This is my last year in high school and the end of this part of my life. I wanted to take time to think throughout the year and not let it pass me by. To do that I look for calm around me to give myself time to focus and think about my experiences. In my photos I show good times and bad, but I try to always convey a sense of peacefulness. There is no sense of peace in the photo of the empty city, it took me a moment to find it again when quarantine hit. At the start of this year I was taking photos of the world around me, but as I became more focused, I started to see more of myself in my photos. In my first photos there's a sense of freedom in a carefree environment. The next photos show a scare my family had in December that ended the carefree nature of things. That was a somewhat chaotic experience, it showed me the importance of finding calm. By the end of my investigation my photos show more focus and concentration, both in my compositions and the environment I'm observing. I take my camera with me now not to point it at what looks good, but to create something I've crafted and shaped with practice, and introspection. |