Defamiliarize

The assignment was to take 10 photos of a place familiar to you and make it seem foreign. The following were pictures around my house…

StepsFaucet

EggsFan

Door KnobDrain

HangersBlinds

BulbBed

I was hoping to do a public place, however I ended up doing my house. The pictures are from various rooms. I messed with the hue and color corrections to give it a different foreign feel to it – a way i’m not used to seeing my house.

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4 Responses to Defamiliarize

  1. The angles and tones definitely make it seem creepy, and devoid of life. I’d watch your back if I was you.

    Excellent work here with the imagery, Saad.

  2. This is a really neat assignment. I like how the egg picture and the hangers pictures came out. Good job!

    T.Hobbs

  3. this is really interesting work, I’m drawn most to the extreme close-ups of the blinds and door handle. Definitely not the way we are used to seeing these objects. The creepy definitely comes through, good work!

    I wonder if maybe the shot of the stairs and the shot of the bed would have seemed even more foreign if you had gotten up closer? Did you try any other shots for those objects?

    • Thanks
      I tried other shots for the bed, however it was something about this one that made it just seem more interesting rather than getting an extreme close up – I wanted the whole bed to show.

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