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Photography, 2024 Paulina Vo-Griffin Photography, 2024 Paulina Vo-Griffin

Beautiful Day in Golden Gate Park

In this captivating photograph, the canvas of the sky is painted in a brilliant blue, creating a vivid backdrop for the idyllic scene. A young, carefree spirit pedals a bike in playful circles around a central water fountain, their laughter echoing in the air. The fountain, a timeless centerpiece, sprays refreshing droplets, catching the sunlight and casting a sparkling allure. People find respite on sturdy benches, engaging in conversations, or basking in a peaceful atmosphere. The verdant trees in the background form a lush backdrop, their leaves rustling in the gentle breeze. The vibrant greenery contrasts harmoniously with the clear, blue sky, creating a picturesque natural beauty.

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Photography, 2024 Paulina Vo-Griffin Photography, 2024 Paulina Vo-Griffin

End?

The piece "End?" was photographed on a Canon DSLR camera, utilizing a UV Filter as a makeshift pink gel. I used negative space to make the central element of the photo, a street sign showing the word "END" and several stray spray paint marks, stand out. My intention with this work was to show the beauty of everyday urban environments, particularly those explicitly considered ugly. Graffiti is largely viewed as vandalism and a mar on neat, clean neighborhoods, but even so, its artistic merit is recognized by part of the public when featured as a cohesive artwork. However, leftover paint marks such as the ones on this sign are just "trashy." "End?" challenges this perception by forcing the audience to focus on this street sign, paint marks and all, and realize how the grungy chaos and explicit lack of cohesiveness creates artwork, and even more than that, a question: the end of what? A dark dash of black paint turns the sign’s warning of a terminating road to an unfinished sentence, “END-”, leaving the audience to fill in the blanks. Was this “vandalism” intentional? Was it previously part of a larger artwork? What happened to it? What will happen to this artwork in the future? Will someone else come along with a can of spray paint and transform it again? How might “End?” itself evolve from its current state? “End?” challenges the forms art takes and questions what the end of an artwork’s life means – or if they ever do.

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Photography, 2024 Paulina Vo-Griffin Photography, 2024 Paulina Vo-Griffin

Shoes

I love this image because shoes can say a lot about someone. All these people walking by you can look at their shoes; new , old, fancy, basic etc. It says a lot about a person. That's what I like about this picture. It leaves their lifestyle up to the viewer's interpretation just based on shoes...

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Photography, 2024 Paulina Vo-Griffin Photography, 2024 Paulina Vo-Griffin

The Face of a Friend

In photography class we had a project where we needed to take portraits and at school the next day in math class the lighting was good because of the classrooms big windows. Also the sun does not shine into the classroom so there is no glare. After I took the photo I rolled and developed the film. Afterwards I made a contact sheet which is where you can see all your photos and chose which photos you want to enlarge. I decided to enlarge this photo in the darkroom because it looked good and I wanted to give it as a gift to my friend.

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Photography, 2024 Paulina Vo-Griffin Photography, 2024 Paulina Vo-Griffin

Sunset Blue

This photo was taken at one of my favorite places in the world called Croatia in a town called Seline east of Italy and I get to visit every summer which is a big gift to me. every time we leave It's like a small part of me that broke off due to we are leaving friends and family behind. I try to take as many photos as possible to bring back to California so I can bring as much back of Croatia to home.

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Photography, 2024 Paulina Vo-Griffin Photography, 2024 Paulina Vo-Griffin

Black and White

This piece of art was made to convey a moment about how to be confident and how to express yourself through photography.I decided to use the background of a living room for this photo since extraordinary objects don't always need to be photographed in unique settings. I use vibrance, exposure, color balance, and blur tools to produce this artwork after editing the photo to portray more emotions in black and white.

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Hidden Life

I created this picture in San Francisco with a cell phone while I was there with my family. While we were walking, I saw this garden, and I took a picture of it because my thought of San Francisco was that there are not many plants there. But the part of it where we walked was full of them, and I wanted to record this. I edited this picture in Photoshop. I made it lighter, because when I took it, it was already dark, so the picture was also dark. I also made it black and white because the colors just didn’t fit it well enough.

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Photography, 2024 Paulina Vo-Griffin Photography, 2024 Paulina Vo-Griffin

911 Memorial

I took this photo at the 911 memorial in New York. While I was there it really shows how 911 still affects the world to this day, people were crying over possible loved ones or friends that were lost. This photo means a lot to me for that reason. While taking this photo I really tried to get a balance and reflection in the water.

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Photography, 2024 Paulina Vo-Griffin Photography, 2024 Paulina Vo-Griffin

Sitting in the Sun

I took this photo in the spur of the moment, capturing the special relationship between my sister and our next doors neighbors cat. The cat had snuck into our house and enjoys our company and our leftovers from dinner. I saw the shadows and immediately thought of the assignment from my photography class. My teacher had made us keep our eyes out for shadows, textures and reflections and my eyes had been trained to spot these in my everyday life.

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Photography, 2024 Paulina Vo-Griffin Photography, 2024 Paulina Vo-Griffin

An End to a Memory

This photo was taken at the San Francisco Marina, and the night that I took the photo I’d been helping my dad work on a boat with some of his friends, I was exhausted, and just hanging out with my sister because she’d just met us there. When we were walking back to the car, I saw how pretty the layout could be if I just took a photo, so I did. I initially took this photo because I wanted to capture how pretty the sunset reflecting off of the water is, and then with all of the boats, it creates a sort of symmetry to it as well. I love how it came out, It has some texture and a place for your eyes to follow in a way too. I also like how there’s not much going on in the photo, but there’s a lot to look at. Not only do I love this photo, but it’s also a reminder of all the great and fun times I’ve had at the marina, and it makes me want to go there even more. Something that inspires me as an artist is reflections and water. It’s such a cool thing to capture, and there are so many things you can do with it too. With water, you can change the texture, have reflections, change the color, and so many more things. Reflections have the same type of thing, where you can distort, and find new perspectives for things.

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Photography, 2024 Paulina Vo-Griffin Photography, 2024 Paulina Vo-Griffin

Generations

Over school break, I went to Israel to visit my family in the midst of the current conflict. My entire mothers side of the family was there and it was my little cousins (Left) birthday. We went to the beach and tried to escape the chaos so I decided to bring my camera to photograph a break inside of my break.

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