Portfolio Proposal - Christopher Lee Fatt

Florida is an area with a lot of diversity in its landscape and architecture. Although there is a very unique "feel" to the Florida landscape, there is one thing that is not different across the country: the indifference of people. When ever I walk through downtown (here in Gainesville or my native city of Orlando) I tend to notice a beggar on the street with a sign or a woman crying. Despite overt emotions, the beggar is the only one who openly displays what he feels - what he needs. But even so, people still ignore. Maybe it isn't indifference, but something must be said about the mass apathy that's plaguing this country, not just Florida. That's what I want my pictures to illustrate. The pictures I am showing are of homeless, but what I want to do is have ordinary people with their emotions displayed on a sign like that of the homeless, but still show people walking by displaying their indifference.

Gage Caudell

Steven Huff (1)

Steven Huff (2)

Portfolio Proposal

When people think of Florida or Florida architecture, they tend to automatically think of beaches and the stereotypical beach towns. They never really see how varied the architecture is in Florida, and how the majority of it doesn't even seem to belong to this state. And yet each different style of building or structure has it's own unique personality of sorts. My goal is to portray the varied architecture of Florida that doesn't really look like it belongs here, but really just adds to the great diversity of this state. My goal is to do this with a strong emphasis often on line and symmetry, as is typically depicted in the work of the photographers I was greatly influenced by.

J Collingridge

Cameron R Neilson

Fabrice Fouillet

Nature and Motion

I have always had the notion to photograph nature as I am on my travels anywhere. Wether it be from home to school, school to work, or home to another country. Although one would think I have a stationary and static view because Ive lived in one place my whole life (Miami,FL), my view is quite the opposite. My Florida story is always in motion and always on the way to somewhere else. it has everything to do with the travel and the journey. Due to this impulse, my portfolio idea is to capture nature and motion. Taking photos of the nature that catches my eye while on my way to places. Showing Florida's nature through my eyes, on my journeys, travels, and motions.
(I think I want to split my chapters in to groups, motion, nature, and motion in nature).

Inspirations:

Nan Goldins photos are a huge inspiration to me because of the very intimate and spontaneous nature of her pictures, even those that aren't specifically of nature or in motion. These 3 photos by her are very related to the aesthetic I want for my photos. For example in the two pictures, Sunset on the Train, it is obvious that she is on her way somewhere and capturing along the journey. In this particular picture she captures the outside nature through the view of the movement of the vehicle she's in. I want to capture nature in this same way to convey a journey or someone on the road or a travel somewhere.

Pipilotti Rist is another inspiration of mine for her photography and video installations. I love the way she presents nature and the human body in its natural form and in such a vibrant and distinct way. The way she portrays the human body is something I'd like to incorporate in to my portfolio because to me the human body is also a form of nature. Id like to capture the two together. Thats why I don't want to just say nature in motion. Because id also like to incorporate other things that I consider nature and the motion in them. (The natural in nature)

One of my last inspirations are two photographers who work together that aren't very well known. They run a website named Wiisa. Vanessa Hollander & Wilson Philippe.

Im really inspired by the spontaneity, the impact, and the scenery. Each photo is very impactful and you can imagine yourself in the scenery, I imagine the way the waves and the people move. That is an element I aim for in my photos.

Final Portfolio Idea- McKenzie Johnson

Growing up outside of the state of Florida within my most critical years as a child I was susceptible to more information and opinions of the state of Louisiana. Never having had previously even visited the state of Florida before we got into a car and moved here in the middle of a hurricane that we had also never experienced were both adventures to me. Now as we move further into adult hood my once vivid spark of hope for living here and being happy has faded and been replaced with a need to leave and get out. My idea is to characterize parallels in the social norms of both Louisiana and Florida and put them into photos that stand as comments on satire and borderline political statements.

Child Smoking by Sally Mann

Jessie at age 12 by Sally Mann

Frieka Janssens

The Last Super II- Jes C. 

Final Portfolio idea 2/1

Since I grew up in Florida, it is really all I have ever known. For my portfolio, I wanted to express how my view of the world changed, as I got older. It will be about expansion, represented through small spaces, which will gradually grow throughout the portfolio. Each space has its own “sanctity.” As I take the pictures, I try to see things through how I would have seen them growing up. A level of fear and curiosity for the world underlies each photo. I plan on capturing a mixture of nature and urban settings. All of the three visual inspirations show a gradual expansion and represent the scary and beautiful, which I aim to capture in my portfolio.

Crystal Marine 

Yassine Hakimi 

Robert Patterson 

Final Project Proposal

Sean Murphy, Forty-Something Days With a Bunch of Kids. 2014

Dorothea Lange, July 1939. Gordonton, N.C. 1939

Robert Yager, L.A. Gang Gun Baby. 1991

I'd like my final portfolio to center on rural life in Florida, and the gun culture that comes along with it in some areas (particularly in the area I grew up). I like the humanization that rural subject matter tends to bring out, and I think Dorothea Lange's work is an excellent example of the sort of organic poses, settings, and timings that I'd like to achieve. However, I'd like to avoid glorifying any sort of weaponization, and instead present it in a more documentary style.

Final Project Idea with 3 visual inspirations

My final project idea is the concept of "nowhere". Nowhere as in "middle of nowhere" or things going nowhere such as a car with no gas. I plan on taking photos of places that give the sense that your in the middle of no where and things/objects that are going no where. But mostly places in the middle of no where and places that give the sense that your in the middle of no where. Now for my three visual inspirations.

Claudio Moser "Nothing to Do Nowhere to Go, 2012"

 Sarah Brooke "Middle of Nowhere Painting"

James R Ford "Road to Nowhere"