Student examples
Student: Jess Sauer
Student: Aisling Housel
Student: Kira Charles
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student: Sean Taggart
student: Ashley Landers
Daphne Kotridis
David Hafer
Jess Kohut
Brad Rosenberger
Sarah lawn
Student: Brett Holliday
The AP 2-D portfolio consists of 3 sections:
• Breadth (12 works showing your range of skill
and creativity using the principles of design)
• Concentration (12 works with a theme)
• Quality (5 works from the above 2 sections;
these are mailed in)
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AP student examples: Leah Eder
Leah Eder’s Concentration Statement:
Words are cumbersome; their stubborn refusal to move the way
I want them to frustrates me. By the time any of my feelings are
on paper or are spoken, they have lost their momentum,
richness and excitement. My concentration is an attempt to
bypass these heavy, unmovable words by visually portraying
feelings, instead of explaining them. My non-objective
photography explores a progression from excitement to dread
using color, repetition and space to portray a true experience of
these emotions. Overall, the abstract photography is a suitable
medium to express ideas, such a feelings, that have no exact
object.
From Leah Eder’s breadth section:
Lexi Muenzel
Theme: subject matter
found along abandoned
railroad tracks.
(nature vs. man)
Tori Miller
Tori Miller’s concentration statement:
• I want to portray how dreams can provide an unconscious form of selfexploration. As dreams progress, your mind introduces unusual, illogical, and
often impossible elements in order to seek out something meaningful. Most of
the time, dreams that provide meaning confound us with their noncohesiveness while illuminating new concepts.
• My concentration begins with some scanner-created photographs that illustrate
the beginning stage of dreams when you realize yourself as who you are. As
dreams progress, who you are in your dream becomes a fragmented reflection
of who you currently are. Later, the apparent relation between who you are in
real life and who you are in your dream becomes increasingly weaker as you
wander further from reality. However, the fragments of yourself are echoes, as
shown later in the concetration, especially in images 10, 11, and 12.
Cory Quigley’s concentration statement:
• I wanted to explore the visual spaces in the urban
setting of Philadelphia. I've always loved being in
the city and I found it was the most exciting place
to take photos, with varying and often fleeting
images everywhere. When I'm in the city I feel
excited but calm, surrounded and isolated, big
and small, all at the same time. I wanted to
convey some of these feelings, if not all at once,
through my photos.
For more AP info see my teacher
webpage and these websites:
• http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/studio2d
• http://uhsdigital.wordpress.com/test/ to see
examples of student work with scoring
guidelines/comments.
Considerations:
• For your concentration think in terms of
creating a series or body of work.
• Consider lighting, composition and
technical aspects of photograph.
• Your careful use of the art elements and
principles of design is paramount.
• Experiment. Brainstorm. Write thoughts and
ideas in visual journal. Collect images that
inspire you and glue them in your journal.
Student
Journal
Examples