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I've got a black tutu
with red-and-white leggings
more dark imagery.
And then we have
a more traditional
Alice in Wonderland outfit,
and so we're going to try both.
at different outfits
for the shoot.
For the Mad Hatter,
of course, is the hat.
shooting
the Mad Hatter's tea party.
colorful about his britches.
My name's John Largaespada,
and I'm an image maker.
A photographer who's
concerned with journalism
is about capturing an image,
it's the finding and capturing.
what's going on in my head.
The best way
for me to be introduced
would be as a collage artist
working in a new media.
clomp, clomp, clomp
Basically, for the first
few shots here, your arms
pretty good. woman laughs
My models today
are Kailyn and Lilly.
Kailyn I work with,
and Lilly's her daughter.
So I want you to take a little
bolder stance
this time, kind of like...
going to be shooting them
as various different characters.
But just the people--
the table,
the trees in the background,
those all separately.
your head slightly, yeah,
about there, okay.
Keep your eyes open.
shutter click!
This is a piece
called Goya Rabbit.
This is going to incorporate
a lot of the elements
that I'm going to use in the
Alice in Wonderland piece.
of images of myself,
but then that I'm using
the computer to draw over
completely new character,
the monster rabbit,
which is a tongue-in-cheek joke
on Goya's Saturn
devouring his children.
important element in artwork
is too harsh.
It needs a little sweetening up,
and that's sort of
the dark humor of my work.
You're holding a tea cup.
Now you're sipping on the thing.
Yeah, there you go.
But when someone
thinks my work is weird,
feelings or anything like that
because I'm trying to make
an unusual image.
I don't want my work to be
something that everybody sees
all the time.
This is shot at
the James J. Hill house.
for this
was just looking at sports
photography, of all things.
going up to dunk a ball,
stretched, strange face
because he's exerting himself
in an unconscious way,
and so I'm trying to create the
looks people have on their face
when they're not
thinking about--
they're in the midst of emotion,
not trying to express emotion.
shutter click!
Open your eyes way big again,
hurts your eyeballs.
There you go.
Usually, when I'm
working on something,
I'll put together
a couple different ideas.
So basically this is
going to be
for the rabbit character,
the March Hare.
This character is going to
be almost completely drawn,
so I'm just
putting a coat on her,
and she's going to
have to sort of pose
going to end up.
you're tilting, falling asleep.
I think I got it, pretty much.
Next is I have to
download all these images
onto my computer and start
constructing the background.
the greenery in here, and then
and window stuff downstairs,
get that in front of the table.
to put the image together,
all that will make sense.
Well, it's been about a month
since we did the photo shoot,
all the separate images
in the same composition,
everything is going.
evolved to the point
the ground of it ready.
I start out with it from a
source material, but in the end,
of what's going to happen.
some starting points,
and then I can build off that.
The way I have developed
the Alice character;
first I look over the whole
amount of the photos I took,
and I just look at them
and I start thinking
what if this had this body?
It's a pain in the butt,
but I get more
precisely what I want.
The tree, I just took by Lake
Calhoun since the photo shoot.
this grass are fake.
those at my disposal
as the image moves along.
piano plays brightly
a complete experience.
beauty and interest
and humanity in the work,
the universal experience
of suffering and the rough edges
of life also,
and hopefully some humor too.
through the weirdness,
some of the tongue-in-cheek
references to sort of
lighten it a bit.