Secrets

This assignment also makes me think about this OMD song titled Secrets:



For this assignment, you will create a series of four images in response to learning a classmate's personal secret through a random process.

This assignment is largely about empathy. It is very easy to become self absorbed and to focus on our own troubles. In this assignment, you will think about other people's issues rather than your own. In the process, you may discover that you have similar issues in your own life. 

You can respond to secret in anyway that you wish. You do not need to depict or re-enact the secret. You can interpret the secret very literally or very loosely. You might want to think of what situation led to the secret, how the secret changed their life, how they are living/dealing with the secret, what it would be like after the secret, etc. You may choose to think how you have dealt with a similar issue in your life or how you might deal with such an issue.

Also, feel free to choose whatever sex you want for the characters. For example, let's say a hypothetical secret is "I am ashamed of how my girlfriend dresses." You could choose to take a series about living with a poorly dressed boyfriend.

This resulting images are to be in black and white. You are to shoot them in color and make the conversion to black and white using PS, LR, or any other image editing applications.
Technically, the thing to remember is that the images need to have good separation of tone.
 Dodge and burn as needed. I don't want you taking out any elements using PS or LR. The real work is in the conceptualization and the shooting.

Please take this assignment seriously with the belief that the secret you received is sincere. Please be respectful of one another.

Please read this short NY Times article titled An Exercise in Empathy.

By next Monday, I want you to have at least 2 images shot for the assignment.