Scarlett Frausto

Central Valley Photographer

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Final Photo Project

El Remate and its Gente By Scarlett Frausto

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Some night photos! 

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unedited 

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Some new recent final photos!

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I have no idea why these do not flip to the correct way when uploading. Tumblr is frustrating me. ANYWAYS, my sister in law is pregnant! how exciting, I’m going to be an aunty!

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Some babyshower pictures of the future mama! 

Tried flash at a party!

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Gritty 1980's NYC and the Glorious Intuition of Richard Sandler

"Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures taken. You’re better off, I think, letting your intuition completely run wild... and even when you find yourself in a situation where the subject matter is rea

This series of photos and small insight in “Gritty 1980′s NYC and the Glorious Intuition” by Richard Sandler has given me a different approach to street photography. I personally do not do street photography but my final project is on a public area and capturing the people in it so Sandler gives great advice on how to go on taking pictures out in public. The photographer Richard Sandler is all about following one’s intuition on taking the shots, he states how hard it is when you’ve found yourself an interesting subject that would do for a good image but taking it is another thing. When people are moving it is a lot harder to get that image because you will automatically try to orchestrate how you want to take it but since things are constantly moving in the streets, its harder to capture what you were hoping to get. Instead, it’s better responding in the moment, living in the moments, as to speak: Taking the image right then and there.

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Alberto.

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I began this series during my AIRIE residency in the Everglades in December 2012. It draws inspiration from a ritual described in The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald. In Holland in the 1600s, during the wake of the deceased, it was customary to cover all mirrors, landscape paintings and portraits in the home with cloths. It was believed this would make it easier for the soul to leave the body and subdue any temptations for it to stay in this world.

Marjory’s World series by Rebecca Reeve is one of the most creative, yet smooth and calm photographs. Her images of nature as the background with the drape clothes hanging on the sides as a frame helps locate the focal point of the series on nature. It’s as if I was looking out the window, a comfortable place, and admiring Earth’s beauty. They are simple images but wow are they gorgeous.

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D’Amato is a really cool photographer I just found while browsing through some published work and his images caught my eye since I opened the website. His photography of people and transmitting the work in a manner that allows the audience to see the struggles these communities in Chicago undergo is fascinating. His book “Barrio” and “We Shall” were some of his work that was published as a book back in the 2000′s so it gives a modern perspective of the photographer engaged in culture and street photography. It was interesting to learn how he had discovered these poverty stricken towns in Chicago by traveling across the country four times! His photos accomplishes in capturing the reality by its amount of context intertwined in the portraits and landscapes. He eventually went back and currently lives there photography brown and black communities in Chicago. 

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Swap Meet and its Gente

Remate series-

For my final photo project, I am continuing my swap meet series of photos of vendors, of customers, and anything that I find intriguing while in this place. Besides having a very personal connection with the remates and its gente, I want to share some stories from some of the people here, to bring more awareness of people’s personal struggles. I would like to show my audience the ambiance and the community bonding that brings this place for others, it is where a Latino community comes together and feels welcomed, a place at ease to spend their mornings or evenings alongside family and friends. A place that shares a little piece of their culture, of their country. The photos that will be taken to complete the project will be using natural light during the swap meet in broad day time, while I will also include others with artificial light using my flash during night swap meets. Being social and friendly will be a strategy to get to know the people I take a picture of. Although it is a public place, I will try to shoot without permission and if I see they are uneasy about my action, I will explain what it is for!

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Now More Than Ever, Brandon Stanton Makes People Feel Less Alone

The creator of Humans of New York went global in his new best seller. Now that we have to stay local, his perspective is more galvanizing than ever.

One of the photographers who I stumbled upon in the middle of my high school photography journey was Brandon Stanton for his “Human” collection books on portraits and their stories. Although this pandemic might’ve stopped him from continuing on interviewing random people on the streets from different countries, it hasn’t stopped him entirely, but now he is doing it online. I found this very heartwarming and fascinating, for it strengthens one’s social skills which any amateur photographer usually lacks in order to succeed. I will be conducting a Portuguese project that involves video recording an interview for the Central Valley archives in Portuguese culture. This should be very interesting. Anything that will excuse me from conducting a research essay HA. 

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So the photographer Joel D. Levinson became an interest for me as an influence for my theme project. I thought it was so awesome how his photos were put up on the contemporary museum about a couple of his swap meet series, its made me want to shoot a very familiar place.

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