CHROMA magazine
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DECEMBER 2016
CHROMA magazine
A publication celebrating young & talented creatives from the VSAA photography community & beyond. Volume 2 Issue 3 December 2016 Based in Vancouver, Washington
Editor: Kastine Cook Advisor: Abby Harris Staff: 10 issuu.com/chromamagazine chromamag2015@gmail.com All photgraphs belong to the artist and have been published with their permission. DO NOT copy or share any images without explicit permission from Chroma Magazine. Thank you for respecting the photographers featured and the integrity of their work.
EDITOR’S LETTER As artists, we can easily fall into habits. We often need a necessary push in order to create our best work. For this month of Chroma, our photographers were challenged to alter their photos to create a series that is both pushes boundaries and is truly inspired. I hope you find inspiration in the work of these very talented individuals & thank you for reading Chroma Magazine. Kastine Cook Editor
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STAFF GALLERY betsy hanrahan // 08 makena wilcox // 14 P. 44
sara wheatley // 20 jane greene // 26 devon macgregor // 32 aubrie wescom// 38 ellie josephson// 44 madeleine newton// 50
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kastine cook // 56 abby davis harris // 62
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ON THE COVER: madeleine newton // 50
BETSY HANRAHAN the morgue How did you do it? I began the process by taking photos of objects because I was interested by their lines. Some examples of my subjects are a pool of oil, a rusty wall, and waves in the ocean. I then put the photos into Photoshop and began editing them. I selected imagery out of the pictures that I was particularly attracted to. I selected them using the rectangular marquee tool. I duplicated, rotated, and flipped the images to get the kaleidoscope effect. Then, I created and revisited old work from Adobe Illustrator. I overlaid these images over the kaleidoscope backgrounds. As an overlay I also used an image I used of Lauren that I used the quick select tool to isolate. Why did you do it? For this project, I wanted to explore the theme of death. I was thinking about creative ways to explore the way people die. I wanted this series to be a visual representation of souls in a morgue. For the backgrounds I wanted each background to be a unique representation of a person’s personality. I played around with each image until I got the desired effect. The overlaid drawings are meant to represent the ways the people died. The causes of death include death by texting and driving, amputation, lung cancer, drugs, and a broken heart.
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MAKENA WILCOX
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TUMMY TUCK sara wheatley WHY DID YOU DO IT? I chose to do this series because recently the junior and senior classes presented core projects based on liminality. Liminality is the idea of being two things at once. People who choose to pursue plastic surgery are changing their outer appearance while usually holding on to the same identity. In the photos my model, Teagan Pettit Estell, looks ashamed and reluctant to have the surgery preformed. I chose this route of perspective for the photos because 48 percent of women choose to have plastic surgery preformed due to media pressure. I believe this is an issue in our society that needs to be exploited more. I want these photos to make viewer’s ask themselves the question, “Are you inflicting negative body-image views in the things you post?”
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JANE GREENE
disco inferno
WhAT DID YOU DO? I researched some photographers who are known for altering their photos, and found artist Lucas Simões. He has a few series, such as “nostalgia” and “ausência” in which he burned photos. I found a lot of inspiration in these photos, and decided to put my own twist on them. HOW DID YOU DO IT? I gathered some portraits I’ve taken over the past few months, and printed them out. I decided which part of the photo I was going to alter, and then made some cuts on that part of the picture to make it easier for the flame to catch. Next, I set fire to the photos, and took pictures! WHY DID YOU DO IT? As we’re nearing the end of 2016, (not one of my favorite years so far) I’ve been feeling the need to start fresh, or reset. Fire is often associated with rebirth and cleansing, so I thought this series would be kind of therapeutic. The theme just so happened to be alteration, and fire does in fact alter things, so it worked out well.
projections
Devon MacGregor
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AUBRIE WESCOM sight
chroma // 41
ellie josephson
REVISION
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ROSE
madeleine newton
WHAT DID YOU DO? I took photos and edited them all in slightly different ways with the color pink as the theme. WHY DID YOU DO IT? I’ve been taking a lot of senior photos lately, and I haven’t had many opportunities to experiment with photoshop, so I wanted to try some new things with this series.
PIGMENT kastine cook What did you do? I photographed strange objects in a typical still life way. In Photoshop I then proceeded to edit the images to be highly pigmented. Why did you do it? I have always wanted to experiment with still life photography as well as more extreme editing. This series gave me the opportunity to do so.
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ABBY DAVIS HARRIS paint on photos WHAT DID YOU DO? I embellished my photos with photo paint. HOW DID YOU DO IT? My photos, from various photo shoots, were printed and I used the images to inspire experimentation with paint. WHY DiD YOU DO IT? I have always adored old hand painted photographs from the 1960’s. I found a box of oil paint for photographs in the photo room, left behind by the previous photography teacher.
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