Amelia Bishop Project Idea

For my project idea, I want to do a series of photos that feature shadows and high contrast of light and darkness. These will include a mix of self portraits and everyday spaces and objects. I want to explore the way that directional light plays with the way we see life, and to capture the feeling that a mixture of intensity can help make an ordinary and plain scene interesting. The concept of shadows and light is something I have thought about extensively in the past year as far as understanding that the different highs and lows of life are necessary for life itself to be interesting. A quote I have thought about a lot during this period of reflection has been Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "There is strong shadow where there is much light." which I have interpreted to mean that there is a balance to many of the things that happen in the world, and with every good thing that happens it is usually outweighed by a darker event that challenges us to grow. The photos will be monochrome and will generally be very simply as far as the objects and backgrounds themselves, but the complexity of the photos will be in the way the shadows are cast around/on the objects or myself.