I had a fun chat on Flak Photo Network with Stephanie Dean, and she ended up sending me a selection of photographs in response to the theme. These photographs were taken of her whilst she was in photographic education, and she elaborates on them too:
“This was by Mark Lidinsky(Sp? I know his last name was polish and started with an L). We were in a large format class at CCA (CCAC! – Oakland and San Francisco, CA). He called me over to model as Georgia O’Keefe in Alfred Stieglitz’ classic portraits of Georgia. This was the only one I had handy. There are others, and they are beautiful. This one was one where he tore the negative. Type55. Circa 1996.”
“The one with the tomato is by Stephanie White, 2003. She was in undergrad at Columbia College Chicago when I was in grad school. She was doing this for a senior seminar.It’s always like this – “can I photograph you? yes? Ok! Can I do it at your place?” because I was the one that painted my house crazy colors. In my apartment that I had during graduate school, my kitchen was bright pink. Just like in the photo.”