In this series, I wanted to capture what my Halloween night was like in 2011. My friends and I decided to have a campfire outside our house because the weather was good. I really wanted to capture how much fun people were having and what we did that night. The idea of Punctum was also something that I was trying to explore, and I feel as though I did pretty well capturing the truth of my friend’s personalities in these pictures. I found that the easiest way to capture the way that someone really is requires not telling them that you are taking their picture. As soon as people know that their picture is being taken, they change their demeanor in a slight but important way. This is especially easy to see in the first photo, where the girl saw that the picture was being taken and looked directly into the camera. With the other photos, the smiles are real.
The ideology of my friends is also something that I wanted to capture. We all decided that this is how we wanted to spend our Halloween night. We wanted to be with close friends having a good time. Things like friendship and happiness are important to us, and I felt as though it should be remembered. If there was one artist that we studied who inspired me to take these photos, it was Eileen Cowin. Though her photos are a more intense dramatization of real life, I believe she wanted to capture something similar in her art. The closeness and passion that her photos convey really made me want to take pictures of my friends. Just as she would set up situations that were not exactly normal, this setting is not exactly an everyday occurrence for us either.
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