Blog Prompts 19 and 20

#19. Can you think of anything that:

1) should not be photographed? Why

I believe that everything should be photographed and documented. There is not one thing is this world that doesn't mean something to someone in this world.

2) cannot be photographed? Why?

I believe that everything can be photographed. There may be things like ideas or other non-physical that may be hard to photograph, but everyone has their own way of expressing things like this. So things may be hard to photograph but possible. 

3) you do not want to photograph? Why?

I find myself to be very open to everything in general. I do not think that there is one thing I would feel uncomfortable photographing. I would be interested in photographing everything possible, to at least have some experience in every subject matter. 

#20 Describe at least one photograph that you could take for each of the following “place” prompts.

• An image of a synthetic “place” such as Disney World, Las Vegas, a Hollywood set, a diorama, etc.

I think a really neat idea for a photograph for a synthetic place would be to set up a diorama or a doll house to get a feeling of a fake setting. After that I would super impose images of real people interacting with with this fake or surreal furniture and setting.

• An image of a fantasy/fictitious environment concocted from your imagination.

For an image involving fantasy I would attempt to do some type of light painting. I would take a picture with a subject matter of stuffed animals with an almost alien light green lighting that would cast near or on them. The light painting would give a greater sense of a fictitious environment.  

• An image of a placeless space such as the Internet, cell phones, e-mail, e-bank, surveillance, etc.

For a spaceless space I would depict an email inbox. In this image the inbox would be full with a large amount of messages that were unread, and also have a lot in the junk folder. It would be a never ending source of frustrations because of the never ending messages.

• An image of a public space.

If I were to take an image of a public space I think I would take a double exposure of a playground. The first exposure would have children playing on the playground, and the second exposure would consist of adults playing on the playground. I would blend these together to create in image to show a passing of time.

• An image of a private space.

An image of a private space in a photograph could consist of the view of looking up someone's shirt or down someone's pants to create an interesting, intimate, and very private space.

• An in-between space that brings to mind one of the following ideas: nomadic lifestyles, displacement, rootlessness, out-of-placeness, boundaries, movement, expansion, etc. 

 I think I would create an image that had to deal with the issue of diversity. I would take a group of people of the same ethnicity and place one person of a different ethnicity within this group, to create an out-of-placeness for that individual.