Documentary Project

When I decided to do my documentary project on the graffiti around Tucson I wanted to show a more positive and creative side of graffiti.  Many people have a negative portrayal of all graffiti because many times they are associated with gangs.  I found some great walls that had very eye catching images.  None of the images I took looked or said anything gang related, that I know of.  I had a friend with me that could read most graffiti and my first image actually says Tucson in the middle of it.  Unless there is a gang that is named Tucson, I don't see any wrong doing in the image at all.  I honestly could be wrong and there could be a hidden message that could be gang related, but I don't know who did this graffiti so I can't say this with positivity. Yes, graffiti is considered vandalism and has a very negative connotation, but how many people have the skill to do these kind of images with a bottle of spray paint? Exactly.  So what I tried to portray in my project was the artistic creative side of graffiti, rather than the side that is looked down upon.  

Texture

Lighting

I thought doing a close up of my object would be interesting because you get a better feeling of how many little ball magnets are actually connected together.  From farther away you can't really count how many there are so this gives a better idea. And just from this angle there are 72 balls alone, so it makes you wonder how many are in the whole cube itself. 

I thought this photo came out interesting with really bright on one side and darker on the other.  I really think the different lighting from both sides puts an emphasis on the object. You are directed more towards the object with this light and dark lighting.  It also puts an emphasis on the shape of the cube, and although the ends aren't perfectly straight because of the balls they seem perfectly straight with the lighting which I thought was cool.   

In a lot of my photos you can't really tell how many balls are in the whole cube.  I thought putting it on a mirror table made it even more mystery like, sort of an illusion.  I like the idea of questioning pictures of objects like this cube so I thought this would be interesting for my viewers. 

Perspective Photographs