Residency- Venice Arts- Issa Sharpe- 0 Hours
This week my class had spring break. Since I was also on Spring break, I used this week to focus on my own art. I practiced shooting color film on a 4 by 5 view camera. I went to Joshua Tree for the weekend and made photographs of the geological structures. I got stabbed by a cactus for the first time, which is a very hard thing to remove. The more you try to touch it, the more it stabs. Part of the reason I decided to practice large format color film is that many labs in California process it. In Minnesota, I would have to mail my negatives to California. However, I did not realize how expensive it was! Five dollars a sheet, that's five dollars a photo! So, it will be a bit before I see how those photos turned out.
Simultaneously, I started working on one of my finals. For my Photo II class at Otis, we are making books for the end of the year. Last summer, I shot a body of work in Nepal, and I wanted to see it as a book. However, I don't have the knowledge of bookmaking, so this is perfect for me. I have learned a lot more about proper scanning and color correcting in the scanner, so I am currently in the process of rescanning all my Nepal negatives. I'm 14 out 17 contact sheets in, and I have spent countless hours in the lab doing so.