Honors Project Artist Statement

I started to love photography and camera when I was in high school, so I had many experiences with diverse types of cameras. However, I did not have a good skill of photograph. I tried several years, I could have a skill, but I did not think I had enough ability to take pictures. Suddenly, I fall in love with analog, so I printed out all my pictures because I did not want to keep my pictures in a digital album. Also, I bought some old stuff, and my final step was a film camera. My first roll of film was horrible, but I was getting better. I thought that film and light cannot go together, so I wanted to combine them. I tried several times, so I threw away many film rolls. However, I found out that they can be friends, and film and light became my honors project concept. 

 My honors project has six main pictures and three motivation pictures. My motivation pictures are taken by me because they were test pictures for the honors project. I took them in late 2019 and early 2020 in the United States. My honors project pictures are film photographs. In honors project pictures, Light and restriction, Light and sunset, Light and light are color film, and Light and leaves, Light and décalcomanie, Light and tree are black and white film. In my motivation pictures, The bird and Lamp_c are color film, and Lamp_r is a color film, it is edited in black and white. 

I focus on the sunlight in the honors project because after developing the light, a human does not need the natural light anymore, so I want to combine two things that have been forgotten in nowadays by technological advances.