So, this has been a really, really long ongoing project for me. I usually don’t have the patience for projects that span over a few months, but that’s what ended up happening with this one. The concept for this sort of floated into my head while I was sitting in my History of Modern Architecture class. This sort of thing often happens and if one were to look through all of my notebooks, one would probably see things like, “models collaged on top of photographs of buildings!!!! [underline, underline, underline]” scrawled between my notes.
I started taking photographs for this in late March when I went college-touring with my sister in Albany. I was searching for buildings that had an oppressive, brutalist, star-trek, bad-idea-in-retrospect-but-cool-because-of-it feeling. Luckily, Albany had plenty of those. I continued shooting buildings in Buffalo over my spring break in April.
For the model bit, Danielle at Divine Finds was kind enough to lend me some clothes for the shoot. Lena and Lana also donated their awesome modeling services and I shot both of them in my backyard with natural light. After that, it was just a lot of Photoshop magic and cutting and pasting to get the final project that’s seen here.
