mini Series” was to find a place you can visit at least once a day and study it. This place had to be explored through changes in light, point of view, and perception.
For my place I chose a small CD display cabinet in the music wing of the Dorothy Young Center for the Arts. I pass the CD cabinet almost every day when I go practice french horn, and the change in lighting through a nearby window always intrigued me at different times of day.
My final series features images taken primarily at night because the soft lighting proved to be so eye-catching. The series begins with a narrow field of view and provides little context to make the viewer wonder what the place is. Gradually, every photograph reveals more and more until it is clear that individual images contain unique elements of the CD display cabinet.