ASSIGNMENTS

 

Investigating a Site in the Boston Region

By Friday, September 18, you must choose a site that will be the subject of three photographic assignments and a final essay of images and words. Your site can be anywhere within the Boston region. It should be a place you can visit regularly throughout the semester, a place that intrigues you. It can be your studio site or a place you are studying for another course. Limit the size of the site (all of Roxbury is too big). Thinking about the rationale for bounding the site may be key to deciphering its identity or at least those attributes that you want to focus on.

All assignments are due at times and dates indicated below. Late projects will receive a reduction in grade. It is very important to keep up with the assignments, for they build on one another and form a basis for class discussion. There will be no extensions without prior, written, consent.

Site Selection: Due by 7PM Friday, September 18 (via email to spirn@mit.edu). Please describe where it is and why it is interesting, why you are drawn to it. What questions does the place raise, what aspects of it do you hope to explore photographically?

Light: Due online by 8AM Monday, September 21. We will review in class on Wednesday, September 23.

Significant Detail: Due online by 8AM Monday, October 19. We will review in class on Wednesday, October 21.

Poetics: Due online 8AM Monday, November 2. We will review in class on Wednesday, November 4.

Essay: Storyboard draft of essay due at conferences with individual students, November 9-12. Draft of website essay due online for conferences with individual students November 23-25. Final Photo Essay due online by 8AM Monday, November 30.