Final Project Critique

Due to hard drive malfunctions I cannot upload photographs of my work for tomorrow however they are all on my website:

www.wix.com/rosensamantha/samantharosenphotography

They are listed under "portfolio"

My artist statement is on there as well but here it is again:

Samantha Rosen

Artist Statement

I am interested in the behavioral patterns that emerge from the relations of heterosexual partners whose physical intimacy lacks emotional substance. These instances tend to leave the women in particular with a sense of emptiness and melancholy. Derived from recent observations of youthful relationships, these photographs are formally constructed in a manner that refers to this psychological void. I use a shallow depth of field to draw the viewers into the space of the photographs, forcing them to become directly involved in the scenes depicted. The soft lighting brings about a calm feeling while the subdued colors help to evoke the feeling of sadness resulting from these situations. The individual photographs are not sets in which an audience watches the action occurring; instead they are scenarios that the audience can experience. Conceived as a series, no one photograph can stand alone. The photographs are presented as diptychs and triptychs to reference narrative structures while also creating a level of disjointedness that relates to the emotive content. They are not to be viewed as staged scenes, but instead, snapshots of a longer story. The subjects are deliberately abstracted and anonymous, the women symbolizing the embodiment of the void felt after having these ultimately empty interactions.