A passage home

Create a series of no less than 20 images articulating a loose narrative about a walk. I suggested it would be a walk home from school but it can be any location.

Try to ‘capture’ what you see as you walk: from landscape vistas to small details. Select your images so that when you see them they refer you back to the walk. That will be the best way to convey to us your experience.

61 thoughts on “A passage home”

    3. I really enjoy that you used black and white and the high contrast in the images, it caused me to see these buildings I see normally in a different manner than usual.

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    4. I also like the way the images create a continuity. We are taken in a stroll through campus. I am not sure about your choice of b/w though. We’ll talk more next time!

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    1. Harris, these are nice images. What I feel missing is more variety in the gaze. Except for a couple of shots you seem to always look far ahead not paying any attention to what is closer to you. The result is a bit too uniform

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  4. I chose a walk through campus at night as my subject. Because I live at wesbrook and 16th, I frequently walk across campus when it’s deserted, whether coming from the bus, the apartment of a friend in Ponderosa or beside Gage, or simply to clear my mind.
    There is an incredible stillness to campus at night that I find extremely incongruous with the business of the day, and I was perhaps too focused on that and not enough on constructing a narrative.
    All of these images where shot between 2-5 AM on Friday night (Saturday morning) with a 55mm f/1.2 Nikon lens. For many shots I would have preferred a wider or narrower view, but the constraints of lighting forced the choice.
    The path was a loose circuit from the roundabout at 16th across the fields towards west mall, then up around from behind Buchanan, to the village, and then a return to main mall by passing the bookstore. This is a rough linkage of several routes I walk frequently at a time where many people don’t ever see them. It was also interesting because I walk a lot for utilitarian purposes on these routes, but this was a walk simply to examine, with no goal except to pass some hours and have the chance of seeing a side of campus that I always find beautifully still.

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    1. Hi Patrick, I’m not sure how to put it… but your pictures have its own temperature for each photo. I think I can vividly feel the weather and time of day when you took each picture. your images seem to be alive.

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    2. I like your use of black and white here at night; it really captures the atmosphere and mood of the silence of night. As well, I like how the other images focus on one or two colours to draw in the attention of the viewer.

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    3. I wonder why some images are in b/w? Some of the most beautiful shots here rely a lot on the color (I particularly like the steam at night)
      I also like the compositions and the stress on geometrical forms.

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    1. I like colours in your images. I see you usually don’t miss a detail of things when you walk with a camera. Beautiful! I like the images of ubc architectures. I found myself it is even harder to take a nice picture of something very general, something always there that everyone can see like buildings or natures. I think you have a good eye to see these ordinary things to make them look special.

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      1. I agree with you, the photos with the bright pops of colour are quite eye-catching. I also like the ones where she’s chosen a subject and really focussed on it, it captures your attention to it more than one normally would.

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    2. I like the variety that your images offer, with inanimate objects, nature, animals, and people. There is a nice range of close up and distance shots.

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    3. Sonali, I find it hard to weave the images together. They work individually and at times some sequences emerge, but I would pay more attention to how one leads to the next. This can happen in many ways: as a continuity or a rupture, but they should give an altogether sense of unity that here is present only in certain moments and then disappear. We’ll talk more in class about it.

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    1. The most successful images are those wit ha more formalistic approach: your use of light, lines, create very beautiful and suggestive abstractions. The ones with people have a very different dynamics and seem out of place in the series. IM 5054 is my favorite

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    1. Yoon you have a very interesting way of looking. There are several series in this group, each one of them with their own style, focus and intentions. In class I would like to talk about the bench experiments, but for now I mention that my favorites are the blurred ones: whether color or b/w ( I prefer color) they are all very suggestive. I recommend keep exploring that direction.

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    1. Hi Laura, are you waiting for spring? I see kind of the last moments of winter and the beginning of spring through your images. I would like to paint some of your images. Strong and somewhat erotic too.

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    2. I really enjoy the natural elements that you’ve focussed on. It makes me notice some of the patterns nature creates and there’s something that almost transforms them from natural to this mechanical rhythm of shapes and forms.

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    3. I agree with Yoon: some of the images are very sensual. There are several directions: the ones with the trees and leaves, the fountain, others with people. I would suggest to explore more the ones in which lines and color create that attraction. Push it and see how long can you go in that direction.

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    1. Hi Mark, I somehow found the aesthetic value of traditional Asian paintings in some of your images. (from the building project too) Do you happen to be familiar with old Chinese (or Korean / Japanese) paintings?

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    2. I really like the theme of lines shown here. Many of your images are quite evocative, especially the misty tree and the syringes in the tree trunk. Simple yet compelling me to take a second look.

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    2. I the series as a whole: the attention to lines, shapes and patterns; the texture in the grass and the bike shot. The final image is a nice final touch.
      Consider a more intense use of color, even if you have to manipulate it.

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    1. I really enjoy the way you’ve used the lighting on your walk. It captures all these interesting shadows and reflections.

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    2. I like feeling like I am actually walking and looking guided by you. I would put more attention to how to transition from an open view to close up details.

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      1. I like your approach but I would try to work on more variations: taking advantage of the grounds (concrete, grass, leaves, lines, color, etc) offer many interesting possibilities

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    1. Adrian, I like the use of light and composition. I would pay more attention to the continuity of your ‘narration’, paying attention to the order of the images in the sequence.

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    1. I like the symmetry and image framing that you offer here, the images are very pleasing to look at. I also really like the detailed focus on textures and colours and patterns.

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    1. many shots work on their own, but feel isolated in the group. The combination of color and b/w also creates breaks in the flow. I wold have focused on variations around the moon- it would be a great way to challenge yourself and create a nice series!

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    1. I like the approach (I am thinking of the two posts as a continuous project). The images are very concise and use of b/w is very balanced. Wonder if you could expand this last part of the sequence, complicate it with other elements; perhaps a dialogue between signs around?

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      1. You can work more with light/exposure, to create images with a ‘denser’ feeling. Be aware of the balance between open views and close ups. I like the idea of the cat sequence at the end but it takes too much weight in the group.

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