I really connected with Maria
Martinez-Canas’ words in this video. Maria works with photography, as I do. In
this particular video she spoke about her images of duplicity. For this
project, Maria has been struggling with her identity as an artist and as a
person. She found a photo of her father, and decided to use that as a base for
her project. She then took a photo of herself, with the same type of camera,
and then digitally over-layed the photos in a double exposure. Maria said that
she did not have to move the photos at all in order to have the eyes and lips
etc., line up. She found that she looked so much like her father that the
photos fit perfectly atop one another.
Maria then slowly changed the
opacity of one photo, so that you could see only her father in one photo to
begin with, and lastly you would see only her. In between was mixtures of the
two. Maria stated that for her, this project expresses how we are a different
person to everyone around us. We are not the same all of time. She questioned
whether or not we are ever fully ourselves, or if we are versions of ourselves.
I loved how Maria spoke about what
photography is to her. She said that all her work is very personal, and it
happens as she lives her life. She said that she uses photography like a writer
may use writing. It is simply what is going on with her in the moment. I can
really relate to that statement. A lot of my own photography is based on what I
am going through mentally within my life. Photography helps me to understand my
situation better, and to feel out my emotions. I’ve actually done a project
similar to Maria’s in which I combined photos of myself, my sisters, and my
mother with large format film. I really learned a lot about my sisters and my
mother, and definitely myself by doing that project.
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