Nicholas Aria, Crystal Kim & Leticia Villalba
Photography, “whether professional or amateur” is a powerful medium which allows for one to express their emotions and feelings. In everyday digital photography, there is an implicit acknowledgement that rests upon old versions of the self as well as collections of objects and experiences encountered in everyday life. The theme of our photo essay, ‘Urban Jungle’ and the sub-theme, ‘The Rusted Decay’, explore the urban eye and it’s ongoing decay into nothingness. Through our photos and edits we attempt to locate the beauty and ‘everyday aesthetics’ of everyday mundane and forgotten run-down infrastructure. This is why the style of our photos resemble the new category of photography, ‘ephemera’, which seems to speak to a new aesthetic and function.
We have saturated the colours of our photo in order to convert feelings of sadness and loss and shift them into a new idea of liveness and beauty which highlight the confluence of digital technology.
Through programs such as iPhoto and iMovie, we edited the style and look of these images, increasing saturation, definition, position, contrast, fading of music etc. Furthermore, we only used two transitions throughout the entire video to allow for a smooth flow in between each image. The music also complements the video creating a feeling of longing in relationship to the temporal in urban aesthetics. We used the track ‘Sandstorms’ from the band Thunderthief, we obtained copyright permission through Nick asking the band member/friend Nicholas Johnson if we could use the song (this conversation can be seen below).
References
Murray, S 2008, 'Digital images, Photo-Sharing and Our Shifting Notions of Everyday Aesthetics', Journal of Visual Culture, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 131-146.
Music: ‘Sandstorms’ by Thunderthief, purchased/downloaded from: http://thunderthiefofficial.bandcamp.com/
Permission from Thunderthief member:
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