KD PARRA

No Memory

Kd Parra — Tue, 07 May 2013 05:16:02 +0000

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Marley

Kd Parra — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:26:32 +0000

Snapshots of Emotions

I am amazed by my best friends daughter. Instead of spending my trips home indulging in no good, I spend it in awe of this new life. This series is a documentation of our interactions together and with the people around her.

2011-Current

Overlooked

Kd Parra — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:23:14 +0000

In my series, I chose to go back to my hometown of Lockhart, Texas. Each time I am able to go back I realize how dramatically my own life has changed and how many things in my small town still remain exactly the same.The stability of the place i was born and raised in seems to overcome me and take me back to the unadorned sincerity of living.

Once taken from this place, I was overwhelmed with appreciation for the things i had overlooked. I wanted to document my surroundings that I now realize are becoming fewer and farther in between. With these film photographs I intend to show you the vastly simplistic yet alive small town I grew up in.

2011

Untitled

Kd Parra — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:17:08 +0000

Each school semester quickly begins, but it is slow to end. In the middle of each one I find myself dreading going to class and having to basically dragging myself there. The scenery becomes repetitive and the people around seem to almost fade. My solution? Do what I love, create pictures. I stuck to the same path that I had been taking, chose a spot that seemed unappreciated and moved only my camera using multiple exposures to make composite images of that one area. With these photos I intend on showing you a multi-perspective view of beautiful places, that at first glance are not thought to be beautiful.

2011-2012

Multiple Layers

Kd Parra — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 00:37:32 +0000

Wandering around an antique store I stumbled upon a film camera that still had a role of film in it. I had never really thought about the camera in a sense of being someones belongings, but in this case i couldn’t stop thinking about whose this was and why it was here. I bought and developed it, and was intrigued by the subject matter.

These pictures were taken as a documentation of their personal memories, and somehow it was forgotten and wound up in the junk pile at an antique store. I can only wonder if the memories were long lost along with the pictures. Is having physical proof of being somewhere really that important?

Creating these images layer by layer has made them almost unrecognizable in comparison to the printed version and, in a sense, made them my own. Now these photographs have become my memories and may be more personal to me, a stranger, than to the couple who left them.

Current

About

Kd Parra — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:39:49 +0000

University of North Texas

-Photography major/Advertising minor

-Photo Lab Assistant

NRS World

-Photo/Graphic Intern

Contact

(512) 665 0444

kdree3323@gmail.com

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