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BFA gradshow - April 2023

University of Ottawa

Photojournal 23 is the continuation of a venture into book making, made primarily from a sketchbook, pens, markers, and printed photographs. This journal is a documentation of day-to-day life, mostly through the lens of film photography. This spontaneous process of work serves as a sketchbook-like tool for documenting the big and small things in life, all the while exploring themes of home and learning what home means in different stages of life. Through pictures as well as some eligible writing, viewers can read this journal as their own and relate it back to their own experiences.

This cyanotype series is an ongoing exploration of alternate processes, seeking to create photographic objects with different mediums beyond the computer screen. This work displays two photographs of friends watching static television in bed, both printed as negatives and positives. The images play with light as a reflection of cyanotypes' alternate process. They also explore the meaning of home and how it can be found in personal spaces, people, and ourselves through the depiction of light, showing comfort through times of darkness.