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Maeve Mortimer
Bachelor of Arts (photography) Shadow Play 2018 [email protected] This image was captures in rural northern Victoria, some 6 hours north Melbourne’s CBD and was taken in response to the intervention/ interaction landscape visual exercise. The photo ultimately serves as a critique on tourist culture and the common desire to include ourselves in every site and famous monument we visit, to post on Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat etc. Just to prove that we have been there. The banality of the setting I have captured was used for irony, while my shadow represents the universality of the scene, meaning it could be anyone. |
Joe Ziolkowski
Assistant Professor of Photography & Art, SUNY Genesee Community College
Yellow Daffodil Project 2018
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The Yellow Daffodil Project is an ongoing project that has spanned for over 15 years. Every fall I interact with the local landscape and plant a bag of Yellow Daffodils in memoriam to my mother. She loved the sight of these early spring flowers and it reminded her that she prevailed yet another winter. Since her passing the spring flowers reminder me of her zest for life. As the self-portrait artist, I select the vantage point and compose the frame, making my lens the viewers’ eye. As subject, I place myself within the frame and guide the viewer through the frame with my own gaze. Within this gaze, I join the viewer, experiencing the joy of gazing myself. This effort serves as a performance component both within and around the final photographs themselves.
Assistant Professor of Photography & Art, SUNY Genesee Community College
Yellow Daffodil Project 2018
[email protected]
The Yellow Daffodil Project is an ongoing project that has spanned for over 15 years. Every fall I interact with the local landscape and plant a bag of Yellow Daffodils in memoriam to my mother. She loved the sight of these early spring flowers and it reminded her that she prevailed yet another winter. Since her passing the spring flowers reminder me of her zest for life. As the self-portrait artist, I select the vantage point and compose the frame, making my lens the viewers’ eye. As subject, I place myself within the frame and guide the viewer through the frame with my own gaze. Within this gaze, I join the viewer, experiencing the joy of gazing myself. This effort serves as a performance component both within and around the final photographs themselves.
Joel Glover
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Photography) Appropriated Landscape 2018 [email protected] It is particularly egregious when indigenous art and landscape are appropriated for commercial or reputational gain without any acknowledgement of the original creator of the work or indigenous peoples of the utilised landscape. The exhibition advertisement implies an aboriginal mourning or totemic art form, but the exhibition itself has nothing to do with these forms. The ads are a trick to get people to view the artists’ site installation and click up numbers of visitors who may be curious about the work. It is important to be critical in the fields of art and photography so that artists, and the public, recognise the significance of cultural and historic sites before creating works in them. Contemporary cultural conditions can only be improved by more critical thought and research about situations such this installation. |
Kara Schroeder
Genesee Community College, Pho 105-01 Silencing Nature Nature is one of the most amazing and unique things that we as humans to this day do not fully understand. We understand that there is a circle of life, we understand that what we do affects the wildlife in the area, we understand that we as a species destroy anything in our paths in order to make more profit. We see the damage that we are doing to this world little by little, and yet we make a very minimal effort to change our ways. We throw garbage out of car windows, we leave abandoned buildings to decay, we dump chemicals and oil into our oceans. Eventually, we will silence nature, unless it silences us first. |
Portia Sarris
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Photography)
A Tree is a Home, 2018
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A Tree is a Home was created as a response to me being drawn to dead trees found within the Australian Landscape that stood and held a presence. I found myself intrigued by the way they held themselves, and reminded me like building, you are drawn to it. I started to consider trees in an alternate way, realising the importance they hold in both providing a home to fauna of the land, and providing materials to the homes that humans build. The similarity of characteristics within a home and tree kept becoming apparent the more I considered it, everything from the branches acting as a roof to provide shelter, to the plumbing and pipes in a house and the roots in a tree, transporting water to all regions of the body. Like a tree, a home contains life. Consistently growing, exposed to the elements, welcoming the bodies that depend on the complex structure for shelter and a space to come back to, a tree is a home.
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Photography)
A Tree is a Home, 2018
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A Tree is a Home was created as a response to me being drawn to dead trees found within the Australian Landscape that stood and held a presence. I found myself intrigued by the way they held themselves, and reminded me like building, you are drawn to it. I started to consider trees in an alternate way, realising the importance they hold in both providing a home to fauna of the land, and providing materials to the homes that humans build. The similarity of characteristics within a home and tree kept becoming apparent the more I considered it, everything from the branches acting as a roof to provide shelter, to the plumbing and pipes in a house and the roots in a tree, transporting water to all regions of the body. Like a tree, a home contains life. Consistently growing, exposed to the elements, welcoming the bodies that depend on the complex structure for shelter and a space to come back to, a tree is a home.
Scott Williams
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Photography) Hidden Structures, 2017 [email protected] This image documents the prevalence of industrial areas and the ways in which they intervene both upon the confounds of Melbourne’s modern cityscape and on the landscape as a whole. |
Miranda Schiller
Genesee Community College: PHO 105-01 Skyline, 2018 Instead of a forest of trees, the landscape of my life is surrounded by a forest of buildings. Processing plants like this one are a fixture of almost every town in this region. In many ways, this artificial view has become natural to us who see it every day. Human intervention has shaped the land in an indelible way, changing how we define the concept of landscape. Pure, untouched places no longer exist in many parts of the world. Telephone lines crisscross the sky and rusting steel structures take the place of rock formations and trees. |
Rohan F. Saric-Skewes
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Photography)
The Irony Toilet, 2018
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Sitting lonely,
Confined by vastness,
Sheltered by hefty resilience,
An Iron toilet lay.
However,
The irony lay,
In it’s exteriors,
Ecological dismay.
Corrugated Iron; a modern day luxury of the developed world, that is derived from elements of the earth. The Irony Toilet intervenes ones view of the landscape as an entirely natural space, preventing our ability to maintain a distanced gaze.
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Photography)
The Irony Toilet, 2018
[email protected]
Sitting lonely,
Confined by vastness,
Sheltered by hefty resilience,
An Iron toilet lay.
However,
The irony lay,
In it’s exteriors,
Ecological dismay.
Corrugated Iron; a modern day luxury of the developed world, that is derived from elements of the earth. The Irony Toilet intervenes ones view of the landscape as an entirely natural space, preventing our ability to maintain a distanced gaze.
Alexander McGregor
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Photography) Developmental Destruction, 2018 [email protected] This photograph was created to show the idea and theory of intervention in the landscape and the impact of urban development and sprawl. Society and culture has continued to mediate the landscape, especially in a rapidly growing area on the fringes of Melbourne. Humankind has often had to intervene with the natural elements and obscurities the landscape poses, I decided to shift focus to observe the more obscure details of such a cluttered, busy and aesthetically unpleasing environment. The constant levelling and clearing of land, earthmoving equipment roaring busily in the background, neighbourhoods placed over what once was a natural space, one void of such structural, rigid and manmade intervention. |
Curtis Kreutter
Genesee Community College, PHO 105-01 Undeviating Moving ahead, making progress, finding answers. It's something everyone strives for, yet we listen to people who tell us to take no risks and stay in out comfort zone. They give us their own "key" but, they don't fit in our own door. Every person has their own key that can only open their own door. So we go out to find our key and along the way we are taught different ideas and inspired by different people that breed our own creativity. We keep moving along our path looking for answers without realizing we have had the answer all along. This city has been the answer. Free thinking minds collaborate here, we enjoy each other's presence here, we find new ideas simply by just observing the town. Here we are on a constant path towards new discoveries. |
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Bek Ludlow & Andy Tran
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Photography) Natures Dominance, 2018 [email protected] This image captures the way in which nature and man made structures interact. Through capturing residential areas where green dominates the frame this exposes the idea of nature being ever present in our lives. Natures dominance can never be diminished fully as it posses the ability to overtake obstacles in its path. All around us we are surrounded by structures and man made elements which aim to clear out the land in order for human use although through these images it is clear that nature will always assert is presence. |
Karolina Elliott
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Photography) Branches, 2018 [email protected] This image depicts the contrast between sharp barbed wire and the beauty of nature. It conveys how humans have constructed boundaries and worked to fence off property and also to attempt to contain nature. The leaves peak out through the barbed wire fencing, thus portraying the power of nature and humans inability to always control and contain it. Furthermore this image highlights the juxtaposition between human made items and the natural landscape. |
Eadie Fuerch
Genesee Community College, PHO 105-01 Frozen in Time It’s funny how a change in temperature can have such a big effect on the feeling of time. After a big snowstorm, frost was left sticking to the trees, the snow was pure white and left untouched, and soft clouds covered the sky. Dusk was on its way, bringing an end to the day’s activities and leaving it isolated and inanimate. With the lack of any wind, the water was still, allowing perfect, clean reflections of white frosted trees. Everything was completely motionless. Time seemed to come to a stop. No sounds, no movement, no sunshine. It was frozen. Frozen in time. |
Lucas Cook
Genesee Community College, Pho 105-01 Thaw, 2018 [email protected],edu It was finally sunny out and I was excited. Taken on the last day of Spring Break, I was fed up with the seemingly continuous cycle of gloomy days and snow showers. So, I made the most of the rare early Spring sunny day. Although, my time on my Spring Break had nearly run dry just like the frozen elements whose current state wouldn’t last much longer. My laid back state at the time wouldn’t last much longer either, as the relaxed days of Spring Break were gone. As I’m writing this, the semester is coming to a chaotic close and after this wave of academically induced stress clears, I’m looking forward to letting this hectic life thaw out and relaxing once again. |
Jack Cannon
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Photography) Recycle, 2018 [email protected] This piece was created in response to negative interactions with our surroundings; I aimed to intervene in the waste cycle, creating organic shapes from synthetic objects. This photogram is a contact print of a mesh bag found on the streets of Melbourne, Australia; using the cyanotype process I was thinking of the history of the medium, used widely for botanical studies and how this method could respond to a contemporary issue such as littering. |
Gerard A. Geuss, Jr.
Genesee Community College, Pho 105-01
Stone Cottage, Sherborn, MA, 2018
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I suspect the most direct intervention and/or interaction any of us ever have is finding some way to keep our environment at bay. We build shelter. Perhaps nothing is greater testimony to man’s impact on the planet than this. That task takes our time and mind as art and craft. For good or bad, then, our impact outlasts our years. We hope for the best. Seems to me it’s just that simple....and complex.
Genesee Community College, Pho 105-01
Stone Cottage, Sherborn, MA, 2018
[email protected]
I suspect the most direct intervention and/or interaction any of us ever have is finding some way to keep our environment at bay. We build shelter. Perhaps nothing is greater testimony to man’s impact on the planet than this. That task takes our time and mind as art and craft. For good or bad, then, our impact outlasts our years. We hope for the best. Seems to me it’s just that simple....and complex.
Bailey DeLelys
Genesee Community College, Pho 105-01
Ooo Ah… The Giant Water Hole
Email: [email protected] baileydelelysphotography.com
Niagara Falls are impressive in their own right but, it’s even crazier how many people that they attract. I visited in early April when it was still very cold out, making it almost a chore to just visit the falls. Over the years the falls have sparked large urban growth. A once untouched and tranquil environment has become cluttered and sort of unappealing. The actual falls have not been changed too much by humans but, everything else is an urban mess that I feel takes away so much from this natural beauty. Hotels, industrial parks, cheesy exhibits, tourist buses, and casinos have taken so much away from this beauty for me.
Genesee Community College, Pho 105-01
Ooo Ah… The Giant Water Hole
Email: [email protected] baileydelelysphotography.com
Niagara Falls are impressive in their own right but, it’s even crazier how many people that they attract. I visited in early April when it was still very cold out, making it almost a chore to just visit the falls. Over the years the falls have sparked large urban growth. A once untouched and tranquil environment has become cluttered and sort of unappealing. The actual falls have not been changed too much by humans but, everything else is an urban mess that I feel takes away so much from this natural beauty. Hotels, industrial parks, cheesy exhibits, tourist buses, and casinos have taken so much away from this beauty for me.
Josie Wilson
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Photography) Cactus Home, 2018 [email protected] This photograph explores human intervention with the natural environment. It represents the destruction of manmade environments by nature fighting back to restore what it once was. The image illustrates a level of undesirability and loss proving human nature’s ability to expand and move forward to bigger tasks, forgetting what was once important in the process. Nature has been around for a lot longer and although it has been destroyed by human intervention it has a simple aim of growth and rebirth. |
Thomas K Lee
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Photography) Be against nature, 2018 [email protected] My work emerges from my desire to interpret and translate the sense of nature, not just the beauty of that single moment. My photography captures the nature that surrounds me and this is how I see it. |
Anton Jadrijevic
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Photography)
Underbool | Walpeup, diptych, 2018
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Landscape photography to me, is all about human activity within the landscape. It is all about how we use and alter landscape for our comfort or profit. As globalisation reaches its peaks of irreversible, the world is changing rapidly. Due to those fast changes it is hard to follow, it is hard to pause just for a moment and live presently, here and now. Through my imagery, I would like to pause the world for a second or two and depict stillness just photographing ordinary, everyday man-made objects juxtaposed with nature.
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Photography)
Underbool | Walpeup, diptych, 2018
[email protected]
Landscape photography to me, is all about human activity within the landscape. It is all about how we use and alter landscape for our comfort or profit. As globalisation reaches its peaks of irreversible, the world is changing rapidly. Due to those fast changes it is hard to follow, it is hard to pause just for a moment and live presently, here and now. Through my imagery, I would like to pause the world for a second or two and depict stillness just photographing ordinary, everyday man-made objects juxtaposed with nature.
Shannon Ogrizek
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Photography) Burnt out, 2018 [email protected] This image was created for the interaction intervention task - For this image I wanted to explore the wombat state forest - located near wooded and Blackwood. I saw the location and thought it would be a really great place to explore and spend some time there taking some images. The burnt forest really gives the image a different perspective and look on the “australian forest” images, this area of the forest in particular has been burnt down to the ground in order to maintain a safe zone for people in area where bushfires are prominent to happen. I explored the idea of human interaction with this landscape and how the humans have intervened with a natural habitat and a living organism for their own safety, I like how it isn’t a natural disaster in this case but more of a human interference. |
Kasey Edgerton
Genesee Community College, Pho 105-01 Reciprocity, 2018 [email protected] The fields and forests of my home town have given me so much. They have been both playground and sanctuary, offering me a sense of calm and comfort I have seldom found elsewhere. So now, ravaged by months of winter and neglect, I seek to give back. May luscious flowers spring up from these humble handmade seedbombs, ripe with the potential to bring new joy and solace. |
RMIT Bachelor of Arts (Photography) - Landscape Studio
in collaboration with
State University of New York, Genesee Community College - Photo 105.
Co-curated by: RMIT Curatorial Collective
in collaboration with
State University of New York, Genesee Community College - Photo 105.
Co-curated by: RMIT Curatorial Collective