I took a bunch of pictures at the pep rally today, mostly got nothing, but I thought this was an interesting composition, how the girl looks over the crowd like a hawk, vision, really. Thats what its about. Something powerful in moments like this, which I am not usually used to seeing in houses of the dead. A good chance to play with composition outside in an uncontroled atmosphere. Felt much more like searching than creating to capture than I am used to. Weve been looking at a lot of documentary phtographers in class lately, Larry Clark, Dijkstra, Ballen, Curtis... A good aesthetic, documentary; clean, removed, almost sterile. But then you have moments like this. Full of color and timing, awkwardness and envy, form and repetition. I am reminded of Tim Robins, my advanced art history teacher constantly saying, "The Gaze"; emphatically.
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