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Posted on January 20, 2012 – Copyright 2012

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Lingerie: Victoria's Secret

Posted on January 1, 2012

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……….Elizabeth currently studies English at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She hopes to pursue the field of Public Relations upon her graduation. She sought out modeling at the end of May 2011, and currently spends her free time partaking in shoots. She was signed to Reinhard Agency in Philadelphia in August of 2011. She hopes to continue modeling full-time upon graduation and model internationally.

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Her interests include volunteering at the Camden County Animal Shelter in Blackwood, NJ. She specifically nurtures felines in preparation for adoption. Other interests include: tutoring elementary age children, fashion, reading the classics, baking, traveling, and attending cultural events in the Philadelphia area.

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Silf-Portrait 2011

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Tony Ward

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……….I would like to thank all of the contributors, friends and colleagues who have supported TWS over the course of an extraordinary year of growth. You have made this a very special year for the audience that follows TWS. Your contributions have been most inspiring. I look forward to the coming year with great enthusiasm, anticipation, and the expectation that our audience will continue to grow and expand – well in to the new year and years to come.

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I would like to especially thank my colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania for providing an exceptional venue to share information, and most importantly, the students who have taught me the joy and importance of teaching. Happy New Year!

Grace DeMann

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Grace DeMann

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……….When I first went to Occupy, it was completely by accident. My friends and I had gone to Chinatown to eat during Fall break, and on the way back we decided to take SEPTA’s 15th Street station, right under City Hall. What we found surprised all of us: protesting, music, dancing, smiles, and lots of signs. Some people invited us into their drum circle while other places had free snacks. I remember distinctly that my friends and I were confused, what exactly were these people protesting? The signs didn’t all go together, some were unrealistic or even illogical. The people didn’t seem to care though, they were passionate as ever, thinking they were going to make a change, even if no one agreed or knew what it was.

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Grace DeMann

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In a way, they did make a change. They made people notice they were suffering, but in terms of actual accomplishments, they didn’t do much of anything. When I returned to Occupy to take pictures, I was extremely disappointed. Gone were the smiles, drum circles and free snacks. In their place were cardboard tattered signs, trash, and random tents. It looked almost like a refugee camp, and in a way, it was. Most of the activists had left, and the homeless had moved in, taking the opportunity to Occupy for safety.

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Grace DeMann

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Trying to find an aesthetically pleasing picture was difficult because there was so much chaos, but I tried to have a balance between chaotic and simple images. At one point, I saw two men in suits with briefcases walking by and scrambled to take a picture, which ended up being one of my favorites. It shows what I think the true purpose of Occupy was trying to show: there are people suffering while those who can help just walk by and don’t care.

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Grace DeMann

About The Author: Grace DeMann is a freshman enrolled in the School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania. Class of 2014

Bob Shell: Heidi

Posted on December 20, 2011 by Bob Shell

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……….I’m enclosing a recent photo of me. Not for its artistic value, which is nil, but because I had to explain to the man who takes the pictures here how to set the camera. It was a little Kodak point and shoot digital with minimal features, but with the ability to make some basic settings. As I was holding the camera and showing him how to set it so the flash would fire and he would not get ghastly green, heavily shadowed photos under the fluorescent lights here, it suddenly hit me: This is the first camera of any sort that I have had in my hands in four and a half years! That thought brought tears to my eyes, and does again as I write this. Photography was my life, and it is an obscene form of mental torture to deprive me of it. I think that bothers me more than anything else about what was done to me by the system.

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Bob Shell: Pocahontas State Correctional Center, 11-11-2011

About The Author: Bob Shell is a professional photographer, author and former editor in chief of Shutterbug Magazine. He is currently serving a 35 year sentence at Pocahontas State Correctional Center, Pocahontas, Virginia for involuntary manslaughter for the death of one of his models, Marion Franklin. He is currently working on his appeal.
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Editor’s Note: Bob Shell was recently visited in prison by TWS associates to assist with his appeal process. To learn more about the case log on to www.BobShellTruth.com.

Gina Cotter

About The Photographer: Gina Cotter is enrolled in the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania. Class of 2012.

Occupy Philadelphia

Posted on December 5, 2011 by Kaitlyn Levesque

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……….I feel as if I’ve been following the Occupy movement as intensively as the average American, which is to say I hear about it and read the occasional article on various occupy happenings but couldn’t concisely tell you what the movement is about or what their demands are. And upon consideration, I’m really not sure if anyone can give a concise answer to those questions, because to the best of my understanding the movement has grown so fiercely that each individual person brings new grievances to the table and is unitedly taking an individual stance against whatever they think is wrong. All of this being said the Occupy movement is starting to falter in momentum. Numbers have thinned, coverage has lessened, and the latest news is focusing more on the misdoings of police officers than the goals and progress of the movement itself.

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Occupy Philadelphia

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I wandered into City Hall, the home base of the Occupy Philadelphia movement on a Sunday afternoon and found the whole scene rather anticlimactic and sorely disappointing. It was past noon and yet barely a dozen people were moving about; the tent city that had been erected weeks prior looked filthy and deserted. I walked, I observed, I read, I listened, and I ultimately documented. The movement is fading; they lacked organization and respect. There are still some people genuinely concerned and invested in this movement, but for every legitimate occupier there seemed to be someone who was just bumming along for the ride.

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Occupy Philadelphia

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Occupy Philadelphia

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This what I wanted to illustrate, the diminishing voice of the movement, the genuinely concerned citizens with a message to deliver barely seeming to keep their voice a float in an overwhelming sea of an off putting and massive mess. The signs shows a message trying to be delivered, but they are surrounded by filth and little else, for the signs now outnumber the people who are still valid members of the movement.

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Occupy Philadelphia

About The Author: Kaitlyn Levesque is a sophomore enrolled in the College of the University of Pennsylvania. Class of 2014 – Copyright 2011

Fay Fussell: Camden, New Jersey 2011

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Fay Fussell

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I grew up in the City of Camden which at one time was a vibrant, bustling town; I would see men returning to their homes after their shifts were over at the factory or shipyard, their tin lunch buckets swinging and happy smiles on their faces especially after a side stop at Bruten bar.

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Witnessing a city sliding into decline is emotional and sad to watch. It is especially sad when there seems to be no help for the city or its people. The death of Camden has been to me like the loss of a friend.

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Fay Fussell: Camden, New Jersey 2011

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All though I am not a soap box kind of person I still feel deeply about the inner city blight that has not only affected Camden but happens to be the plight of many, many cities across the nation. I find that through photography I can give testimony and reveal the sadness inside of me, probe my deepest emotions and at the same time make a social statement. Pictures are more convincing than any statement I could vocalize from a soap box, for there is nothing more articulate than what is captured through the lens of a camera. The human element has not been able to manipulate or change things around once the film has captured the scene. The images are there, no pointing of fingers, no right or wrong just the bare facts of stark silent reality.

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The structures in the assignment were chosen because they were part of memories that took me back to a free none threatening past. Also the buildings were chosen because they fascinated me in their deterioration, in their yawning desperation of broken windows and crumbling exteriors along with the scream of hopelessness that seem to generate from their skeletons. In selecting the buildings I wanted my peers to see and perhaps feel empathy for the death of a city.

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For this series I also found relief from the depression of disintegrating buildings, inner city blight and poverty by investigating other areas in Camden city and Philadelphia. The places were free from the invading poverty and chaos and created areas of peace in pockets of the cities.

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With a new interest in Photography I also found myself more comfortable and confident handling the camera and viewed it as an instrument that was able to articulate what I was unable to. I find I also am beginning to frame in my mind shots that I would never have seen or even thought of and arranging them in my mind as the framework for possible images on film.

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Fay Fussell: Camden, New Jersey 2011

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I am not writing to say I have had a sudden epiphany as a photographer and am able to verbalize in many words about the intricacies of the scenes, but to say that there has been a shift in my thinking about the imagery in Photography. Because of my shift in thinking, I have the desire to continue to learn and improve my skill in this art.

About The Author: Fay Fussell: “that as a person born and raised in Camden and now living in another town, the memory of Camden’s better days are forever embedded in my mind.” Copyright 2011