tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22746232224321413232024-02-07T10:37:28.382-08:00AJ - Under the SunAnand Josyulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06942343620432423461noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2274623222432141323.post-13609049343769347012015-07-27T22:59:00.002-07:002015-07-27T22:59:45.572-07:00New website and blog
Just a heads up to all incoming traffic - all of my content and blog has moved to my new website www.anandjosyula.com
Anand Josyulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06942343620432423461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2274623222432141323.post-50980203515220904892013-05-24T13:04:00.000-07:002014-02-10T16:46:56.487-08:00Connect and Disconnect
Interesting portraits can be made with just with eye contact or the lack of it - subtle or intense, there is so much emotional content to play around with - look at me, look through me or wander the worlds within.
The photographs here were put together for a Anand Josyulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06942343620432423461noreply@blogger.com2San Francisco, CA, USA37.7749295 -122.4194155000000137.373502 -123.06486250000002 38.176356999999996 -121.77396850000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2274623222432141323.post-3986155588968327132013-05-22T23:52:00.001-07:002013-05-22T23:52:47.971-07:00Abandoned Spaces
Just as every being has a life cycle so does a building - birth/construction, life/utilization, death/demolition. There are times the structure can no longer server its what it was meant to do, it enters a state of limbo where uncertainity lays in its future. Abandonment is the first of the stages, decay embraces it, untimely death waits for it in its clouded future. For many you almost knowAnand Josyulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06942343620432423461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2274623222432141323.post-49989300738962996842013-03-13T15:15:00.002-07:002013-04-11T17:00:06.015-07:00Port of Oakland
A day spent a going around the Port of Oakland.
Loading cranes at the Port of Oakland in the morning. Taken from across the bay on the piers south of the Bay Bridge in San Francisco. The fog and dust was taking its sweet time to clear up.
This is a hilarious one and love it for what it does. Multiple disconnected visual elements come together to form a story.
PanoramicAnand Josyulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06942343620432423461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2274623222432141323.post-14584628833681434122013-03-09T15:24:00.000-08:002013-03-18T09:40:56.648-07:00In search of color
Walking down the streets of San Francisco in the Marina and Richmond neighborhoods in search of color. So much of my past work relied on black and white that I now feel it wouldn't be so bad to shoot just for the sake of color.
Some of these go towards assignment submissions for a course in the Anand Josyulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06942343620432423461noreply@blogger.com0San Francisco, CA, USA37.7749295 -122.4194155000000137.373502 -123.06486250000002 38.176356999999996 -121.77396850000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2274623222432141323.post-71531524309337644082013-02-28T17:14:00.000-08:002013-03-10T16:12:44.251-07:00First Semester @ AAU - A retrospective
A foundation semester for everything that is coming to you throughout the rest of the program. If I were to go over what I learnt through the semester and summarize it, then this follows
- A ton of names in the world of photography. Past and contemporary photographes who have continually challenged and changed the landspace of photography.
- Start thinking of photographs as a body Anand Josyulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06942343620432423461noreply@blogger.com0San Francisco, CA, USA37.7749295 -122.4194155000000137.373509999999996 -123.06486250000002 38.176349 -121.77396850000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2274623222432141323.post-52501881332851728882013-02-27T17:19:00.001-08:002013-02-28T17:17:06.679-08:00GLA 625 - The History of Photography - Assignments, Midterms and Finals
Late 1800s. Paris. Atget.
Ah well, lets keep this post simple. A course with a laden plate of reading material and formidable amount of written content that needs to be generated. Here are some of the more useful articles and papers.
Photo Essay 1, handouts given in class, to be discussed in class the following week.
"After the End of Art" by Arthur Anand Josyulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06942343620432423461noreply@blogger.com0San Francisco, CA, USA37.7749295 -122.4194155000000137.373509999999996 -123.06486250000002 38.176349 -121.77396850000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2274623222432141323.post-17313807720237379762013-01-26T16:32:00.002-08:002013-04-12T00:38:51.143-07:00PH 603 - The Language of Photography - Finals
Submit 8-10 photographs which form a consistent body of work. The theme/style/genre of photography are left to you. Plus interview a photographer, someone significant in the field of photography you are interested in or aspire to be a part of, and submit a short paper it.
Some of projects chosen by the students in class
- Color in water - Landscapes and Moods
- Food photography
- Anand Josyulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06942343620432423461noreply@blogger.com2San Francisco, CA, USA37.7749295 -122.4194155000000137.373509999999996 -123.06486250000002 38.176349 -121.77396850000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2274623222432141323.post-75308783776708517352013-01-25T13:39:00.000-08:002013-04-12T00:39:14.265-07:00PH 612 - The Nature of Photography - Finals
Somewhere around eight weeks into the term, the time midterms are conducted, everyone in class is asked to choose a subject/theme for their finals and has to submit the proposal in writing. Once the proposal gets ok'ed you have about eight weeks to the day of the finals, where you have to present ten photographs which form a coherent body of work. While I had chosen to make images in the Anand Josyulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06942343620432423461noreply@blogger.com0San Francisco, CA, USA37.7749295 -122.4194155000000137.373509999999996 -123.06486250000002 38.176349 -121.77396850000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2274623222432141323.post-78198398112742639742013-01-23T12:28:00.000-08:002013-01-26T16:33:25.840-08:00PH 603 - The Language of Photography - Midterms
Mid terms ... ah mid-terms. Just when you think the pace is picking up and the assignments are getting demanding, you are suddenly thrown into the gladiator pit and asked to create 8 unique photographs. But not to fret, passing through the eternal fires is a necessary task, coming out of the pit unscathed or otherwise leaves you wise and confident for more to come.
Now on to the rules Igor
- Anand Josyulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06942343620432423461noreply@blogger.com0San Francisco, CA, USA37.7749295 -122.4194155000000137.373509999999996 -123.06486250000002 38.176349 -121.77396850000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2274623222432141323.post-23159143917681241482013-01-21T20:54:00.000-08:002013-01-26T16:39:36.377-08:00PH 603 - The Language of Photography - Assignments
Weekly assignments for The Language of Photography course in the first semester. Assignments given out are due for submission the next week. Photograph(s) are to be printed typically on an A4 size photo-paper. But you can choose to get a smaller or larger print if you desire.
Everyone puts their work on the wall, to get critiqued by the instructor and at times even by the Anand Josyulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06942343620432423461noreply@blogger.com0San Francisco, CA, USA37.7749295 -122.4194155000000137.373509999999996 -123.06486250000002 38.176349 -121.77396850000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2274623222432141323.post-42813938292337347392013-01-21T18:22:00.000-08:002013-01-23T11:41:14.599-08:00PH 612 - The Nature of Photography - Assignments
Weekly assignments for The Nature of Photography course in the first semester. Assignments given out are due for submission the next week. Photographs are to be printed typically on an A4 size photo-paper. But you can choose to get a smaller or larger print if you desire.
Everyone puts their work on the wall, to get critiqued by the instructor and by the students. Receiving Anand Josyulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06942343620432423461noreply@blogger.com0San Francisco, CA, USA37.7749295 -122.4194155000000137.373509999999996 -123.06486250000002 38.176349 -121.77396850000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2274623222432141323.post-91768112379058022522012-12-27T21:58:00.000-08:002013-02-27T17:40:05.559-08:00GLA 625 - The History of Photography
Boulevard du Temple, Paris. 1838. Daguerreotype
One of the courses with which I have a love/hate relationship is the History of Photography. I love it for all the meaningful information on the history of the medium that I have learnt about, and I hate it for the amount of reading, research and writing I had to do. Come to think of it I dont think I would have attained theAnand Josyulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06942343620432423461noreply@blogger.com0San Francisco, CA, USA37.7749295 -122.4194155000000137.373509999999996 -123.06486250000002 38.176349 -121.77396850000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2274623222432141323.post-35574931758806931042012-12-03T20:21:00.001-08:002012-12-03T20:23:47.960-08:00China Town
One of the many shops in China Town selling
chinese statues.
One of the largest and oldest chinese community in Northern America is located in the heart of downtown San Francisco.
The tunnel on Stockton which leads up to China Town.
Anand Josyulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06942343620432423461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2274623222432141323.post-37531661983691519182012-11-28T11:29:00.001-08:002012-11-30T17:58:24.371-08:00Twin Peaks
Atop one of the peaks of Twin Peaks, viewing eastward.
Market Street, downtown San Francisco, Bay Bridge
and Oakland much further away.
Located in the centre of San Francisco these hills offer panoramic views over the entire city.
Sutro towers. A flight closing in on the
approach path to SFO.
Anand Josyulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06942343620432423461noreply@blogger.com0San Francisco, CA, USA37.7749295 -122.419415537.6745235 -122.577344 37.8753355 -122.261487tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2274623222432141323.post-43373616274445070312012-11-23T19:19:00.001-08:002013-01-25T13:47:55.855-08:00PH 612 - The Nature of Photography
There is so much content covered in the introductory photography courses at the Academy of Art University, that it comes as no surprise that they ended up splitting all the content between two courses: The Language and Nature of Photography. This course helps build strong foundations on visual literacy and expression. Students are better equipped to both verbally and visually communicate Anand Josyulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06942343620432423461noreply@blogger.com0San Francisco, CA, USA37.7749295 -122.419415537.6745235 -122.577344 37.8753355 -122.261487tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2274623222432141323.post-10041014979001067482012-11-13T20:06:00.000-08:002012-12-28T20:13:43.472-08:00The Golden Gate Bridge
The Golden Gate Bridge
Is there any one is San Francisco who has not seen or photographed the Golden Gate bridge? I don't think so. And its so wrong to be the only one who hasn't done that.
A 1.7 mile suspension bridge connecting San Francisco to Marine County via the US 101.
Concrete water breakers around the south tower
Looking up the south tower
A Anand Josyulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06942343620432423461noreply@blogger.com3San Francisco, CA, USA37.7749295 -122.419415537.6745235 -122.577344 37.8753355 -122.261487tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2274623222432141323.post-75735936050914721852012-11-09T17:03:00.000-08:002013-01-26T16:33:43.131-08:00PH 603 - The Language of Photography
This course is one of the three introductory courses to the MFA Photography program taken in the first semester. It is meant to bring you up to speed on the essentials of Photography, and provide the necessary foundation to be able understand what is out there and where your work fits in.
The description of the course from the Academy's website speaks for itself - "In this Anand Josyulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06942343620432423461noreply@blogger.com4San Francisco, CA, USA37.7749295 -122.419415537.6745235 -122.577344 37.8753355 -122.261487tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2274623222432141323.post-28168638343014738882012-11-05T15:36:00.000-08:002013-01-26T16:36:22.283-08:00First Semester @ AAU
The first semester at AAU for photography majors in the MFA program has a common set of courses to be completed. Almost all the new students go through the same three courses.
PH 603 - The Language of Photography
PH 612 - The Nature of Photography
GLA 625 - The History of Photography
You have pretty much no choice is taking other photography courses in this semester, unless you Anand Josyulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06942343620432423461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2274623222432141323.post-65505370361534929202012-10-29T19:56:00.000-07:002012-10-29T20:10:01.843-07:00An evening at Sutro Baths
Ruins at Sutro Baths and the Cliff House restaurant.
A large privately owned swimming pool complex built in the late 1800's by a former mayor of SF Adolf Sutro. Shortly after closing due to high maintenance costs, a fire in 1966 destroyed the building. All that remains now are the ruins and broken pathways.
Stair going up and into the trail to Land's End.
Anand Josyulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06942343620432423461noreply@blogger.com0San Francisco, CA, USA37.7749295 -122.419415537.6745235 -122.577344 37.8753355 -122.261487tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2274623222432141323.post-57285637255666011192012-10-24T14:50:00.000-07:002012-10-26T17:17:41.135-07:00Foggy morning on the Embarcadero
At this time of the year, you can find fog most of the days, either at dusk or dawn, creating an eerie and dull atmosphere.
Pier 39 floats empty
Lazy shadows on still waters
Anand Josyulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06942343620432423461noreply@blogger.com0San Francisco, CA, USA37.7749295 -122.419415537.6745235 -122.577344 37.8753355 -122.261487tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2274623222432141323.post-12679371014900029442012-10-23T22:25:00.001-07:002012-10-26T17:16:57.926-07:00Bay Bridge and San Francisco night skyline
A photograph similar to this one is what I had seen a long time back, and it made me go "Wow! Now that's a place I want to be in". After moving to SF and starting the MFA program majoring in Photography, this is the first photograph I went hunting after and created my own version of it. It marks the the beginning of a journey for me. Love it!
A few more Anand Josyulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06942343620432423461noreply@blogger.com0San Francisco, CA, USA37.7749295 -122.419415537.6745235 -122.577344 37.8753355 -122.261487tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2274623222432141323.post-64879288013850635212012-10-02T22:19:00.000-07:002012-11-07T23:00:01.595-08:00Primer to MFA Photography at the Academy of Arts University
Breaking down the MFA Photography program at the Academy of Arts University into smaller digestible pieces, so that you know what it is mostly about. This of-course is no replacement to the abundance of information available at the university's website. It is more from the perspective of a new international grad student. Do add a pinch of salt, and know that as and when I Anand Josyulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06942343620432423461noreply@blogger.com1San Francisco, CA, USA37.7749295 -122.419415537.674535 -122.577344 37.875324 -122.261487tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2274623222432141323.post-66255076879064534662012-09-05T08:45:00.000-07:002012-11-18T16:04:01.763-08:00Leap of Faith
Some major life changes happening here folks. A change of career path from engineering to arts, from software enginnering to photography, from a professional to a student.
The idea to change has been in my head for about two years now, but the impetus wasn't. Its hard to pinpoint which particular reason stood out and made it necessary that I change. If I were to take a Anand Josyulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06942343620432423461noreply@blogger.com2San Francisco, CA, USA37.7749295 -122.419415537.6745235 -122.577344 37.8753355 -122.261487tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2274623222432141323.post-1412607235618088592012-05-23T04:58:00.001-07:002012-05-23T04:58:20.944-07:00Toronto and CouchSurfing
Toronto night skyline
An nine day trip in Toronto, running a half marathon, sightseeing, couchSurfing, travel photography and attending some of the top b-schools around there. What started as a simple interest of attending a half marathon event somewhere out of the of the country turned out to be a potpourri of endeavours half way across the globe, making the whole trip quite Anand Josyulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06942343620432423461noreply@blogger.com0Toronto, ON, Canada43.653226 -79.383184343.469412 -79.69904129999999 43.837039999999995 -79.0673273