Everyone, this is Sara Winkler. She is a 22 year old student at Central Michigan University studying photojournalism. Sara and I were sent on an assignment Wednesday, November 10, 2010 to shoot a portrait of Arik Anderson, an art student at CMU.
Arik Anderson, 23, is an art major at CMU who finds passion in the metallic art form. Anderson's piece above, "DBA" (Deusch Bag Award) began as his own cotton shirt before it was turned to bronze and put on a stand.
"People come up to me all the time asking for pot, and I'm like no, I don't do that stuff," says Anderson. "I've been growing my dreds for four years now, people just assume I'm a hippie."
Many of Anderson's pieces can be found on CMU's campus including Wightman, the campus Towers and the entrance to Thorpe Hall. Projects can take anywhere from one month to three years to complete.
I found it difficult shooting this assignment because I wasn't producing images with any type of depth. A wide angle lens would have been great to have in this situation considering the background is distracting and we positioned Arik in an area with little sunlight. More natural light could have brightened our subject up quite a bit. I added saturation to Anderson's "DBA" to make it pop more in the overall photograph.
