COMMENTARY
My concentration is a series of photos that create a narrative about the wonder and enchantment of books and reading. The series is taken in studio lighting with simple black backdrop and fast shutter speed to create compositions suggesting the magic of falling into a story. There is also double exposure to create the effect of the character becoming one with the book pages.
The beginning of the series starts with the magician blowing glitter (image 1) to an open book (image 2) as in reference to putting magic to the book. Next the author is blowing fairytale related words towards the turning pages in image 4 to bring this story to life. In images 5, 6, and 7 the characters, letters, and pages are coming out from the book creating motion as if you're going through a journey where the pigs are flying around. As the reader gets more into the book, she is surrounded by pages flying out of her book visualizing a world of fantasy where the characters, letters, and words are emerging from the books as in image 10. In the last two images, the reader enters a world filled with fairytales and stories of the past flying around. In the last image, the reader ultimately becomes one with the book, as her body is overlayed with text from different books. My concentration demonstrates the effect books can have on the reader and how stories can lure the reader into a journey of enchantment and magic.
The beginning of the series starts with the magician blowing glitter (image 1) to an open book (image 2) as in reference to putting magic to the book. Next the author is blowing fairytale related words towards the turning pages in image 4 to bring this story to life. In images 5, 6, and 7 the characters, letters, and pages are coming out from the book creating motion as if you're going through a journey where the pigs are flying around. As the reader gets more into the book, she is surrounded by pages flying out of her book visualizing a world of fantasy where the characters, letters, and words are emerging from the books as in image 10. In the last two images, the reader enters a world filled with fairytales and stories of the past flying around. In the last image, the reader ultimately becomes one with the book, as her body is overlayed with text from different books. My concentration demonstrates the effect books can have on the reader and how stories can lure the reader into a journey of enchantment and magic.