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D ESIRE february 2020
magazine A publication celebrating young & talented creatives from the VSAA photography community and beyond. Volume 5 Issue 4 June 2020 Editor: Mami Silva Advisor: Abby Davis Staff: 18 issuu.com/chromamagazine chromamag2015@gmail.com All photographs belong to the artists 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.
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For this months Chroma we focus on lifes most powerful force: love. We listen to songs about love, we watch movies about love and we all love something or someone. It’s a universal thing we can all relate to and it plays very well into the month of June: Pride month. Our Chroma team wanted to share our thoughts and ideas around this feeling and hopefully our dear readers can celebrate with us. We sincerly hope you all have a happy pride month even with all that is going on in the world. Stay safe and we hope you enjoy Chroma: Desire.
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Turmoil
Alex Wheatley
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In this issue of Chroma, I wanted to focus on my relationship with myself in contrast to my series in “Chroma: It’s Complicated” where I portrayed an isolated couple. I wanted this series to feel more personal with my ideas of love and more specifically the love I have for myself and my identity.
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These photos represent the small things I do to make me feel more comfortable with myself but my family seems to take a problem with and have sat me down to tell me that it makes them feel uncomfortable. Turmoil is defined as “a state of great disturbance, confusion, or uncertainty� which I feel fits this series best.
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Turmoil for how my family feels about my own self-expression, and how I don’t feel cemented into my Identity, it’s something that I’m still trying to figure out and keeps changing every day. Model: Alex Wheatley
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AU U TT A H EE N N TT II H Y CC II TT Y Anna Saltzberg 7
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I will not apologize for choosing myself this time
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self-love is the chapter that I’ve always wanted to write. s.r.w Model: Anna Saltzberg
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Ode to Viceroy by Mac Demarco
Viceroy Early in the morning Just trying to let the sun in And open up my eyes Viceroy As it’s getting later Heading for the corner Already running dry And oh, don’t let me see you crying ‘Cause oh, honey, I’ll smoke you ‘til I’m dying Viceroy Don’t take me for a fool now I’m only trying to calm down Just trying to keep it cool Viceroy As it’s getting later Heading for the corner I’m leaving it to you And oh, don’t let me see you crying ‘Cause oh, honey, I’ll smoke you ‘til I’m dying Model: Ben Kautz
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F F A A A A D D W W E E A A YY Brandon Nerat
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I made a series about the other side of Valentine’s day, the perspective of the single person. The title I chose was “Fadeaway” because the main idea of the series is that when your single and people around you are in relationships they seem to fade away.
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For me, valentine’s day is usually hard to deal with because I’m never in a relationship and most of my friends are. So I wanted to convey that feeling in a photo series.
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I set up a tripod and took multiple pictures with Zviko in different spots and then edited them into cool fading people. I cropped and dropped the opacity on copies of Zviko and then moved them accordingly to create a simulated motion effect. Models: Zviko M, Justin Yu
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For this series I wanted to look at the different kinds of love and how that applies to their happiness. I photographed people together and alone, doing activities in places that bring them joy. Some of these places include arcades and the park. Locations: Wunderland Arcade West Minnehaha Park
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I used dark lighting for some shots and natural lighting for others. I posed my models by telling them to act like I wasn’t there and to have fun with their friend. Models: Rylee Latham Sophie Oaks Justice Florendo Jaden Gabbard
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S SS T TT I II C CC K KK Y YY Jacob Reppeto
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I witness your madness You shed light on my sins and if we share in this sadness
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Then Thenwhere where have haveyou you been? been?
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I know you’re not in love Like you used to be Guess I’m not the one Like you used to think
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So you you just just run run So - Joji, “Run”
Model: Mami Silva
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A Girl’s Best Friend Lily Jonas
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Model: Savanna Roberts
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Black Love Lionel Theodore
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The items in these photos are personal items, so they kind of mean something to me in a weird way. I wanted to show the beauty of these tools I use. I tried to highlight the shapes of these tools.
For this issue of chroma, I wanted to focus on my relationship with black hair. Kinky hair is always seen as “unkempt”, “dirty” or “weird”. My goal with this series is to normalize black hair care.
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For my series, I staged and created a spread of food photography, focusing around one central meal. We were challenged to create a series surrounding the theme of love, and cooking is something that I love to do at home. This series gave me the chance to creatively explore something I do often, and it was a very enjoyable experience. I used certain ingredients of the meal as “props�, and staged a dining table setting in my studio at home. I shot my photos with a prime lens to accentuate the depth of field, and edited the final photos in Adobe LightRoom. Model: Spaghetti
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How I F F F E E E L L L L L L Reyli Quinonez
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What What Do Do You You Love Love About About Yourself? Yourself? Savanna Roberts
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Self love is argua form o If you were as the question “wh about yourself?� able to respon It seems that alt us genuinely do ourselves, when question a specifically, it ca put these thing
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Often when we think about love, we think about others, but without self love how can we have love for others? These are the questions that inspired me to create a series about the things that people love about themselves. I took each photo to have a different background in a natural setting to highlight the uniqueness of each person. I hope that viewers will be inspired to consider what they love about themselves. Models: Lily Jonas, Ava Bell, Lauren Roberts, Natalie McNulty, Anna Saltzberg
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gemini gemini Mami Silva
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Model: Olivia Turpin
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