Prompt
· English
View through an open doorway from the next room, the dark wooden door frame forming a rectangular border around the picture, of a curious 8-year-old boy of East African descent standing small among giant everyday objects in a room where the furniture has been scaled up to a forest-like scale. The boy has warm caramel-brown skin and thick coarse straight dark brown hair cut to shoulder length and tied back in a ponytail, wearing a colorful dinosaur T-shirt and shorts, leaning in with a look of wonder as he looks toward a house-sized teddy bear and a towering stack of plates. A crumb from a giant sandwich lies on the polished floor near his feet, and a toy car that looks like a vehicle next to the baby sits nearby, while a huge button on the floor nearby adds to the surreal scale. The 35mm lens at a conversational distance keeps the boy on a strong diagonal from one corner to the opposite one, creating depth through the doorway. Strings of small warm bulbs overhead hang in the air, casting many tiny points of light and soft pools of illumination on the surfaces below. Shot on a medium format film camera with shallow depth of field, showing distinct grain, focus falloff on the background objects, and a warm color cast from the overhead bulbs.
