Osmyn J. Oree

An ongoing look into the photographs of Osmyn Oree
Distant Copyright Osmyn Oree Photography 2010 I was looking back through my hard drive and i found this one and it made me  think about  how my work has changed since this session. This photograph was the start of a bigger project that was to become my senior show at the end of the school year. My initial thought coming into senior year was that i wanted to incorporate my personal work into my school work for once and this was the opportunity to do so. It was suggested to me that i try and photograph different types of women and not the common, standard women i guess. So i said why not and what you see in the photograph above is my first attempt. When i photographed my friend, I was happy and just excited to be photographing someone with a different body type and curves and i felt that the photos were going to be something to help me propel forward in my work regardless of whether i used the images in future critiques or not. My excitement slowly went away as  i showed these photographs to my classmates. After a critique and about a year of not looking at this photograph I now realize that sub-consciously i was being distant with this model and her figure, hence the title. I felt bad for feeling that way but at the time i didn’t even realize that i was doing it.This presented me with a challenge. I knew that it would be hard for me to photograph someone who was plus size but i didn’t realize that my mindset would get the better of me and that would affect my photography. In a way it is sort of funny because now i don’t want to photograph women that are smaller anymore. I have been trying to move away from the skinny people and/or women in general. I believe that in the last year my photographic preference and vision has changed but it has been a constant struggle trying to move away from how most photographers photograph. When i say this i mean how most men photograph women and the nude. I am always striving to get away from common themes and separate myself from others. It’s hard but the only thing i can do is keep going :) 

Distant

Copyright Osmyn Oree Photography 2010

I was looking back through my hard drive and i found this one and it made me  think about  how my work has changed since this session. This photograph was the start of a bigger project that was to become my senior show at the end of the school year. My initial thought coming into senior year was that i wanted to incorporate my personal work into my school work for once and this was the opportunity to do so. It was suggested to me that i try and photograph different types of women and not the common, standard women i guess. So i said why not and what you see in the photograph above is my first attempt. When i photographed my friend, I was happy and just excited to be photographing someone with a different body type and curves and i felt that the photos were going to be something to help me propel forward in my work regardless of whether i used the images in future critiques or not. My excitement slowly went away as  i showed these photographs to my classmates. After a critique and about a year of not looking at this photograph I now realize that sub-consciously i was being distant with this model and her figure, hence the title. I felt bad for feeling that way but at the time i didn’t even realize that i was doing it.This presented me with a challenge. I knew that it would be hard for me to photograph someone who was plus size but i didn’t realize that my mindset would get the better of me and that would affect my photography. In a way it is sort of funny because now i don’t want to photograph women that are smaller anymore. I have been trying to move away from the skinny people and/or women in general. I believe that in the last year my photographic preference and vision has changed but it has been a constant struggle trying to move away from how most photographers photograph. When i say this i mean how most men photograph women and the nude. I am always striving to get away from common themes and separate myself from others. It’s hard but the only thing i can do is keep going :)