I am also looking to apply this coming year for MFA Photo and things are down to the wire.
I would mind some feedback on this statement and my work.
Thanks in Advance and I would love to respond to anyone else who needs any second eyes and opinions. Applying to:
Tulane
Uni of Indiana, Bloomington
Columbia College Chicago
The Human Environment // http://jhbrowning.com/human-environment
In Human Ecology, the study of the relationship between humans and their environment, there are three types of interactions between man and nature: physical-biological, social-cultural, and human-built. These photographs are an attempt to compose and document both candid and created moments to form a visual look into Human Ecology, specifically the relationship and interaction between nature and humans.
Like Robert Adams and The New Topographics, the photographs document the changing landscape of our progressing life and changing culture as well as, our continued separation, isolation, and domestication of the natural world. Robert Adam’s underscores the beauty of nature even in the midst of human use and overuse and captures our unique relationship with the land. Unlike Adams, the work is a more intimate view into this overlap of man and nature. Even though we are so detached from the natural environment, we still consciously attempt to connect with and include natural elements in our human habitat.
These natural reminders both real and artificial stand to provide a way for us to understand and connect to the natural world. The photographs search for the daily harmonies between the natural and the human worlds, each providing a perspective of duality yet also one of inclusion.