Julia Chun: A Review of Susan Sontag’s Classic, On Photography

. Photography and Text by Julia Chun, Copyright 2018 . A Review of Susan Sontag’s Classic, On Photography . Throughout the book, I felt that Sontag’s messages were quite heavy, as if she was warning me about the weight my act of photographing could have. She described the act of taking a picture as an … Read more

Victoria Meng: Artist Statement

  Photography and Artist Statement by Victoria Meng, Copyright 2018 . October 2011. I could contain the world within 8 megapixels with my first point and shoot camera: a small purple Nikon CoolPix. I was off on a school trip and my parents wanted me to capture every moment. After a week in Washington D.C., … Read more

Karen Liao: Homecoming

.   Photography and Text by Karen Liao, Copyright 2018 . HOMECOMING . Throughout the semester, I have been exploring the topics of physical and mental health in different populations through my photos, and I wanted to bring all this together in a project involving a community most familiar to me—Penn. As students, we are … Read more

Alberto Jimenez: Robotics

  Photography and Text by Alberto Jimenez, Copyright 2018 . ROBOTICS . As a student in Robotics, I appreciate the changes technology brings to society. I have seen the world change as we continuously develop new ways to get things done. One of my favorite time periods in history is the Industrial Revolution, because I … Read more

Diary: Maggie. Portrait of the Day

.     Photography and Text by Tony Ward, Copyright 2018. . Portrait of the Day I met Maggie back in the 1990’s during a period when I was photographing a lot of young women in my hometown of Philadelphia.  Maggie is the daughter of my old friend; Neil Stein the visionary restaurenteur who transformed … Read more