toilet portraits

as the name says, these are portraits of my toilet. simple. it was a mixture-assignement of the packshots we did very early this year and the portrait assignment i'd say. the photos should be nice somehow, and special in a way. additionally you should show your toilet as you see it. i'm really happy what the photos look like, though it was a real mess in the bathroom after that session. there is not too much photoshopping in them, they already looked pretty good, right out the camera.
see what i did and make your thoughts...

masks

this was a rather difficult one. we should pic the photo from the last assignment the "depth" one, and make another one, creating a series with the first. not that bad you could think, but the new one should together with the old one give it a completely new meaning, but it should still remind you of the first. and if possble the new meaning should go in the oposite direction of the first.
with these masks, i wanted to say, that there are no real differences in the minds of different peole, like you can interprete from the older photo. the new one should tell you, that everyone is the same in the end, and that everything else is just acted.
technically i made it like the one before to have it look the same.

depth

after the assignment about "colour and space", we got another photographical assignment, this time about "depth". our teacher first of all told us two stories, one about spacial depth and one about the depth of the human mind. so, we were able to go in all directions by soluting the problem of illustrating depth. i liked the idea about the depth of mind, and wanted to show that only through small differences in the mind, a human being can develope in every direction. only by a tiny split, two completely persons can emerge from the same mind.
i also want to underline, that the picture is 100% pure photo, WITHOUT ANY PHOTOSHOPPING. i made it by unsing 30 secs exposure time and running around like crazy. stefan was a great help by flashing me with a torch everytime i was in position.

colour and space

for this assignment we met our teacher near the area of enschede, where the fireworks-explosion took place. many has changed since that, and a whole lot of new buildings with very up-to-date architecture has been built there. that is why very opposite styles of buildngs and people meet there, on the one hand the older and classically dutch houses, that have came through the accident unharmed and very new houses and constitutions. we should now take a series of 36 black&white photos there, illustrating colour (aswell "diversity") and space (meaning range). i tried to make that,completely documenting the progression of one street, from near the center along the area of the explosion till far out. i made a nice flash file for better presentation on the internet. see yourself what it became.
UPDATE: it seems like this swf doesn't work on the latest version of firefox. i have no idea why. if you can't see it but want to (it really does pay out) you should try another browser.

rozentheater

this assignment was fun. in amsterdam there is nice, little theater, probably more than just one, but one of them is called the "rozentheater". it is placed in a nice, little theater building, which the dutch state did not consider to be that nice, because they thought it was "dilapidated". so it had to be renovated and a large poster should be placed on it's front for the time this should take. we should now imagine we should take that photo, which also should explain the situatiuon a bit. that's what i did.

portrait

i took this photo for an assignment in which we should make a portrait of the one fellow student who was sitting right from us in the lesson that day. i sat next to anna. the portrait should not explicit show the person physically, moreover who it is. a sporty girl who likes shoes as you hopefully see.

this was a photo i originally took for myself, just for fun so to say. moreover it's part of a serie, but it's not yet finished. anyways, our teachers pleased us to make a selection of photos we considered to be best of our work to create make a presentation for the "open dag" of our academy from the selections of all students. i just put it in my selection, thinking my other photos would be better most probable. but this one chosen to be the only one printed from my selection, and that in the largest size printable at our academy (about 1,20m wide). looks great that size if you ask me.

DAna nanaA Batman!

yes, we really had a "genuine" bat in our house. flew in the bathroom somehow and i cought it and started a photo-session with it. nuts.

some fotos inbetween

these are some older fotos i didn't make for assignments or stuff, but yet wanted to show.


in my parent's garden, comes around pretty often hat little fella.


some snapshot.


my housemate. starring.


stefan was organizing his photos and i just took this one.


from a book about ww2.

packshots

packshots are photographs of products, which should present the product in a nice way. productphotography you could say, for advertisement and posters and stuff. that's what we should do! very open assignment, so you can be very creative. here's only one from me, but i already have a whole bunch of ideas what else to do for that topic.