Adobe Stock Art Direction Curation (Photography)
Brief: For this assignment you must compose a story visually, using a series of six photos. The only words allowed are a title and your name plus any captions you may decide to include as a way of enhancing the story. What story should you tell? You should use the theme of IDENTITY as your starting point and compose the story around personal experiences, or the world around you, who you are, pop culture tribes, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, nationality, issues you've seen in the news. The choice is yours, but don't spend an age thinking about it - make quick decisions. Your story could be linear or non-linear. Images may be linked thematically or literally. You decide how best to express your ideas. Be consistent.
Topic: Hometowns
Reasoning: I've been inspired by hometown photo storys for a while. Most of these stories take place in towns in the midwest or east coast, while I rarely see any from west coast living. This stories usually have a vintage American feel to them with most being shot on film. I decided to focus on landscapes rather then portraits.
Inspiration:
https://josephszabophotos.com/hometown/
https://streetphotographymagazine.com/article/small-town-storytelling/
https://www.picturecorrect.com/the-ins-and-outs-of-small-town-photography/
https://hero-magazine.com/article/213420/these-photos-artfully-capture-the-beauty-of-small-town-england
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2019/may/22/pennsylvania-small-town-america-in-pictures-photography-niko-j-kallianiotis
Editting: The main thing I did on every photo was to add grain to reflect film stock. On most of them I increased cyan and yellow to reflect the summer beach aesthetic.
https://indd.adobe.com/view/551e79d1-1184-411d-8585-0f092b6aa081
