New Project Idea

Last year I took a Journalism 500: Special Topics class from National Geographic photographer Jim Richardson. 

  The class focused on the many ways in which photographers are really employed visual storytellers. From this concept was born this project: "My Half of the Room" is a series of portraits of college students living in a dorm room. Students who have moved away from home for the first time, who are given a very small one half of a room without so much as a sink in it, and who are surrounded by all of their worldly possessions. These portraits are meant to be a commentary on the college life and how important and defining possessions become when they are whittled down to the most essential. I ended up displaying the project in a large accordion book but was not happy with the final result. I believe that if I go back and work with these photos again (this time in the context of Project #3 for BDS102) I would be able to combine them in a new way so as to show the similarities and differences in all of my subjects.