For my next shoot, I decided to look at photographer Nikki Graziano as I thought this was a suitable development to Moneyless as she also incorporates structure and mathematics into nature.
Nikki Graziano, a New York photographer who studied photography and mathematics at Rochester Institute of Technology, combined her love of both studies by creating the series, found functions in which she portrays the unseen relationship between nature and mathematical blueprint. She was inspired to start this series when driving home from a calculus class and noticed that she recognised equations, lines and curves in the shape of the trees around her. Graziano produces her work by overlaying graphs with their corresponding equations onto carefully composed photos. She doesn't choose the equation first as she wants the equation in nature to "find her". Her photographs are landscape, usually either very simple, focusing on a specific plant or curve, or of a broader more zoomed out perspective. The graphs she overlays are sometimes flat and 2-Dimensional, which contrast and compliment the depth and shadows in the photograph behind, or uses 3-Dimensional 'map' graphs which she bends and manipulates to perfectly fit the mould of the picture. Her graphs ore often white which I think works well, as it stands out against the photograph but is much softer then if she used black.
My Response
To respond to Nikki Graziano, I took a number of landscape photographs, some closeup, some zoomed out, and then tried to recognise mathematical shapes and curves within my images. For some photographs, I found corresponding graphs to fit them, and some, I drew the graphs in Photoshop.