Happy Wednesday everyone - One of the many projects I have currently running through my head is a photo book project celebrating the Black Hills of South Dakota. As many of you know, I have been working the last few summers making photographs of area, and recently I have been tinkering with some potential layouts for the larger book series. In looking through photo books on the market, and in particular those of the Black Hills, I saw a lot of opportunity to showcase beautiful art from the area without relying on the standard "snapshot" of the local attractions approach. It felt like too many of the books showcased marginal images of standard sights and attractions of the Hills without critical thought of why that image should be there. Make no mistake, I am not denigrating the current offerings as I can understand and appreciate just how difficult it is to create something like a photobook. My previous offerings were personal items that comprised about 30 pages or, nowhere near what I hope this current project will be. However, I did know that I wanted to offer something more, and something I could appreciate on an image by image basis. Each and every shot in the project would be there for a reason and would hold up critically and technically. The image today is a concept I had for the page footers. I was inspired by the work of Robert Tisdale, who created high-contrast black and white images of Black Hills fauna. Using images of simple subjects, I pushed the whites and blacks to the extremes to create these sillohuettes. My goal is to use these kinds of images as footplates for the chapter pages. Something a little bit extra for a project that I hope offers something a little bit extra. Enjoy your Wednesday -
High Contrast Series - Bird on a Wire