Extended Image

Since the beginning of this semester, my roommate, Joey Diaz, has been working on his extended image project. Extended Image is a class, where students go through the process of setting up a show/gallery, and then creating the art to go in it. The art is supposed to be photography outside of the standard print and frame, hence the name. Thinking outside of the box, students had a lot of different projects set up.

One guy had weird looking statues in a small room, and handed out flashlights. When you aimed the flashlight at a statue, the shadow of a human figure appeared. Joey's project was a series of short videos. He brought an artist in our living room studio to paint with water, and then drop ink on the water. The effect was a really cool spread of the ink through the water to create imagery. The video was about water deficiencies in different countries, and what organization you could contact to help. (This inspired my Advertizing and Imagery final project's subject [water].)

I think that this was a really good experience for the students, because they had to set everything up, including everything about scouting and acquiring a location, setting everything up, and producing content to fill it with. It was a very practical real world experience, combined with delivering a product that forces photography majors to think outside of the box.





[Right] A picture I took of Joey's father watching his presentation. [Left] A photo that I took of Joey and his friends, who visited from VA.