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You can learn more about Alicia’s photography and her process at the end of the gallery
The reflection images with mirrors and light. Some of them were just aesthetically cool to look at once created.
The reflective shells were done on Ilford B&W Ilford film and printed on Ilford sepia paper with some light burning around the edges. Reflections do what they want. You need to work through the results and burn the areas that are distracting.
The broken light bulb image was done with Fujifilm color film and printed on Fuji Glossy Vibrance Paper
Jaime is an interesting character that I met while out on the Gainesville town one night. I took him in like a stray animal and he wanted to be my muse. He was a somewhat broken individual but wanted me to help put together a portfolio of his work. i let him live in my studio apartment for roughly a week. All of the clothing he wore in the photos he either made or modified. Definitely an interesting creature. We lost touch as he was heading to Miami with his portfolio and going to try to get into the fashion scene. I never saw or spoke with him again. My goal with some of this was to critique the fashion industry in how they use models without including their humanity. just a body being used to sell a product or brand...kinda removing the humanity from the subject being used...if that makes sense.
Contact sheet: one of the many from our time shooting - we used a space in one of the art departments on a Saturday
Color prints: Fuji Color Paper taken with Kodak 35mm Color film
B&W prints: Ilford Semi-gloss paper with Ilford 35mm film
Robin prints: A gal friend of mine who was super excited to participate in being a subject. I let her know she could dress however she wanted and she chose her own look. We wanted to do dramatic lighting and used her glass table to provide light from underneath. We were attempting to do a series that would tell a story of anticipation. In Robin 2, he see's what he has been waiting for...for some reason that image does not want to turn right side up (not sure you can fix that when uploading??)
Burning candle at both ends...just really spoke to how I was working my ass off to finish my undergrad and hoping to find some inner peace. (pear symbolism). Fuji color film on Fuji color paper
Savannah: Loved the city. Beautiful historical structures and wanted to use that image in a variety of formats. Color print on Fuji paper; 35mm Color Fujifilm
Savannah 2: Fuji Glossy Vibrance paper - Sepia; Fujicolor film 35mm
Savannah transfer: Polaroid film transfer. Fun process actually. You take a Polaroid print, slice it open, and transfer the Polaroid to a surface.
Web train truss: One of my first photos/prints; Ilford paper and Ilford B&W 35mm film Cool web in a train truss in Sebastian FL
Fuego: took those on my phone with a manual photo setting. Super fun.
Stars: took those camping messing around with a manual photo setting on my phone.