Captain Teddy Bear

This teddy bear series was my final for black and white photography class last semester. I have to make a portfolio website for my bfa seminar so I have to compile a bunch of stuff and I finally got around to scanning these.

The idea was that I believe everyone has at some point lost an inanimate friend, but when you are a kid they aren't inanimate to you, so when I lost my teddy bear long ago I felt guilty and could only imagine what happened to him after I left . . . he wasn't there when I went back for him . . .

So I took a teddy bear to the buried in winter park and did a photoshoot that nearly froze my fingers off. They were done in film and developed in the darkroom, then toned in sepia toner.