(^my old work that best represents where my work is right now, who I am as an artist)
The Work of Alec Soth really inspires me because of the beautiful harmony he brings to his portraits through the atmospheric landscape, specifically in his body of work called Sleeping by the Mississippi. He pays a lot of attention to the environments his models are set into, and the photographs them in a way that is so authentic. He inspires me to think a lot about where to place models for portraits and I would like to do what he does; to photograph people in their natural environments. In context to the photograph I brought in that represents who I am as an artist right now; that body of work that photograph was included in had to do with how the relationships we have with others reflect who we are as people and our lives. And the other photograph I brought in had to do with how color relationships influence how people appear in the photograph, and which colors best match them as people, personality wise. I want to keep branching off of these ideas in this upcoming term. I have a lot of ideas that have to do with portraits and ways to portray people through the use of colors and the people that are close to them/influence or reflect them, as people, the most.
Example of Alec Soth's work:
Link to Alec Soth's work: http://alecsoth.com/photography/
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