Photo-synthesis : a metacognitive reflection on a journey of learning photography

Abstract

Photography is an art form that first caught my interest in high school, and this creative thesis is meant to explore that interest. Through reading in self-regulated learning and in photo theory combined with a process of creating images I have attempted to teach myself photography. Over the course of this project I created nearly 600 images, several of which are displayed in this thesis. These images were shaped by Susan Sontag's On Photography, Roland Barthes' Camera Lucida, and Lynda Barry's What It Is. This project is a documentation of the process by which I came to better understand photography as an art form.