Response to "Editor's Comments: Imaginative Photography"
     The three types of photography are documentary, personal narrative, and imaginative. There are four types of imaginative photography: hyper real, symbolic, new physical universe, and new psychological universe. Documentary shows the world as it it, with the photographer taking a step back from the subject. Personal narrative is the photographer's own story, however, it often needs to have a purpose and a way that the viewer can connect with it. Something needs to be universal about it. Imaginative photography creates a new world from imagination, and not just from Photoshop manipulation.
     I believe my work has fallen into all three of the categories at some point in my photography life. My favorite shooting technique is found subject matter. I like the spontaneity of going on a walk with a camera, searching for something interesting. It's how I usually work. I don't like to plan out shoots very much. Because of my love of finding subjects and simply photographing them without changing them, I think my work can fall into the documentary category.
     I think that my work can fall into the personal narrative category because I use photography as a personal outlet, however, I do not think I use this type as much as the other two.
     I think my work falls into imaginative quite often. I think it primarily fits into hyper real and


My Work:
Documentary: Found Subject Matter

My Work
Personal Photography:

My Work
Imaginative:

Other Examples of Categories:
New Physical Universe:

Andrew Ilachinski, from Microworlds
http://www.sudden-stillness.com/


Kim Kauffman, Simile, from Illumitones
http://www.synecdochestudio.com/html_files/itones-simile.html


Kim Kauffman, Polyrhythm, from Illumitones
http://www.synecdochestudio.com/html_files/itones-polyrhythm.html

New Psychological Universe:

Carol Golemboski, Safe, 2001, from Psychometry
http://carolgolemboski.com/psychometry_img.html


Carol Golemboski, Dr. French's Posteriors, 2003, from Psychometry
http://carolgolemboski.com/psychometry_img.html


Carol Golemboski, Dress Form #1, 1998, from Psychometry
http://carolgolemboski.com/psychometry_img.html