Course: Location Lighting
Semester: Spring, 2010
Project: Using Flash and Ambient Light
Medium: Digital Photography
Course: Advanced Studio Lighting
Semester: Spring, 2012
Project: Student Choice
Medium: Digital Photography
Course: Photo Design
Semester: Spring, 2016
Project: Converting Color to Greyscale
Medium: Digital Photography
Course: Camera Skills
Semester: Spring, 2016
Project: Color Temperature and the Nature of Light
Medium: Digital photography
Course: Photo One-Into to Digital Photography
Semester: Summer 2019
Project: Portraiture
Medium: Digital photography
Statement: While taking my course in the summer of 2019 Amanda’s parents moved from her childhood home to a condo. She photographed the rooms of her childhood home, with the boxes packed, while inserting a family snapshot of the same scene which recorded a significant family event.
Course: Photo One-Into to Digital Photography
Semester: Summer 2019
Project: Documentary
Medium: Digital photography
Statement: Acala documented five sights where police officers in Ohio have killed unarmed black men. In places where the event is not marked or remembered with a memorial, Cresci marked the spot of their death with an X. This is an image of an isle of Walmart in Beavercreek, Ohio where John Crawford III was shot and killed while shopping.
Course: Photo One-Into to Digital Photography
Semester: Summer, 2019
Project: Abstract
Medium: Digital photography
Artist Statement: In this series I am exploring visual tropes of German Expressionist cinema, and its legacy in films like David Lynch’s Eraserhead (1977), as well as in cyberpunk films such as Darren Aronofsky’s Pi (1998), and the body-horror inflected Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989), dir. Shinya Tsukamoto. This project seeks to investigate this trajectory in film history. The primary unifying visual characteristic of these films is the use of contrastive black and white, characterized by inky black values. These abstracted scenarios aim to evoke the tonal atmospheres of the
aforementioned films through images suggestive of claustrophobic spaces, restricted lines of sight, husks both organic and metallic, and signals in blinking light.
Course: Photo One-Into to Digital Photography
Semester: Spring, 2017
Project: Fictional Narrative
Medium: Digital Photography, Mixed-Media Collage
Description: Tableau vivant of personal dreams.
Course: Photo One-Into to Digital Photography
Semester: Summer 2019
Project: Final
Medium: Digital photography
Statement: Longing for the connection of friends now scattered across the world, Miles collaborated with their friends to take portraits of them remotely. They identified poses specific to their friends, asking for input on each aspect, and then asked each person to photograph their own body in fragments. Miles created a still life using objects personal to each friend and then displayed each of the fragments on a different digital device, collaging the devices to form a fragmented portrait.
Course: Photo One-Into to Digital Photography
Semester: Fall 2020
Project: Color temperature/working with multiple light sources
Medium: Digital photography
Course: Photo One-Into to Digital Photography
Semester: Fall 2020
Project: Pictorialism
Medium: Digital photography
Course: Photo One-Into to Digital Photography
Semester: Fall 2020
Project: Modernism
Medium: Digital photography
Course: Photo One-Into to Digital Photography
Semester: Spring 2020
Project: Fictional Narrative
Medium: Digital Photography
Statement: Jack wanted to use his newly acquired Photoshop skills to create a fictional land without Covid-19.
Course: Photo Two-Black and White Darkroom
Semester: Spring 2018
Project: Final Medium: BW Silver print from BW film
Statement: Emily layered multiple negatives in the darkroom to create a body of work that used the game “Cards Against Humanity” to comment on school shootings and automatic weapons.
Course: Film/Darkroom
Semester: Spring 2020
Project: Toning
Medium: Sepia toned BW silver paper from film
Statement: Inspired by Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Annie was thinking about things seeming normal from a distance, but upon a closer look, you notice that something is a little off.
Course: Photo Film /Darkroom Photography
Semester: Spring 2020
Project: Body, Family Home
Medium: Black and White Photography
Artist Statement: College has been a lot about self- discovery for me and I feel like I am such a different person than I was at the beginning, in a good way. With this being my last photo project before I graduate, I wanted to do a little "reflection" of myself at this moment in my life. And since we are in quarantine, I have had a lot of time with myself.
Course: Film/Darkroom Photography
Semester: Spring 2020
Project: The Present Moment Medium: Black and White Photography
Artist Statement: There's a certain rush when I don't know exactly what I'll be photographing. With this kind of photography, I can't plan or stage any of these photos and they can't be recreated.
Course: Digital Input / Output
Semester: Fall 2018
Project: Revived and Remade
Medium: Digital Photography, Mixed-Media Collage
Statement: Ziqi, a Chinese international student, made collages of her friends who were also studying internationally which explore necessary and chosen changing identities.
Course: Digital Input / Output
Semester: Fall 2018
Project: Final
Medium: Digital Photography, Mixed-Media Collage/Installation
Statement: Psychology major Kilynd Burchett used her research to understand the physical visible changes that happen to the brain depending upon which kind of drugs it is addicted to. The people in these images are known celebrities who have publicly reported addictions. She used Photoshop to create brain scans, replacing the face of each celebrity with a scan of their brain affected by the drug they are addicted to.
Course: Advanced Digital
Semester Fall 2019
Project: Self-designed
Medium: Inkjet print from pinhole camera/4x5 Negative
Statement: Chrissie used a pinhole camera to capture this work on 4x5 inch film, then scanned and printed a large-scale inkjet prints. Their work deals with the conflict between their non-binary identity and their strict Mormon upbringing. The pose and setting in this image references a painting of Mormon leader Joseph Smith that Chrissie’s family had in their home.
Course: Advanced Digital Photography
Semester: Fall, 2019
Project: Self-determined project
Medium: Digital photography, Mixed-media collage
Statement: Eriko, a painting major, used the semester to make multi-media collage photographs that combined sewing with photography. In this particular project she was was exploring way that she could communicate the identity and the relationship of the couple through materials.
Course: Advanced Digital Photography
Semester: Fall 2019
Project: Self-designed
Medium: Digital photography
Statement: Kate is adopted and has recognized the desire to have a family portrait with biological parents she has never met. Using the only information she knows about them, he may have worked in a canning factory, and she may have been a sex worker, Kate made this family portrait.
Course: Advanced Digital
Semester Spring 2020
Project: Self-designed
Medium: Color photography
Artist Statement: I named this collection Sweet Creature because it gave me the same vibes as the Harry Styles song named Sweet Creature. I decided to use these old items and give them life again. I decided to use hotdogs and milk to give it a comedic element. The stuff I used is all very old and most of the toys used are ones I played with during my childhood, so these pictures are very nostalgic for me. If you look at the whole body of work, the picnic becomes destroyed, indicating that my childhood is over.
Course: Advanced Digital Photography
Semester: Fall, 2020
Project: The Maggie Taylor Project
Medium: Digital manipulation
Course: Directions in Photography
Semester: Fall, 2019
Project: Semester-long, self-designed body of work
Medium: Hand-colored silver prints from digital negative, photogram
Artist Statement: For women in the 21st century, body positivity is a steep climb. For transgender women and CAMAB nonbinary folk, body positivity is a despairingly steeper mountain. Not only do we fight feelings of ugliness, dysphoria also stirs us to look down on ourselves. On our good days, we fight these feelings by taking photographs of ourselves. Selfies are our snapshots of resistance. They are an electronic prayer. If it is true that “no one knows you better than yourself,” then our choices of composition, crop, framing, and point of view, become the language of our personal manifestoes. Magic happens when we send each other selfies; positive comments and compliments on our hair, clothing, or makeup, make a monumental difference on how we feel about ourselves. Appropriated selfies of my trans friends included in this body of work were selected in collaboration with the subjects and are used with their permission.
Course: Directions in Photography/Alt Process
Semester: Spring, 2020
Project: Chemigrams
Medium: Black and White photography
Course: Directions in Intermedia
Semester: Fall 2020
Project: Self-directed, semester long project
Medium: Intermedia installation
Course: Moving Image: Screen
Semester: Fall 2019
Project: Narrative
Medium: Still image from 4:23 video with sound installed in the Clara M. Eagle Gallery, Halloween Night, Student Takeover
Ben Hardesty, Murray State University
Course: Moving Image: Screen
Semester: Fall, 2019
Project: Sound
Medium: Video with sound, 2:02
Rose Bowman, Murray State University
Course: Moving Image: Screen
Semester: Fall, 2019
Project: Wordless Narrative
Medium: Video with sound, 1:09
Course: Digital Input/Output
Semester: Autumn, 2018
Project: Final
Medium: Video with sound, 4:34
Course: Directions in Video
Semester: Fall, 2020
Project: Self-designed
Medium: Video with sound and graphics, 2:07