Walking Among Strangers

The approach I took with this micro-project was to go along the lines of making myself invisible in natural surroundings. I used pictures from a recent shopping trip to Easton with my friends and photoshopped myself into the photos but when you look at the photo, you only see clothes where there should be a full body. I felt that my super power of invisibility was almost a double entendre in that I don't want other people to see me and to remain anonymous but to also note that we almost are invisible to the people around us every day. When we are walking to class or shopping in the store, we are walking among strangers who we've never met, will never see again, and will probably never remember their faces. With these pictures I wanted to show that although we may walk by hundreds of people everyday, we never truly see or remember them making them 'invisible'.

I actually ended up making three different photos to combine to make one photo set for this project because I really got into making the images. I felt the first two were quite simple in just rearranging some of the foreground and background layers to position the picture of myself in-between, so I took one of the more candid photos while we were eating and photoshopped my head out of the picture. This actually proved to be a little troublesome and I wish I could have spent more time refining my methods for making images of what wasn't there but I felt that it turned out pretty well. I really liked doing the last photo because it took some effort to align all of the lines that you wouldn't normally notice like the lines of the wall behind my head and the line of the counter behind me. Overall I liked in my pictures how I was able to capture (somewhat candidly) the other people around me going about their normal routine to emphasize that they didn't really notice I was there.