Jylland, Denmark

My Photo scholarship 2011 entry

Denmark | Monday, November 7, 2011 | 5 photos

What has always intrigued me about photography is the power of the camera to create an image that is different than what the human eye perceives. Rather than using the camera to plainly document, a unique image can be sculpted from existing elements to influence viewers’ eyes towards particular aspects of a real scene. In its physical limitations—the production of a two-dimensional image—the camera becomes a powerful tool of exposure and storytelling.

In college, I studied architecture, urban environments and photography, and in the future, hope to synthesize these interests to photograph urban and rural conditions around the world. Though photography, I hope to show how the human experience is derived from both natural and synthetic landscapes, and to use these findings to help inform the future of design. The spatial and compositional qualities of the built environment have, naturally, influenced the way that I make images with the camera, and to me, are inextricably bound. I would love the opportunity to study further, through the tool of photography, the relationship of the natural and manmade environment to the people who utilize it. The notions of “place”, “home”, “community”—often buzzwords in the design of contemporary built environments—can be explored uniquely through photography, and I plan to contribute to this ongoing discussion by finding examples of the human relationship to its surroundings to either support or digress from a particular design stance. It is this potential of photography that is, on a grand scale, the most interesting to me. The World Nomads Travel Photography Scholarship would be an invaluable learning experience to further my ongoing photographic, cultural and environmental education.