This is a sneak preview of a project I am working on for my alternative photography class. The assignment is "Megorokiteni" which is the Russian word for photograph. The literal translation is "to make last forever." So, for my project I am learning more about my Grandpa Northrup and photographing things that represent them. The end result will be a book containing photographs and words people have written about my grandpa. So, this is just a few of the images I have taken so far.
The process I am using to print these is called Van Dyke Brown. I'll create digital negatives of each image and then do a contact print onto Bristol paper coated with a sensitizer. The images are then exposed to UV light, rinsed with water and fixed. The result is an antique brown colored image. I think it will help enhance the idea of these images being memories.
These are some photos I have done recently. The dresses and birdhouses were made by my friend Rachel. She will be selling them on Etsy soon, so if you are interested, let me know. The others are some I took at Sundance and the surrounding area while working on my "Sit" assignment.
Here are a couple projects I've done thus far this semester. The first is a poster promoting one of the 31 human rights declared by Amnesty International. The second is a photo montage for my Photoshop class.
"While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see." ~Dorothea Lange
"If we examine every stage of our lives, we find that from our first breath to our last we are under the constraint of circumstances. And yet we still possess the greatest of all freedoms, the power of developing our innermost selves in harmony with the moral order of the universe, and so winning peace of heart whatever obstacles we meet." ~ Goethe
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." ~Helen Keller
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but so often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." ~Helen Keller
"When you feel weak, discouraged, depressed, or afraid, open the Book of Mormon and read. Do not let too much time pass before reading a verse, a thought, or a chapter." ~President Boyd K. Packer
"Satan frees us to bind us; God binds us to free us." ~Cecil B. Demille
“Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.” ~G.B. Stern
"There are few things in life that bring as much joy as the joy that comes from assisting another improve his or her life." ~Richard G. Scott
The secret to happiness: something to do; something to look forward to; someone to love.