Thesis Crit

Group 2B

Having been working on my thesis for the past 3 months I was lucky to be able to showed 5 or 6 20x20" images. Being at this stage of my thesis in my critique I am definitely more focused on editing down of the images (which does seem important for photography) and the group definitely picked up on that.

One point that was brought up was the inclusion of titles. I have never really considered titling any of my images but I can see the need for them now. I was a little concerned about the title pushing the viewer into one direction or the next where as I am looking for a really subtle, ambiguous narrative. Luckily, someone brought up the point of titles which are strictly descriptive such as "Planting flowers for Mom" or "Moving day" to put names and places in the viewers minds. In this way, the critique was very helpful.

Another discussion on the work was the possibility of a small press book. Because I have too many images to include in the actual thesis exhibit, I think it is a great idea to print something like 30 books of the full narrative to display the series in it's entirety. I also find the work to lend itself well to a book format.