As an English Writing and Rhetoric major, I don’t have a lot of experience with photography. I did photography for yearbook as a senior in high school and therefore mostly present images from an objective way of documenting what I see, rather than taking what I see and coding it through a unique perspective. This project was incredibly difficult for me and really challenged my thinking and creative process. Each time I went out I had a plan and each time I finished, what I was shooting had changed. The collection I discovered in all my photographs is ,I believe, a solid representation of what gestalt is. I tried working a lot with shadows and nuanced contrasts with light. Some of the guidelines that I set for myself was that I would only use natural light and that I wouldn’t edit any of my photos, so each of these photos showcases interplay between sparing uses of natural light and darkness. Therefore all of my pictures are from outside on South Congress and heavily feature nature. The set also utilizes the principles of gestalt, such as grouping, containment, repetition, proximity, continuity, and closure, all in their own way.
