Hello I’m Preston Tyson, I am writing an artist statement about my work in photography class. My work is more of a simple yet effective approach rather than complex, I don’t really like complex photos it makes it seem hard to comprehend. Media arts helped me how to take picture correctly and I liked it. Now that I’m done with the beginning media arts I feel like I can call myself a photographer because of taking this class. I can connect to other artists now that I have the knowledge of a photographer.
I had paid homage to the photographer named Minor white, who took pictures of landscapes and some of people. I chose him because I felt like my photography could be close to his in a way that is simple yet effective. The type of photos he took seem to enlighten me having to spark something within me that when I take photos I should think like my photographer I chose, as like he was tutor to me. Along with paying homage to a photographer we also had to mix our photos with the pictures of the photographer we chosen, it was basically copy and paste then blend the photo to the other photo.
Typography as next as a new project of creating photos with words in them as like an advertisement. I think typography was kind of easy for the fact that it was blending words with photos in a unique way making a whole new picture. My approach to typography was kind of weak only because I didn’t have enough pictures to make a different typographic picture. However I did enjoy it because I wanted to make something unique out of the pictures I had.
I think my work in this photography class has a somewhat amateur approach but I’m still working on that, it needs a more complexity to my photos to make them seem more interesting. Working with Photoshop helped my photos have an interesting look in them. I do hope I people appreciate my photos I’ve taken.
