My scholaship entry _ the Promenade

About annaagoston

I went to school to study architecture and not so surprisingly  ended up spending hours in the photography lab learning to process analog color film. A decade went by before I realized that my passion for photography was so strong that I would not take another job as an architect, and that Instead I would make a leap of faith to work steadily and surely at turning my passion into my profession. In the days that followed this realization, I heard myself say to a dear family member “on the last day of my life, I now know, that I want to be taking pictures”.

My focus as an amateur photographer for the past decade has been to take series of pictures. I built my first series while attending photography classes at Harvard. This series is entitled “dorm” and depicts graduates in their temporary home and often work space. In order to do this series I knocked on the doors and explained what I was doing. I had mixed reactions that I proceeded to capture in my pictures. The end result was a series that depicted the diversity in personalities, in nationalities, in field of studies as well as in personal and professional artifacts that students choose to take to school. Even though each picture has its own caption, the series speaks for itself.

The pictures in my series are interdependent and can stand alone, but when seen as a whole, describe an entity, or distill the essence of a special moment in time. I think of my work as abstract, because it extracts moments, shapes, forms, place, time, emotions, and/or light from the object of my lens so as to retain only information that I deem relevant to the story I am telling.

As an amateur, I aspire to learn through practice, experience and any possible mentorship. I greatly admire the work of Jason Edwards and have no doubt that I would gain enormously from the experience of assisting on his assignment in Greenland. I like to think that I am working day by day towards the goal that my pictures will tell even more so the story of people, cultures, place, and time. I hope that my pictures will one day bring awareness to causes, and make people take positive actions for the benefit of people and our planet.