self portrait part 2

And yes, apologising again for being so bad at updating. No time or inspiration these days, but anyway...

About a week and a half ago, we had a very good photographer called Kari-Anne, teaching us. She gave us an assignment that was to be delivered last Monday. The assignment was a self portrait. The photo was not to be manipulated in photoshop, it was to be taken on the lowest aperture possible, only in natural light. the photo also had to include nothing but the model, as well as tell the viewer something about the person in the photo.

This one was quite tough actually. First of all, I am not at all comfortable with photos of myself, but I chose to make this my advantage. I'm quite pleased with the result, bur I'll keep on trying. posting it on the bottom.

Monday, Janne gave us an assignment that is to be delivered on the 28th of march. minimum 3 photos in a series with the key word "art". It has taken me about a week to come up with an idea...I need to make it my own, but tomorrow I'm headed in to the studio again, can't wait!

On thursday, we had a visit from a man called Eir Jørgen Bue, who gave the class 2 assignments. 2 photos. One is to photograph the butterfly portrait lighting, and the other one is to photograph a new model on a new location. The photo has to tell a story. That day, we also had to find the photo that we were most satisfied with, scary really.

All in all, there's enogh to do these days. On Saturday we have something caleld "folkemøte". The students arrange it, we find a theme, invite people, do the advertising etc. Next week we also have s "project week". The students is arranging the whole week, we have 3 themes, several people are giving lectures, it will be a very interesting week! Friday, my cousin Sofie is coming, staying until Sunday, will be great to see her again!

Otherwise, it's been a quite weekend here. About 20 of the students went to Lofoten this weekend, coming back late tonight. We are about 20 students left here. Off to the gym now, then I have several applications to write, ttyl

Song of the day: Pink - Raise your glass

Self portrait

yesterday, Monday, we had to turn in a self portrait. These were the criteria for the assignment:

- photo is to be captured on lowest aperture possible

- not to be manipulated in photoshop

- photo is to be taken in natural light only

- Only the model is going to be in the picture

- the photo is going to illustrate a feeling

I think that, mentally this is the hardest assignment I've ever had to do. I am not comfortable with myself on pictures, and I am sometimes having a hard time accepting myself the way I am. I chose to make this

Akt - week 10

This week the assignment was 'act', or lets call it 'code word skin'. A very interesting assignment, but I think it has been the most mental challenging assignment so far this year. Don't get me wrong, I loved doing it, but it's really stressful standing there photographing a person without much clothes on....kind of scary, I think I was a lot more nervous than Katrine, who was modelling for me, talk about a good sport by the way! Very happy with the results:-)

In other news, Sund is, once again coming around with the cold, yay. Can't say I'm feeling too good, but we'll see what happens....ttyl

Song of the day: Eva Summer - fields of gold

personal project

Sorry that this post is coming so late, but here it is anyway.

This february we had a 3 week long personal project, where we pretty much got to do whatever we wanted, within reason, ofcourse. I chose architecture, and spent a week in Berlin, documenting. First 3 days, I had absolutly no inspiration whatsoever, after the sun came out, the photography came along with it. I also wanted to use this opportunity to get better at photoshop. This will be a very short post, I'm off to bed, but here are the results:

too little too late

Last Sunday, the 27th of February, there was an article in one of the national papers(aftenposten) about a middle school in Heggedal, Akershus called "Hovedgården". The title of the article was "Endelig mobbefri skole = no mocking at last?). The article said that 4 years ago 19% of all the students answered that they were being harassed/mocked at school. The results for this year was a lot better, an a lot smaller part of the student body answered that they were being Harassed.

The principal believes that the reason is that the students has stopped hanging at the local shop during their breaks, since the school has now hired a chef and offers a warm lunch for a small amount off money, even though norwegian middle school is supposed to be free of charge. They also offer several different activities during the breaks and after school.

I went to this school during the period of 2004-2007, and I think I can say, without a doubt that it was the worst 3 years of my life. Hovedgården is a mix of the students from Solberg and Heggedal elementary school, and from the first day on it was very clear which people who wouldn't fit in, and the other students did everything they could to make sure of it, which made this place hell on earth for me.The teachers didn't do anything to stop it, they just told me that I was overreacting., and I was determined to make it through, so I 'whipped' myself through it, telling myself that it had to end eventually.

We had 4 different principals in those 3 years, none of them, except for the last one lasted more than 6 months, and the teachers were not present for a longer period at a time. The students were drinking, several were doing drugs, and no one seemed to care...

Of course, I'm happy that they have finally made it stop, but it makes me wonder, why the hell didn't they do anything earlier, why make the students go through these things for years before they actually react? Fact is, that since I left, almost all of the teachers has quit, and I can only imagine why....

I know it's not worth it, focusing on the past, but I believe that if this was taken care of a lot earlier, then it would have been a lot easier for a lot of people, but fact is that they didn't care, or "didn't" see it, they did too little, waaaay too late!