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guiding question:
What is the tangible difference between items of luxury and items of waste? Materials like leather, silver, and gold signify higher value and materials like plastic and aluminum signify lower-value, but when luxury is among waste, how luxurious can something be? By photographing luxury in a setting of grime and waste, the contextual value of luxury becomes questioned, and potentially, the luxury can become one with the waste.
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reflection:
- I wanted to contrast the ideas of luxury and trash and how we assign value to an item by depicting luxury purses and handbags surrounded by litter and garbage
- Materials: Luxury handbags (Chanel, Bottega Veneta, Fendi, etc.), trash (plastic cups, cans, food bags), Canon Rebel camera w/ secondary flash, Lightroom
- Traveled around DFW photographing in locations with high trash density, including landfills, transfer stations, and dumpsters/litter around Central Expressway.