Da Ying

Because we all came relatively unequipped with props or costumes to the first shoot of our flash photography project, we were forced to overcome some camera-shyness without material cues. After designating roles (model, lighting director, photographer), we played charades and told childhood stories instead of engaging in any overt directing. This strategy definitely created relaxed [...]

I think that the Sibley flash photography shooting was the perfect project to end the flash photography session. I never expected the photos to come out so well. Some of my favorite pictures resembled photos of film sets. The dramatic lighting and the drapes were the causes of that. Actually, I felt that the whole [...]

On the first day of shooting, I brought wooden blocks that I had previously cut into interesting designs. I arranged them some distance apart, totem pole style. The resulting photographs reminded me of desolate rock formations in the Nevada Desert. Kwame then surrounded them with thick metal wires. With a few tweaking that involved stacking [...]

FINAL IMAGES PROJECT We began with ideas of complex architectural designs and people working in a machine-like space. The theme then moved to the construction of an extreme environment that would not exist in real life. We wanted to move away from the organic to a more rigid and strict composition. On the first day [...]