Dedicate a page that has a minimum of 6 (original) images of yours (from the past two weeks). Please feel free to upload more, in fact you are welcome to create one gallery that has only 6 images which you consider your strongest and a second gallery of things you debated on or didn’t choose. (remember strong isn’t always “I like”)
This is your first post that shows the work you’ve done these past few weeks and simultaneously gives insight into your selection process (be it when you are photographing or curating). Remember, the title of this project is “evidence,” and we’ve spoken a bit about how one might interpret this, as well as seen examples of such work. For this post you need to compose a selection of images that you understand as evidence of/to…X.
Please don’t censor yourself, and add as many works as possible. The more work you add, the stronger and more accurate feedback you can receive from me and from your peers in critique.
You are required to reflect on your work as you did in Post X, it is up to you how much or little your write, but I do ask that you take an hour to sit with your work, look at it, and reflect on your choices. In film photography we must slow down and observe our work, in digital photography that is a step we can easily skip. The reflection process is integral to you creating stronger and more informed work.At minimum spend an hour looking at the images you believe are compelling and/or not compelling and describe the compositional reasons for your position. It is important that you focus on what is in the image and work on cultivating interpretations and decisions based on what is visually there. While I don’t specify a minimum I can state for certain that if you have written less than 500 words, you likely haven’t looked at your work long enough.
At this stage I do ask that your writing not be edited or finessed. Firstly, this will slow down your analytic process significantly and secondly this is liable to impede your reading of your work and of aspects intuitively present in your work. Hence, please continue to adopt a “free writing” methodology when analyzing your work. Do not worry about clean sentences or even about flow. You can write in bullet points or jump from one thought to the next, I do ask that everything be grounded in the works themselves. That is,do not analyze work that you are not looking at!
This is my favorite. I love the colors, the Bison, and I tried a few times to get the angle just right. Getting that sense of glancing up and ‘the corner of your eye’.
I love the little things that people put in their windows. Especially in big cities, it’s like a little glance into the world of a stranger. I carry the same associations of something/someone in the window as I do a dog poking its head out from under the fence to look at you; or chairs, games and drinks set up in a front yard or porch. Maybe, I suppose, a sense of “proof of life”, or “a human was here”. Of course this is a painted window and doesn’t represent any one person in particular, but I think does maybe represent a greater Boulder community. The yellow really makes the Buffalo (its a Bison) shine and I like that too. It feels like it captures Boulder, or CU, or The Hill itself shining.
Our first true snow of 2026 🙂
This storm was interesting too! It happened in the middle of a drought that has been quite a significant factor in our Colorado winter so far this year. This winter storm, Saturday, Jan. 24th, seemingly swept the entire country. West to East coast. Either way I am glad. Our drought winter has been depressing thus far.
This one made me laugh. I spent quite a few shots trying to get the composition of the shot just right. Getting the “MICROWAVE LASERED NUTRITION…” sign in full but also capturing enough context and its surroundings to properly frame it, both in a literal and figurative sense. There’s something about the posters and fliers in the margins and the contrast of the “MICROWAVE LASERED NUTRITION…” sign featured of course in the center. Though there is a throughline of authenticity amongst all of these posters, a human putting something out to the greater public because they want them to see, or participate or know. The point of advertisement of course. Which makes me wonder what exactly even is authentic about something so nonsense as the “MICROWAVE LASERED NUTRITION…” sign. Light is still shed on topics of public conditioning, numbness, normalization, etc. and is not quite blotted out by the narrowness of a schitzo-rambling street poster.
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This photo is technically weak, but I think captures a lot of what “evidence” means to me. My roommates, neighbors, and fellow community members are pretty upset and put off by the Nazi activism in our area. This photo is proof of a “war” being fought between our local anti-fascist chapter in Boulder, and neo-Nazi “activism” in our area. You can see behind the 3 posters is a defaced racist poster hung up right outside our community park, by neo-Nazi Nathanlel Ellis, or, presumably an associate. Likely correlated with the shitbox hyundai with racist slogans spray painted on its doors, hood, trunk, etc.; that drives through our neighborhood on protest weekends and yells vulgarities and slurs at regular normal people (including children and families) walking by and enjoying their day.
These “people” (neo-Nazi’s) are weak and cowardly. Drive-by’s at protests, quite literally too scared to get out of their car, covering their faces, and blacking out the material that accounts the real things that they do, have done, or want to do. Nazi’s are pathetic, not normal, and not welcome. They are hateful, unadjusted, and unreasonable. This is evidence of a freak.
College vibes. I found this scene while walking, loved it, took a photo. I also love the Olympics and there’s something to say about that as well but I can’t put my finger on it. I think this photo is just representative of ‘the happenings’(?) of a lot of things I love.
Friends, a cold beer, sitting on the porch, Olympics season…
This one is only edited on the sign (FDC, idk what that means). I wanted it to say “FDT”, like the YG song featuring Nipsey Hussle. The photo was otherwise cropped, with the left corner cropped to leverage the bottom of the fence to convey that the space is larger than the frame. And the top right corner cutting off a sliver of sky to not draw eyes away from the building. I think this creates a feeling of a “larger picture” and the imagery of construction builds on an idea of not only “underconstruction”, but also the “common man” who is doing all the work, but is otherwise unrepresented or actively ignored by politics. Something along the lines of “we’re all here, in real life, doing real shit; and you’re in DC lining your pockets as my “representative”.
Fuck Donald Trump.
