Immersive Advertising

In comparison to the meat project (see below) this was the project I actually wanted to do. I got into appropriation scans after that first scanning collage project and thought I could take it to the next level, combing it with street photography (which I have never really taken before). I basically combined a model from a magazine ad and placed it into a street photo, adjusting the colors and values to make it look more immersed. I attempted to show the ridiculousness of the advertising icons we attempt to model our lives after and how, when placed in a real life setting, these people would look like fools. Basically, I really enjoyed this project, especially since I was able to leave my comfort zone without needing to handle raw meat.

WARNING: THIS IS KINDA GROSS (aka Delicacy to Disaster )

So, it has been forever since I did my last update, probably because I have been spending all my time photographing fish. I started this project as a side item while I was waiting to get a translator to begin what I really want my thesis to be about. Unfortunately, it stuck for the whole semester. It started off as a survey of the Hong Kong wet market. After being told that everyone and their mom has done a project on the wet market, I decided to actually buy the meat and make still lifes out of them, comparing the super fresh, unsanitary, raw meat to the over-processed, plastic meat you buy at the western grocery store that is probably 80% corn. This resulted in my apartment smelling like a fish stall every weekend for the past 3 months. I am just super happy that I never have to touch this project again and can start photographing what I really want to work on.