Scott Fortino

The Artist I chose for this week's assignment, Shooting Exercise # 3: Seeking Inspiration, I chose to emulate Scott Fortino's style and subject matter of photography, as I feel as though I'm interested in photographing similar aspects of the world in a parallel way. Scott Fortino's work displayed on www.mocp.org (the website of the Museum of Contemporary Photography in the Collections section under Midwest Photographers Project), is shown as a set of three works containing only spaces that have been photographs. These three in particular do not have any people residing or visiting the photograph space; they are seemingly lost in this collection of eclectic and oddly characterized world of photos. The photographs themselves have an aura of displacement, however they also bring a sense of organization and thought to mind when viewing. The colors in each photograph give visual weight and balance to the photograph, and the chosen subject matter creates a sense of eerie, odd world and a somewhat uncomfortable feeling. School house photographs and a jail cell photograph fill the 3 spots of work displayed along with the description and background of Scott Fortino, however the field of photography that Scott Fortino seems to work in is that of a much more expanded body of work, seen in some of his other landscape and close-up photographs elsewhere online.

As someone who is interested in organization and chaos, his photographs caught my eye right off the bat. I am glad that I get a chance to do an 'ode' to Scott Fortino. Also, his photographs on the MOCP website are from 1952, meaning he's an old and probably awesome guy.