The sun sets behind Loftus Versfeld Stadium in South Africa. A bicycle leans against a yellow building with red shutters in Tuscany. A girl lies outdoors on a trampoline, her shadow projected onto the ground beneath her. These images and many others appear in an exhibit of photography by students in Danielle Picard-Sheehan’s Alternative Photographic Processes and Digital Imaging classes at George School. The exhibit will be on view in Walton Center Gallery until November 15, 2010.

The exhibit includes twelve color posters by the Digital Imaging students, each of which captures a specific location where the photographer spent time during the summer. Each student shot a 250-image photo essay in his or her location of choice, and then edited the photos into a book during the school year, while selecting one image for the poster.

Sam Lee ’12 created a photo montage of architectural elements in his home city of Seoul, South Korea, as well as New York City and Washington DC. The result is a study of round and square shapes. Flat, round, shingle-like objects on the surface of a building appear above the multicolored rings of a planetary model. Beside these images, white blocks repeat like stairs in a wall, while rows of square windows fill the curved face of another building.

“When I go to a location that I haven’t visited before, I always bring my camera and look for interesting patterns and shapes, and capture the images from different points of view,” said Sam.

Other Digital Imaging poster subjects include a man sitting outside on Fifth Avenue in New York City; three men at work on scaffolding outside a building in Chongqing, China; a house reflected in water in Ventnor, New Jersey; and a traditional garden with pavilions in Suzhou City, China.

The exhibit also includes thirteen black-and-white contact sheets by the students in Alternative Photographic Processes. The students were assigned to use a whole roll of film to shoot a single scene. Each student photographed a scene from left to right, top to bottom, in pieces that fit together to form one larger image when printed as a contact sheet in seven rows of five photos.

For her contact sheet, Anneke Solomon ’11 photographed her two sisters standing side-by-side. The effect is an image that appears to be one girl standing in an enclosed space, with light beaming upwards towards her face.

“Each photograph is a part of a sister’s body, and the pieces are assembled together so that it creates a girl who is both of my sisters,” said Anneke. “The piece is very personal. It speaks of my sisters’ and my weaknesses and our search for identity. It reveals both our true selves and our masks.” Anneke is in her second year of Alternative Photographic Processes, which she is taking towards the higher-level visual arts exam for her International Baccalaureate (IB) diploma.

Views depicted on the other contact sheets include logs stacked in a stone building, a large fountain in a city, a man in an artist’s studio, a girl sitting outside a shed, a bathroom in a house, a car parked outside a barn, a room filled with decorative mirrors and figurines, two girls standing on swings, a creek in a forest, and a cityscape.

The photography show is one of eight exhibitions organized by the George School Arts Department for the current academic year. The Arts Department offers twenty-eight arts courses in ten different visual and performing arts forms, with Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate course options.