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editor’s note Hello, friend! Thank you for checking out this collection of ar t by young photographers. In these pages you will find work that examines nostalgia, anxiet y, femininit y, childhood, loss, remembrance, and friendship. We are proud to have found such a rich variet y of topics, colors, and st yles within the submission pool. Before moving on to what’s inside, we wanted to touch on the cover for a moment. The photo was made by dancer-photographer-general-badass Camr yn Eakes, who has shared many delicious and energizing works with us. We saw something so symbolic in this image. The young woman leans in, arm outstretched to the uncer taint y of the water below. Although it is risk y, she goes toward the void rather than away from it. We felt this concept mirrored in our own endeavours of creating a magazine in a trial-by-fire way. But, this feeling could so easily apply to our contributors. Despite the fear and vulnerabilit y of putting one’s work into the world, they took a chance to get better. Thank you to all of the ar tists that submitted work . Thank you for leaning in. Keep making work .
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Lia Hanson
Alexandra Kern
Trevor Jue
Tia Ruszkowska
Maya Hull
Brittany Toombs
Riani Singgih
Annie Liu
editor-in- chief @liakhanson
senior editor @trev_photos
assistant editor @mayahull
assistant editor @jejakria
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photo editor @alexandrakern
creative direc tor @tia_ruszkowska
designer @brittany toombs
assistant editor @xhibit.a
about LAB 140 is a digital and print magazine created to showcase the photographic ar ts made by the students and alumni of Chapman Universit y. This publication is open to works of all genres and topics. LAB 140 is produced by a team of current students with the suppor t of the Chapman U Photo Club. All work is collected on a submission basis and selected in a blind review conducted by the magazine staff.
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contributors Emma Asson ‘21
Laura Claypool ‘19
Natalie Baron ‘21
Jack Denny ‘21
undeclared emmaasson0602.wixsite.com/ mysite
graphic design nataliebaronphotography. weebly.com
Donovan Brown ‘21 undeclared 500px.com/donovanbrown @donobrown
Amanda Bur tness ‘19
pr and adver tising @lauraclaypool_photo
English @_jackdenny
Camr yn Eakes ‘18 dance @camr yneakesphoto
Emma Gerard ‘20 film produc tion @emmadrawings
theater technology & audio and visual design for live enter tainment @amandmals
Elon Grobey ‘21
Bonnie Cash ‘19
Jack Ir vine ‘20
graphic design @elon88grobey
sociology bonnie - cash.squarespace.com @boncashphotos
pr and adver tising @jack .ir vine
Van Chung ‘17
business administration
communication studies vantchung.businesscatalyst.com @van_draws
Anja Kruslin ‘16
Christopher Lee ‘21 undeclared @chrrislee
contributors Corentin Leroux ‘19 film produc tion @cocofrais
Savannah Lew ‘18 film produc tion @savannah_lew
K ayla Loeb ‘19
strategic and corporate communications @ok ay_laaa
Nicole McDonald ‘21
pr and adver tising nicole -mcdonald-l7j6.square space.com
Alison Pirie ‘18 ar t alisonpirie.com @alisonpirie
Julia R amirez ‘19 graphic design @glassandink
Cameron Shaffer ‘19 ar t @cam_shaffe
K amron Sohrabian ‘20
biochemistr y & molecular biology k amronsohrabian.com @sohrabianfoto
Cassandra Taylor ‘19
graphic design @cassandramt17
Dani Weisfeld ‘19 English @daniweisfeld
Eli Weiss ‘21 film produc tion eliaweiss.com @weissaday
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My work is very personal and intimate but reflects on universalities. I enjoy capturing small moments that are taken for granted. In this way, capturing people becomes intimate. Capturing inanimate subjects becomes reflective. Cameron Shaffer
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This image is an expansion image comprised of 16 photos stitched together. When taking the photo there were t wo main ideas I wanted to capture. The first was ar tistically; I was in this space bet ween high school and college, questioning if I really wanted to pursue ar t and how it’s such a leap of faith to go af ter that as a goal and a career. The second was more technical. The photo was taken in Iceland and I was so inspired by the nature there and all of the beautiful detail in it. I took a lot of photos there, including this one, as expansions. I stitched together 10 or 20 photos into one so I could really capture that detail. Eli Weiss
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My photography is almost always geared towards landscape photography. Whether it’s a photograph of a grand National Park or a small location down the road from my home, there’s always inspiration to be found in all of Ear th’s landscapes. The goal of my work is to showcase the more natural aspects of our planet and hopefully encourage others to step out of the cit y and venture into the woods for a while. Emma Gerard
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My practice addresses themes of gender and sexuality by creating absurd caricatures of popular culture language and imagery through video, photography, performance and sculpture. Alison Pirie
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Humor is a large par t of my practice, as I have found it is a powerful tool for making taboo subjects digestible and creating a more open dialogue for them to be discussed. If I can get the viewer to laugh first, I have a better chance of them sticking around to think about the more serious conversations at play. Alison Pirie
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Even though these weeds are found all over California, when the golden hour light hit them, everything just lit up. My model, Brit, was suddenly walking through a field of frothy gold. Julia Ramirez
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shaping room Jack Denny The ar tist in the photos seen is my friend Kur t Hofer. He is a longtime friend of mine and he is a true inspiration to many. He star ted shaping alternative craf t surfboards without knowing how to surf at all or how to shape a surfboard. Af ter the first few boards he made, and getting the boards under his feet and learning how to surf, they star ted looking and working a lot better. Now, he is making surfboards for people all around Orange Count y and getting positive feedback from anyone who rides his craf t. When he is not surfing, he is hanging out in his Westfalia, making ceramic ar t, painting, drawing, shooting film, or reading books. Kur t is a true ar tist and inspires me ever y day to become more creative with my work and to tr y new things. Ever yone in this world needs a friend like Kur t in their life.
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reflections Elon Grobey I find it a renewing experience to immerse yourself into nature, and then to take this nature and look at it with your head turned upside down. What do you see? A new world is what I see. A whole new set of possibilities can be unlocked. This is how I like to live life. By looking at it from all viewpoints, you can discover things you never thought were there to discover.
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haze Kayla Loeb Looking out of the window from the four th level of the Tate Modern in London, I noticed a fog engulfing a large area outside of the museum. Already feeling inspired af ter spending the day at Tate, I knew I had to get down there and take advantage of the mist y scene. It was clear that it was some t ype of installation - I later discovered it was a piece by Fujiko Nakaya titled “London Fog.� The wind would carr y the fog so I waited for it to calm before I took any shots. With film, you never know how an image will turn out, especially with an element such as fog. So, it was cer tainly a pleasant surprise af ter getting the roll developed.
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quiet gaze Camr yn Eakes I met Cameron Woods through an unfor tunate experience that bound us together. I didn’t know her at all prior to this event but what I do remember was her quiet demeanor paired with an untouchable confidence - something I had to capture. This was my first time shooting her, before she became signed with Ford Models, and I wanted to shoot her in the way I first met her: quiet, confident, shy on the outside, loud on the inside. Using different photographic mediums allowed me to capture as many sides of her as I could, which was something that fed the shoot; the more experimental I’d shoot, the more sides of her I’d see. Par t of the reason why I will always like to shoot humans over any thing else is because I love the side conversations involved with the shoot, the evolution of comfor tabilit y of my subjects in front of the camera, the laughs in bet ween shutters, and my subjects unintentionally reveal their strengths and weakness through their body language.
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figures Amanda Burtness The idea of human connection and relationships has interested me for a long time. With these pictures I wanted to play with the idea of intimacy through t wo people using light and shadows, physical gestures, and the way the camera and audience sees that. I wanted the audience to feel like they learned something about the relationship of the figures, and why they thought those things. In some, the use of nudit y, or more risque images, could possibly be interpreted as sexual. However, I wanted to show how these things, while intimate, did not need to be shown as sexual or objectif ying. Rather, the audience would hopefully see the beautiful nature of human bodies and how they move and interact with
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colorfornia Savannah Lew
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When your batter y dies, shoot film.
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I had a semester lef t until graduation and I just wanted to run away from ever y thing. But not any kind of running away... running away like in a Ghibli movie, with a bag of bread and fruit, into a mountain of flowers. 87
My anxiousness about the future manifested in a strong desire to return to a past that was less judgmental and more carefree. In this series, I wanted to express a moment of happiness and dreamlike innocence in the looming presence of uncer taint y and anxiet y. Overall, this series was much more experimental and spontaneous than others I’ve done. To create the hazy effect, I used a plastic film with colorful fuzzballs (like the ones on the models’ heads) taped to it and placed it over the lens. I allowed myself to go with my instincts rather than pre-planning ever y detail and found the result much truer to what I wanted to express.
we rise Dani Weisfeld This photo series was taken at Rise Festival in the outskirts of Las Vegas exactly one week after the horrific Las Vegas Shooting. The lantern lighting festival was all the more meaningful and truly an experience like no other. I wanted to showcase the tranquility and pure magic of that moment as thousands of people, who did not know each other, gathered together in unity with feelings of love and sadness. Being surrounded by thousands and thousands of beautifully lit lanterns as people released all their fears, hopes, and dreams into the night sky was a moment in time I will never forget.
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credits p. 8 - Anja Kruslin, Untitled , 2016, film p. 10 - Cameron Shaffer, LBC , 2016, film p. 1 2, 13, 14 - (all) Anja Kruslin, Untitled , 2016, film p. 17 - Cameron Shaffer, Olive , 2016, film p. 18 - Natalie Baron, Refugee , 2017, digital, p. 19 - Natalie Baron, Costa Rica Girl , 2017, digital p. 20 - Cameron Shaffer, Grubby , 2017,digital p. 22 - Nicole McDonald, Sweden Man , 2016, digital p. 23 - Nicole McDonald, Surfing , 2016, digital p. 24 - Eli Weiss, Leap , 2016, digital expansion image p. 26 - Eli Weiss, Ice Beach , 2016, digital expansion image p. 28 - Donovan Brown, Untitled , 2017, digital p. 29 - Christopher Lee, Change , 2017, digital p. 30 - Emma Gerard, Vineyard Haze , 2016, digital p. 32 - Alison Pirie, Dancing with Johnny , 2017, digital p. 33 - Alison Pirie, Make-out Sesh , 2017, digital p. 35 - Alison Pirie, Fallen Woman , 2016, digital collage p. 36 - Alison Pirie, Lady in Green , 2017, digital p. 38 - Bonnie Cash, Rollin’ Derby , 2016, digital p. 39 - Cameron Shaffer, Mama , 2016, film p. 40 - Coco Leroux, Max , 2017, film p. 41 - Coco Leroux, Lucas , 2017, film p. 42 - Jack Ir vine, Dissociation , 2017, film p. 44 - Emma Gerard, Br yce Canyon , 2017, digital p. 46 - Cassandra Taylor, Mingalabar, 2017, digital p. 47 - Cassandra Taylor, Vietnamese Donuts, 2017, digital p. 48, 49 - (all) Laura Claypool, Vegas Strong , 2017, digital p. 50 - Kamron Sohrabian, Static , 2017, digital
p. 51 - Kamron Sohrabian, Invariable , 2017, digital p. 53 - Julia Ramirez, Surrender to the Heat, 2017, digital p. 54 - Emma Asson, Reflection , 2017, film p. 55 - Anja Kruslin, Untitled , 2016, film p. 56 - (all) Van Chung, Run , 2017, digital p. 58 - Jack Denny, Bronzer , 2017, film p. 60, 61 - (lef t) Jack Denny, Glassing , 2017, film; (right) Jack Denny, Shaper Corazon Surfboards, 2017, film; (below) Jack Denny, Resin Work , 2017, film p. 62 - Elon Grobey, Blurred Purple , 2017, digital p. 64 - Elon Grobey, Glow , 2017, digital p. 65 - Elon Grobey, Ghostly , 2017, digital p. 66 - (top) Kayla Loeb, Strangers in a Fog , 2017, film; (bottom) Kayla Loeb, A
Moment of Stillness , 2017, film p. 68 - Kayla Loeb, Little Monster , 2017, film p. 70 - Camr yn Eakes, Two , 2016, instant film p. 72 - Camr yn Eakes, Four , 2016, film p. 73 - Camr yn Eakes, Eight , 2016, digital p. 74 - Camr yn Eakes, Seven , 2016, digital p. 75 - Camr yn Eakes, One , 2016, film p. 76 - Amanda Bur tness, Untitled , 2017, film p. 78, 79 - (all) Amanda Bur tness, Untitled , 2017, film p. 80 - Savannah Lew, Star , 2017, instant film p. 81 - Savannah Lew, MisFit z , 2017, instant film
p. 82-89 - Van Chung, Run , 2017, digital p. 91 - Dani Weisfeld, One Light for All , 2017, digital p. 92 - Dani Weisfeld, Beginning , 2017, digital p. 93 - Dani Weisfeld, Let Light Guide You , 2017, digital p. 94 - Dani Weisfeld, Sk y Full of Stars , 2017, digital Front cover: Camr yn Eakes, Seven , 2016, digital Back cover: Eli Weiss, Creek , 2016, digital expansion image
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thanks To our contrib u tors , tha nks for fillin g these pages. Tia and Brittany, thanks for making Issue 02 more beautiful than I ever could. Denise Johnson, thank you for your time and stimulating conversation. Por tola Coffee and Aussie Bean, thanks for brewing up the best coffee in town and letting us linger for far too long. - LK
WINTER 2018