Hi, my name is Bryce. Something I’ve always grown to love and gravitate towards is photography and just documenting moments that I’d like to remember and share with others. For me, photography is a way to help me capture something that would be difficult to express and, to an extent, feel otherwise. Something I’ve also grown to love and cherish is New York and the ambiance and culture that comes along with it. With New York being heavily photogenic, I felt it was important that I portray that through my senior project. A class that enhanced my love for photography was Susan’s photography class, especially through the method of letting us have freedom with any and every project we had to complete for the class. She allowed me to use my imagination to my fullest potential which I was able to use towards forming my assignments. Understanding that photography plays a major role in my life, through the simple act of documenting big and small moments, forged me into wanting to have that as the focal point of my project. For my senior project, I aim to go around New York and visit its most memorable, cherishable, and treasured neighborhoods, shops, monuments, buildings, etc. These can all be places that are both important and significant to me and other new yorkers. These can be places I’d capture everything from the overall area to the small details throughout the area. Almost like a MICRO-MACRO-themed approach, but on a wider scale where I’m choosing focal points throughout the entire New York City area. An example of this could be me taking a picture of the Empire State Building, a solid testament to the power of the American industry, being the first building in the world to have 100 floors, with its steel frame being seen as a “modern marvel”. I’d take an overall, large-scale picture of the Empire State Building, and in contrast a partial, small-scale picture of a piece of the Empire State Building, one of the bricks perhaps. That would be my approach when visiting different neighborhoods, shops, monuments, buildings, etc. during the course of my senior project. Similar to my project overview, my learning goal would be to explore New York’s most memorable, cherishable, and treasured neighborhoods, shops, monuments, buildings, etc. through the MICRO-MACRO-themed approach mentioned above. I imagine my service plan looking like a weekly commitment at a food bank. Having something that I can settle on doing as part of my routine will help instill a sense of commitment. For my community service, I plan on helping Karyn in the library with anything that needs to be done (I’m not sure what exactly would be getting done because we haven’t gotten to that stage yet, but the overall plan would be to help out around the library). Another commitment that I’d take part in is a seminar held at LREI. I signed up for The New Yorker for New Yorkers seminar taught by Ann, which basically dives into reading and discussing long and short-form articles about arts, culture, current events, and politics. This will be a once-a-week commitment for me, and I’d hope that I can use what I learn from this seminar towards my project and its correlation to New York as a whole.
PhoebeNewYork (https://www.instagram.com/phoebenewyork/)
Edward Scha (Photographer)
Mapping Manhattan (https://mapyourmemories.tumblr.com/mappingmanhattan)
MCNY (Museum of the City of New York)(https://www.mcny.org/)
International Center of Photography (https://www.icp.org/)