"Inspired By"

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For our final digital photography project, we each chose an iconic photographer and aimed to take photos using that photographer's work as our inspiration. The photographer I chose was William Eggleston, who is well known for taking photos of objectively mundane scenes which are interesting to look at nonetheless. Many of his photos were low in color saturation due in part to the type of film Eggleston used. He nonetheless often used color a way of making his photos interesting.

The act of internalizing an artist's work in order replicate it in part or in whole was very fruitful for me. I frequenlty find myself drawing on the critical-thinking skills I gained from the experience.

I took the photos for this project around Oswego, NY.

The following are some of Eggleston's photos from which I drew inspiration for the project: