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Anne Mie Bak Andersen, Student number 13033936 Statement of Purpose for exchange Glasgow School of Art, Fine Art Photography, Year 2 School of the Art Institute of Chicago
February 2015
Portfolio description Instant Gratification, Analogue Photography, October/November 2014 This project is about the instant gratification in the modern culture. It is the backside of all the parties and social gatherings, where we dress up our self and our surroundings. The project is concerning the trash left behind that would maybe eventually end up in the landfill. And the project is also related to the phrase “not all that glitters is gold”: The images should be looked at, as visually beautiful images, but with everything there is a backside, just like the hangovers after a party, both mentally and physical. With all that glamour and glitter, follows the cleanup. Glitter Generation, Analogue Photography, November/December 2014 This project is an expansion from Instant Gratification, with the same subject matter, but can be seen with other aspect and viewpoints as well. It is also an experiment where I am trying to collaborate some of my snapshots with my lighting studio photographs, to make the project stronger. It’s about consumerism, and the consequences of our behavior. Plastic Planet, Analogue + digital photography, Work in process, January/February 2015 In this project I am trying to create landscapes with different leftover plastic materials. It’s a bit of a conflicting project, since I am trying to create landscapes that can appear like real nature, but is made from plastic. The world might end up containing so much plastic that the plastic will turn into actual landscapes (if this is not actually already happening). The conflict here is that I am creating landscapes that look pretty, but actually would be a terrible fate for the world, especially if nature as we know it cannot concur or incorporate the plastic. I will then connect the landscapes with weird plastic things around us, such as “plastic people”, and plastic equipment of different kinds, to try to make people think about how much plastic we actually use in our everyday life. Untitled, Photograms, May 2014 These images are from a continuation of another project concerning the body, where I was experimenting with scanning different materials in a flatbed scanner and making color photograms with transparent materials and kaleidoscopes, to create images that could be associated with the body, both internal and external. That project started off with concerns about makeup, lotion, shampoo, perfume, and all the other toxics that we fill our body with, but also all the toxics that are being sprayed on vegetables and fruits. The actual outcome of this project did also bring up associations towards small islands, blood, microscopic images, chemicals and drugs. I had 3 other photograms from this project exhibited in Copenhagen during Copenhagen Photo Festival in June 2014. Selfies, “video” made of webcam photos from 2004-‐2007, Made in April 2014 (It’s all right to fast-‐forward when watching this) This project came to life after I got one of my old external harddrive fixed, and all these amazing pictures of me posing, came to life again. And in this selfie society I feel that it could be an important project to do. It took a lot of courage for me to show to people, but afterwards I realized how important it actually was to show, both for my younger peers, who are maybe still in the state of figuring out who they are and what they can do, and how to present them selves, but also important in these days with where most people show off the “good life” on Facebook and Instagram. It was also a comment to the selfie “epidemic” that has arisen, especially after Snapchat. We have always been interesting in trying to present ourselves from the best angle. Now we just have new medias to work with.