Photography
4/13/11
Response to Photos
The photo was actually hard to take because I took a lot of things into consideration. It is extremely hard to capture an experience, or multiple experiences through one photo. This was also difficult because I learned a lot through the interview so I didn’t know which experience to try to symbolize. I felt like there are so many things I can capture so I was in a tight spot. The first thing I tried to take note of was how to best capture the emotion of the homeless guy`s story.
I felt as if I couldn’t capture the emotion of the setting in the daytime, so I waited until it was dark out to make the photo. The angle and the whole arrangement of the photo was thought because I knew I would have to get some type of lighting to make the subject of my photo look somewhat visible.
At first I didn’t know what I would want to capture because I already had a location in mind. There was a small door near my building that belongs to the Housing department. Besides that door there is a staircase, and on the floor there is a lot of trash. I feel like this symbolizes homelessness the best. The dirtiness would symbolize all the mistakes that a homeless person makes in life and the door is the gateway to the new life that they were meant to live.
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