Carmen Truong Task #1

What inspired me to take this photograph was Thomas Struth's family portraits. I was interested in his theme of family dynamics and wanted to translate that theme onto my own family. I decided to focus on "family dinners." Family dinners usually (for me at least) evoke the cute scene of a family happily enjoying each others company and asking each other how their day was. In my family, once dinner is served, we all retreat (for the most part) into our own world, usually my parent's sitting in the kitchen with the occasional conversational bit put in, and me and my sister in the living room sitting in front of the TV. To try to portray this disconnect I shot a still life of what the table usually looks like after dinner is over. I wanted the scene to look nostalgic and almost sad so I converted my photo into black and white and made it somewhat flat. I didn't really know how to approach this task and if I achieved what I set out to do, but any helpful comments will be much appreciated.