Point of View

Point of View asks Photography II students to reconsider how camera placement influences meaning, scale, and viewer experience. In this project, students create images from a variety of perspectives, including bird’s-eye view, worm’s-eye view, and bug’s-eye view, while also exploring other approaches such as eye-level, low-angle, high-angle, over-the-shoulder, and forced perspective.

The photographs in this gallery show how changing point of view can dramatically alter a subject’s impact—making it feel powerful, vulnerable, abstract, or unfamiliar. By physically moving the camera and questioning the “normal” way of seeing, students strengthen their compositional awareness and storytelling skills. This project emphasizes intentional choice, reminding students that perspective is not neutral and that where the camera is placed is just as important as what is in the frame.