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The assign­ment for my Design II final was to make an event into a book with 3 dif­fer­ent per­spec­tives. I wasn’t feel­ing a well known course of action like the Olympics or OJ case, for exam­ple. I wanted to drive this project with as much com­mand in the con­tent as pos­si­ble. I called up a friend, Scott Zagorski,  and asked him if I could use one of his short sto­ries to struc­ture a pho­to­graphic nar­ra­tive. My dude came through and emailed me the two paged, loosely writ­ten story about an argu­ment in the midst of a of Coke-diluted whiskey night between two young men dis­put­ing death by water or fire. The end­ing served ambigu­ously enough to both myself and a few friends that the ‘3 per­spec­tive twist’ of the project fell into place quite nat­u­rally. At the very end, the reader has the option to reveal three dif­fer­ent fold­out end­ings, each depicted through pho­to­graphic spreads.

My only regret was not being able to pho­to­graph the 3 dif­fer­ent end­ings: death by fire, water, and the metaphoric rebirth at the hos­pi­tal recov­ery room. I had to resort to stock pho­tog­ra­phy for the alter­nate end­ings due to my neg­li­gence to time man­age­ment. The per­fect bind­ing wasn’t very suc­cess­ful either, but I def­i­nitely plan to reprint and bind the book with a more pre­sentable man­ner. Here are a cou­ple frames of my first book.

After Carl and I bla­tantly tres­passed across a 72 acre field in broad day­light, I decided it would be less has­sle dri­ving to the Gap than get­ting arrested for my photo land­scape project. I bor­rowed a friend’s pack and devised a sys­tem for pack­ing the large for­mat view cam­era and a exces­sively heavy tri­pod for a nice lit­tle hike in the morn­ing. I left New Brunswick at 430ish and I was at the sum­mit by 715. No hun­gry bears either =D