Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Building Your PhotoFolio/Prof Portfolio

Checklist for your PhotoFolio


  • Create a COVER - this should be striking and captivating
  • Organize your images like this: 1st slide - BEST, 2nd-4th slides - GOOD, 5th slide - GREAT, 6th-9the slides - OKAY, 10the slide - 2nd BEST
  • Introduction: a short paragraph about you, what you do, what you images you like to take, describe your style, describe your growth, describe your goals
  • Mission Statement: Why - why are you a photographer? Why do you take pictures? What does it mean to you?
  • Reflection: What is your best image? Describe - Analyze - Interpret - Judge

Sample Covers

  
  

Sample Introductions

Jonathan H. Dough - Artist Statement
My artwork takes a critical view of social, political and cultural issues. In my work, I deconstruct the American dream, fairy tales, nursery rhymes, and lullabies that are part of our childhood and adult culture. Having engaged subjects as diverse as the civil rights movement, southern rock music and modernist architecture, my work reproduces familiar visual signs, arranging them into new conceptually layered pieces.

Millie Wilson - Artist Statement
I think of my installations as unfinished inventories of fragments: objects, drawings, paintings, photographs, and other inventions. They are improvisational sites in which the constructed and the ready-made are used to question our making of the world through language and knowledge. My arrangements are schematic, inviting the viewer to move into a space of speculation. I rely on our desires for beauty, poetics and seduction.


Molly Gordon - Artist Statement
Knitting is my key to the secret garden, my way down the rabbit hole, my looking glass.
Hand knitting started it. From the beginning the process of transforming string into cloth has struck me as magical. And, over the years, that magical process has had its way with me, leading me from hobby to art. Knitting fills me with a sense of accomplishment and integrity, and has proven a most amenable vehicle for translating inner vision to outer reality.

Martin Langford - Artist Statement
I don't set out to produce art about one subject or another. I'm never without a sketchbook to hand so I am constantly drawing and sometimes the drawings are left in the sketchbook and other times they develop into more in-depth ideas and detailed images.

Sample Mission Statements

Liz Miller: I am a committed recreational skater's advocate. I will do everything in my power to ensure that novices achieve the most positive first experience possible.

Soraya: Latin pop star Soraya, is on a mission to educate women about breast cancer. She is hoping to inspire women to take control of their own breast health, by sharing her personal survival experience and life-saving message.

Ronnie Max: To find happiness, fulfillment, and value in living, I will seek out and experience all of the pleasures and joys that life has to offer. My core values are not limitations restraining me on this hedonistic quest for fun. 

Emilee Siev: To remember where I have been and where I will go through maintaining positive relationships with family and friends. To choose the ethical way by making a personal commitment to honesty and integrity. To find peacefulness within myself by looking inward while using my heart to guide my dreams and desires, and my mind to pursue knowledge, creating balance among all of my obligations.


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