Written Statement

This photographic series will seek to explore the concept of interpretation in photographs with text that is superimposed on a photograph. What fascinates me in the field of photography is its inherent ability to comment on contemporary culture and cause people to reflect on how they feel about their own lives. I think that the integration of text in a cryptic photograph makes an image more powerful in that it grabs a viewer’s attention more, and can get the intended message across without it being lost in translation. I was inspired by Barbara Kruger’s work when I saw her photographs because it made me pause to read them, and then look at her photographs in a new light after getting what I could out of the text she added. Poignancy in an image is highly desirable to me both as a viewer and artist, therefore I chose to use the black and white with a passionate red coupled with text to aid articulation of ideas, just as Kruger does. Uniqueness in my images lies in the technique in usage of text. I solely use text rather than a box to highlight it because I feel that it interferes with the actual beauty of the image.