visual arts pORTFOLIO
Including photography, visual merchandising, graphic design, film, and fine art.
photography | 2024
Develop skills in studio photography, high contrast image making, portraiture, concept building, and Photoshop.
photography | “the crisis is suburbia” 2024
This series aims to capture the splintering reality of suburban living on young queer voices. It portrays our character right before the fury of the storm, torn between wanting to feel at home, while home doesn’t accept them. Developing my skills in shooting on new locations, working with natural lighting and natural environments, strobes and external light equipment, and documenting complex themes.
Models: Shannon Marsolais and Grace Madey
photography | “How NOT TO USE A CHAIR” 2023
“HOW NOT TO USE A CHAIR” is an object study series dedicated to probing the usability of a simple object. I wanted to inquire on what makes an object practical and how I could evade and expand upon those uses. This series furthered my skillset in the fundamentals of photography, composition, collage, layering, multiple exposures, and merging research with art making.
Model: Shannon Ross
photography | 2023
Advance my experience in group portraiture, shooting outdoors, Photoshop and Lightroom, direction, and building comfortable professional relationships with models.
Visual merchandising | 2023
Using Photoshop to create a detailed and clean mock-up rendering of a visual merchandising window display. Progressing my skills in product displays, brand identity assets, quality design planning, and Photoshop editing, blending, and editing.
Window display graphics and concept for strategic branding and pitch project, “TRIC EXIT”.
Window display graphics and concept design for “Miu Miu.”
Graphic Design | Posters 2023
Practice experimenting with poster design, graphic design activism, symbols as communication, typography, composition, color, and iterative processes.
photography | “sELF” 2022
“SELF” is a self portrait series exploring how to take a self portrait that truly encapsulates the artist. I wanted to use my love of color, horror/gore, surrealism, and multiple exposure photography to create portraits that I felt set me apart as a unique artist and individual. Includes an investigation into experimental editing and Photoshop hard skills, self portraiture, color theory, composition, layering, multiple exposures, and collage/layout formatting.
photography | “Lite spots” 2022
“LITE SPOTS” rebels against the typical bikini photoshoot recipe seen in commercial photography for decades. Adding colorful lights, dark makeup, and heavy jewelry, the model is obstructed from forced hyper-femininity and instead acts as a masculine, strong force. Evolving my beginner level skills in portraiture, color, filtered lens, composition, direction, and photo editing/retouching.
Model: Laurel Murty
PHOTOGRAPHY | 2022
This work documents the beginning of finding my voice as a photographer, portraiture, photo editing, Photoshop, digital tools and equipment, and model direction. Establishing my voice as an artist, creator, and image maker.
Magazines | 2022
Cultivate experience in InDesign, graphic design, typography, creative writing, experimental photography, print design, storytelling, book-binding, collage, and portrait photography.
“SUFFOCATION” 2022.
The project was guided by the intention of investigating a word in depth including what it literally means, how it could mean, what it looks like, and how it plays with people, relationships, and everyday life. This project includes all original images.
Model: Alana Bassett
“Untitled” 2022.
A small untitled zine project created from a collection of collages from found images, textures, and objects.
FILM | 2022
Experimentation with Photoshop animation, using stop motion techniques to create moving images.
Experimenting with video, photo montage, stop-motion animation, story writing, casting, direction, editing, Premiere Pro, Photoshop, collage, and sound design.
“DESIRE” is a film shot in the style of photo romans consisting of rapid stills in sequence to tell a story.
The film follows the story of a young man chasing money and success in the big city. He never seems to be able to catch up to the money that he seems to have dangling in front of him, until the end sequence.
Shot, edited, styled, and produced by Ella Pruitt.
Model: Milo Valentino
“DESIRE” 2022.
“IMAGINARY WORLD” 2022.
“IMAGINARY WORLD” is a film shot in the style of photo montage which a collage of found and original film clips complied together to have a montage effect.
This film engages with a variety of found footage in a way that is suspenseful, creative, and unique in its storytelling. It plays with the chaos of film creation, and the viewer’s understanding of exactly what really is going on with the character.
Shot, edited, styled, and produced by Ella Pruitt.
Model: Luc Lapierre
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FINE ART | 2018 - 2021
Harnessing years of experience in collage, photo montage, acrylic painting, drawing and sketching, technical arts, paint markers, charcoal, colored pencils, oil pastels, and many other fine art mediums. Understanding my style as an artist and creative, why learning and mastering the fundamental skills of art and image making.
