For my final photography project, I exposed my own personal experiences with three relationships and the affect they have had on me this past year. I created concrete conceptual images based on emotions and feelings that I have experienced. I want this project to be personal and intimate, but at the same time relatable to my viewers.

I have always been interested in confessional work, such as Nan Goldin’s photography, Sylvia Plath’s poetry, and Allen Ginsberg’s writings. I find it fascinating that the artist or writer is allowing their audience to peep into their life and exposing all the raw details – the good and the bad. People in our modern culture love this, considering all of the gossip magazines and interviews with celebrities there are. I am interested in a deeper kind of experience though, and one that the artist chooses to show on their own in their own way. I want to develop myself further as a confessional artist by using my own moments in life to create art from. 

My process began with writing down descriptive words that I think apply to my situation. I wanted to be able to make those words come to life in photography. I also thought of instances throughout this year that had a profound effect on me and loosely wrote down how I will try to show them. I used my film camera with 35mm film and printed on 8x10 paper. I created some diptychs to better show what I wanted to get across to my viewers. After the photos were printed, I wanted to do some post-manipulation to them, again to get across my message more successfully.