Project Description Form

Project Name:

Mouths

Project Description:

I want to be able to photograph mouths, inside peoples mouths. I even want to be able to take photographs of the perspective of the mouth. I want to be able to build on this project so i want to start off with the mouth itself. I want to photograph the mouth itself, open, vulnerable. Then i want to push it a little further and photograph from inside the mouth looking out into the world. I dont know how i will pursue this further but i definately want to make this project something that i can build on and always push.

Conceptual Concerns:

i got the idea for this project last week. I had a toothache and i didnt know whether i had a cavity or it was just sensitivity. I took pictures of the inside of my mouth with my point and shoot and zoomed into sections of my mouth. I found it very interesting. I have never really looking in my mouth. then i started thinking about other people and how i never look in anyones mouth. Our mouths are very important things...we eat and communicate with the world through it.

Technical Skills Covered

well in order for the inside perspective of the mouth i plan on buying a little spy can to put in my mouth and photograph the outside world. i will have to learn how to use that equipment and im sure that there will be technical issues with that. As far as presentation and process is concerened, that will not be dealt with until i start photographing and see what feels right with the photographs i will end up with. i want to try things i have never tried before which is why i want to experiment with the little spy cameras.

Formal Guidelines:

everything is going to be digital. i want to definitely go large as far as pringint and presentation, but that will not be decided will i get my images. I will bring my camera to school and work to start photographing the inside of mouths. i still have to look into purchasing the spy cam so once i obtain that i will begin on the photographs of the mouth perspective.

Artistic References

i need to look for artists who have done this. i also want to look into medical photography and see what they have.

Readings

Grade

the grade is not as important to me as my feeling in the final project. i want to be satisfied with what i present and i want to be able to call it a finished piece. i understand that there has to be some sort of guideline to grading but i am more concerned with my success of depicting my message on the photographs.

Goals List

my goals are on a gray scale right now. one of the things i am most concerned with is whether i will be able to successfully achieve the mouths perspective. i will be working with a tiny camera and i am not sure how the lighting in the mouth is or whether the image or little cam will be distorted or malfunction because of the moisture in the mouth.