Dakota (Hair) 2003 

For this project I recreated a photo by Ryan McGinley and it ended up being quite involved! We used a friends truck and drove down a road in pennelville around 6:30 to try to capture the light correctly. After working on taking the photo I realized some smaller details like the side braid that is probably tied to keep hair form covering the subjects face and other evidence of its lack of spontaneity. I was also interested in taking some photos that did not recreate the photo but were created by the event of recreating the photo, they are connected by a similar situation but unconstrained by reproduction. I did not spend that much time photographing alternative photographs but it seem fruitful in producing a blend of personal and inspired photography.