My first photography exhibition took place in the lobby of my school. Due to a low budget, I could not use too much materials, and used available school utilities when applicable.

The exhibition took on the element of light. Most of my photogrphs utilize central backside lighting, where the light source is on the size of the lens, contrary to the side of the photographer. Most of the photographs concentrated on how light seeped through the object being photographed, not how they reflect off the objects. In this exhibition I tried to catch that trait by using backlight photography. Backlight photography, while also a phrase to describe photography with a frontal light source, is also a kind of exhibition method where the image is printed on transparent film and illuminated with backlights. The conventional method, the ones used in metro or bus stop advertisement, uses Duratran printing, printing on Duratran transparency film and placing them in 'lightboxes' equipped with multiple LED lights. To achieve the simliar result on a low budget, I took to using the printing method utilized on for-glass stickers, where the image is printed on cheap PVC films. I then made black boxes from black foam boards, and put them on eye-height to be viewed by passersby. When viewed, it seemed like looking into a tunnel with the image illuminated by a back light source. The light used was natural sunlight, which had the additional effect of changing the image with the change of time. Such change, as well as the backward illumination, was much mentioned in the comments that people gave via the google docs available in front of the exhibition.