Photography and Text by Lilibeth Montero, Copyright 2018 . ABRIL . I didn’t want my images to portray the “traditional” or “typical” representation of love, despair, sadness or happiness. For happiness I did my best to have the model be graceful, carefree and at peace. I thought her laying on her back was a… Continue reading Lilibeth Montero: Abril
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Hilary Lam: It’s Personal
. Photography and Text by Hilary Lam, Copyright 2018 . IT’S PERSONAL . We are now in a time where social presence is at the height of its exposure. Digital interfaces are now overpowering physical ones; internet news publications, video content, and photography are even more accessible and able to be shared by the… Continue reading Hilary Lam: It’s Personal
Victoria Meng: Book Review – Susan Sontag’s, On Photography
Photography and Text by Victoria Meng, Copyright 2018 . Book Review – Susan Sontag’s, On Photography . Raw emotions frozen in time, the essence of an era preserved forever, ecstatic motion immortalized in texture. Empirically, photographs are magical. From light and film, life is created within two dimensions, from detail and abstraction comes an… Continue reading Victoria Meng: Book Review – Susan Sontag’s, On Photography
Matt Garber: I Say We Care
Photography and Text by Matt Garber, Copyright 2018 . I SAY WE CARE . After reading Susan Sontag’s On Photography, the one question that I could not drive from my mind was this: why take a photograph? Specifically, why take one of this subject at this moment? This issue is treated extensively by Sontag,… Continue reading Matt Garber: I Say We Care
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… Continue reading Julia Chun: A Review of Susan Sontag’s Classic, On Photography