Photo Series: Interaction and Signage

Photography and Photo Editing / Document Design

Project Overview

Challenge: During the five weeks I spent studying photography in England and France, I had the opportunity to look at the cities, people, project and medium through eyes that were trained to look at user experience and the ways we interact with our surroundings.

Team: While this was a solo project, my professor, Peter Glendinning and five other students frequently critiqued each other's work and offered suggestions for improvement.

My Role: Photography, exploration, photo editing, document design, exhibit design

Technologies Used: Canon T3i DSLR camera, Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe InDesign CC, Adobe Bridge CC

After spending time exploring the cities I was in and capturing countless scenes, I curated and edited my photos into the digital images that can be viewed below. When thinking about how to show them, it seemed only natural to encourage the type of interaction I had been photographing through the design of the gallery exhibit. I wrote an artist's statement to accompany the exhibit.

The Project

Digital Images

Here are 18 images I chose to feature in my series. Each attempts to show the strange, interesting, quirky juxtapositions that you might just happen to see in a fleeting moment.

Encouraging Interaction in the Exhibit

I wanted to incorporate my outsider’s perspective, my interest in print design, and a little of my own sense of humor. That’s why I chose to display my photographs as postcards, both large and meant to be flipped through and small and meant to be browsed or taken. I wanted my project to be experienced; a reflection of how I often felt experiencing these new environments.

Eight by ten inch images stick out from the wall, able to be flipped through and experienced. A rotating postcard rack sits on a stand nearby, holding small versions of the same postcards. — Postcards in the exhibition to be browsed, held and taken.

Artist's Statement: Interaction and Signage

From any angle, you can see people and objects interacting within a space. For me, the five weeks I was abroad were spent exploring and understanding a space that was foreign to me. To look at things from the outside provided a unique perspective to notice the interactions occurring between people, objects and the environment.

There are countless little moments when you look at something just right and the completely mundane becomes a scene worth laughing at or remembering. Often these moments are fleeting and captured in the blink of an eye; this project is an effort to instead capture them with the clicking of a shutter.