ART

In your final step, you will execute your chosen theme in the form of a 10-15 shot photo essay.  Your photos may be taken with any type of camera (from an analog device to a cell phone camera), but you need to make sure that your images are large enough to see.  Throughout the course of the project you may have taken many photographs, but the purpose of a photo essay is to tell a short story or express a big idea through images.  The each of the images you choose should be essential to the communication of the theme or telling of the story you have decided to explore.  To help you tell your story, include a caption with each photo, no more than one sentence in length.Those images must be ordered in a way that is most effective to the presentation of your idea.  Remember this when you upload your work.  If you would like more guidance, feel free to check out the following resources:

Digital Photography School (Links to an external site.)

Photo Philanthropy (Links to an external site.)

National Geographic (Links to an external site.)

The Digital Trekker (Links to an external site.)

CUNY (Links to an external site.)

With your photo essay, you must include a one-page (double spaced) artist's statement, explaining your project.  While this may be in free form prose, I would like you to provide the following information:  How did you develop your theme? (In other words, what was your though process? Why did you find this approach compelling/important?)  How does your theme personally interpret the larger prompt: "Art in its Natural Habitat?"  How does your essay execute this?  (Give a couple of examples.)  And finally, how did this project change, develop, or reaffirm your definition of art?  (Reflect on the first step of the project.)  

While a well-taken photograph is an asset to any photo essay, you will not be graded on you talent with a camera.  Rather your grade will be based on your ability to develop your idea, choose your shots, and construct a compelling story with photographs--not necessarily a story with compelling photographs.