Adam Fuss

I really like this photograph by Adam Fuss. It is a very pretty image, but also seems to have some meaning behind it. The baby looks like it is floating around in a womb. The picture was probably taken by putting a baby on a glass table or some sort of transparent material. Then the photographer put water on top of the material and just took the picture from below the glass. The baby looks like a frog or tadpole swimming through water, it makes the baby look very primordial. The photograph makes me realize that a baby is still an animal and looks just as weird as all the other new-born animals. The cuteness goes away and the baby just looks weird.

Miro Slovik

This photograph was made by Miro Slovik. It looks very experimental, the process behind the must be interesting. I don't know how to feel about the photograph itself, I don't really like it, but how he made the photograph is interesting. He probably exposed 3 different negatives onto the photo paper: the woman, the stack of books and the thing she is running on. The silly pose is a critique on society in that the books she is carrying are all the books she needs for school. Society forces us to do certain assignments that we end up rushing for without thought which is signified by her running stance. Her bowing pose makes it look like she is a slave to the work she has to do.

Abelardo Morell

This image by Abelardo Morell is very interesting. The photographer combined his wall and a landscape. I liked the process he used to make the picture. Making and using a camera obscura seems to be really difficult and patience testing. Since it is a landscape too it makes it even harder because in general landscape photographers spend a lot of time setting up a picture, especially if they use a large format camera. The camera obscura for a landscape picture adds to the frustration of the process. The photograph itself is very interesting, the shapes in the room get filled with the landscape, it makes me want to explore the photograph.