Part 1: MAKING IT REAL

Continue with the Making It Real assignment using your digital camera or iPhone. If you are at home, how can you take this time to make believe, to make the invisible visible? Depending on your individual circumstances, this could be an opportunity for playful collaboration or solitary self-reflection, to be creatively resourceful with what you can find at hand.

We tend to think that photographs offer evidence of reality: they seem to function as fact. This association between photography and truth can be used to prove not only facts, but also fictions, for better or worse. How can you use the “truth value” of photography to reveal something otherwise hidden? How can you construct or direct your subject matter to make something invisible become visible?

For this assignment, create a cohesive body of work that addresses a certain theme with one photographic approach within the “directorial mode.” Your photographs could be overtly staged or subtly arranged. You may photograph any subject(s), but the 10 images should function as a cohesive project. Your photographs should reveal something hidden, imaginary, or overlooked. They should remind us of the “unreality of the real and the reality of the unreal.” Take this as an opportunity to visualize your imagination or perception by directing / creating your subject.