This assignment is intended to test your imagination, and your ability to capture your ideas as images. Assume for a moment that you are going to be leaving earth on a spaceship, never to return. There will not be any form of entertainment or decoration on the ship. You will not have any mirrors, films, works of art, etc. You will be eating processed food and drinking filtered urine. You may, however, bring 10 photographs with you. In a 24 hours period, without consulting any of your classmates, make 10 photographic images that will sustain you on your voyage. We are looking for personally meaningful images. Do you want pictures of your dog? Your mother? Or the manhole cover outside your apartment? It's up to you, but make it great!
Light is the subject, moving beyond specific people and places, instead aimed at triggering banks of memories that are sustainable beyond the single moment. I include things that are personal to me, but that could be universal of an emotion or an experience. I focused on the light and the way it made me feel in terms of my gut reaction and its interaction with the scene. The way your eyes have to adjust to extreme light and dark; the way something can glow in the night or organic patterns and sharp angles that are imprinted into my brain. The warm glow of lamp light or the way the sun feels on my skin are linked to other experiences with other people and other places. Light as a subject focuses on the emotion of a scene, a way to draw you in and place you in the scene with the photographer, the light and your own memories.