Post-Critique Reflection: Project 4
Critique for our fourth project went well. Because of the organization of my photos for presentation, the message that I was trying to send was clear. The class quickly picked up on my themes of consumption and excessive waste. in general, the class saw how I traced the food that we waste at commons. That idea of the trace was fairly straight forward. The class did not however pick up on the fact that I was documenting the traces that people leave behind and that my camera served as the eyes to see where their food ends up.
There were some great suggestions from the class with how to improve my project and with how to capture the trace in a more interesting way. One thing that I would consider doing would be to capture the same trace in two very different ways. For example, for Stage One, I would photograph one attractive plate of food and then one plate of food that is clearly waste. Juxtaposing this with a shot of the dirty landfill would make for an interesting contrast. Also, with Stage Two, I would consider shooting the dumping station from the perspective of the people dumping the food. This might give the viewer some additional information and would add more to the series as a whole.
