Creative Arts Champlain

Photo students in a second semester 2D/3D design course were asked to create a book based on a piece of music. Here are a few of the results.

Here are a few examples of pinhole cameras and the resulting images that were made by photo students in their 2D/3D design class. Most use paper negatives, but the chair actually has a built-in film mechanism.

These three films explore the idea of the photographic frame and how it relates to time. Forget the Decisive Moment and think about the extension of the temporal.  Andre Lai, Xavier Bleau-Prévost and Caoimhe Beaulé have all created beautiful time pieces for their Image and Light photo option class.

Stillness in Time by Andre Lai

Clementine by Xavier Bleau-Prévost

Daydreamer by Caoimhe Beaulé

The following images are from an assignment given in the Image and Light option class. The students were asked to make a series of black and white portraits inspired by a photographer or a period style. They picked photographers as disparate as Horst P. Horst, Diane Arbus, Katy Grannan etc. They also seemed to like the idea of the classical Hollywood portrait. Here are a few examples:

Fourth semester photo students were given the task of photographing and designing a billboard to bring awareness to a social concern. Here are a few of the projects.

For the final colour assignment in our Introduction to Photography course, we ask the students to put together a series of fifteen images based on a theme.  Sometimes the themes are purely formal – images dealing with colour or form or light. Sometimes these themes can be psychological in nature – emoting humour, or joy, or sadness. Sometimes the theme can take on a serious subject. Below you will find excerpts from a variety of intro projects. Their themes run the gamut from the serious – Kelsey Keeble-Laberge’s work tackles the body-image expectations that young women often face in contemporary society, to the formal – Alannah Lloyd, David Leroux and Frederique Roy all explore light, composition and colour.  Portraits play a role, as in Asa Shulman’s photos of his fellow cadets. And for pure lovable idiocy, check out Sean Durnin’s Prank photos.

Here is a sample of images from third semester photo students. The assignment encompasses realism in fashion photography.

Here is a sample of black and white portraits from first semester Intro students.

A unique take on The Seven Deadly Sins, as created by Alex Gouin for a second semester colour photo class.

Images by Nic Gouin from a 2nd semester colour photo assignment.