What's scarlet, studying, and gray all over?

What's Scarlet, studying, and gray all over?
-An OSU college student! :)

Instead of documenting a place, I wanted to document an idea. I wanted to document one student studying. I wanted to see if there were any characteristics to how she placed her books or how she sat that would be uniquely thought of as a "college student". I wanted the items to show the relationship to the student and the less glamorous part of being a student.

All of the objects make up the idea, but they are not a student. I wanted to show this relationship through the use of red in the black and white pictures. Through the frame and colors, I wanted to highlight the importance of the correlation between the objects and the person. I also wanted the viewer's eye to be drawn to the red in the student's hoodie and the other objects. This was to show her posture, body language, and to restate the idea of being a student. I wanted to show the floor and the house to show the entire life of a student. While shooting I began to see the books start to become the furniture and the laptop became the table. The backpack was an added decoration. Her objects took over their surroundings and made the space into a studying paradise. I wanted her array of items to represent the idea of being a student, as well as the student, herself.

I made sure to take candid pictures and I did not pose or ask her to move.
 It was important for me to have her think that I was just messing with my camera, because I did not want shots of a smiling person. I wanted a sleep deprived, studying teenager and her stuff. I saw how she dumped her books out of her book bag and then neatly stacked it up. Her book bag was left abandoned and her legs were hidden under her over sized hoodie. I wanted a realistic picture of a focused college student in her normal habitat.