Digital Photography

POM — Digital Photography CUNY Queens College, Prof. Gina Minielli

These photographs were made with whatever I had.

A Seckton HD Digital Camera. A T-Mobile Revvl cellphone. And a Seckton toy camera — a portable device marketed to children — which I purchased deliberately. I wanted to see what I could make without limiting myself to the materials I could not afford. What I found was that constraint is not the opposite of creativity. It is one of its conditions.

The images below are samples from work accumulated for a Digital Photography course at Queens College. Through stylistic choices — altered hues, grain filters, and Gaussian blur applied to low-definition photographs — I worked to induce a particular sensation: nostalgia. Not as decoration, but as a way of communicating something true about circumstance, memory, and the texture of a life lived with modest tools.

I believe differences in circumstances can say something that polished equipment cannot. I hope these photographs reflect that, and that anyone who has ever felt limited by what they have access to finds something here that feels familiar.

POM 

03/2023 - 3/2024

Queens College, Klapper Hall, First Flr. Display near the Ceramics Department