- This photo I beleive shows a fun and energetic part of myself that I don't show very often. Usually I am too stressed and worried about a multitude of things to for example be easily distracted by things like a bubble maker.
- This photo means showing people not who I am but who I want to be in the near future. I often times feel like I grew up too fast and I want to slow down and enjoy things like moments like this before I am too old and I become the age I try to act.
- I'd like somebody to look at this picture and see that although I am older and I look older than my age and I act older than my age that I want to have a second chance in a way or even a moment to experience things I never could.
- In this photograph I've used my eyes to tell my story. I have heterochromia which is a rare condition of a cell that has changed the color of my eyes for the rest of my life. I want you to see that I am as rare and beautiful as my condition and I am more than just a person with an eye you like to take pictures of and stare at, I am a person and not a tourist attraction.
- This symbol represents the way I feel when people marvel at my eye and don't care about who I am or what my personality type is. Sometimes I am stopped on the street for my eyes and nobody asks my name or how my day is going, they just ask about my eye. This makes me feel less like a person and more like an object. All I am to people is the color of my eye.
- I want somebody to see this picture and not think "oh look at how cool that eye is". I want somebody to see this picture and see me past my eye for once. I want somebody to see who I really am and not just marvel at my appearance.
- I used the expression on my face as my symbol of my depression. I took a picture in front of one of Oregon's most beautiful pleasures where many people would smile and feel joy in seeing. In this photograph I am turned away and I am not smiling.
- This shows that I am constantly profoundly depressed. I could be doing anything in the world yet there is always a voice in the back of my head telling me all the reasons I should not be happy. I do not want to feel like this yet this is the feeling that has followed me all through my life well before high school.
- I want somebody to look at this image and see that there is more behind my smile and there is more to me than you could see at first glance. I want people to realise that there are many things they do not know about me.
- I have chosen an unfocused black and white photo. I want this photo to show that my happiness and my smile is not everlasting and it is not honest.
- All of my happiness is temporary and is not shown when I am alone. I am always alone and I have never smiled while I was alone. I do feel happiness and at times my happiness loses control but whenever I am happy there is a voice telling me that it is only temporary which it is.
- I want somebody to look at this photograph and see that my smile isn't real and that I struggle to keep it on my face most of the time. I want somebody to understand who I am and how I feel and not judge me for that fact that I cannot stay happy, I can't control it.
- I have only made my face black and white in this photo. I want to show that I hide my emotions from everybody.
- Every morning I put on a different face, I have bright hair and a big smile and desirable features but that is not who I really am. I do not show in the way that I look that I am sad. I have spent my entire life pretending to be so many different people because I am afraid that one day somebody might realize that it is complete bullshit and see the real me.
- I want somebody to see this photograph and see that who I am on the outside is not who I am on the inside.
- I made this photo black and white and I covered my face while I was crying to show my vulnerability. I am one of the most vulnerable people I know, yet I hide it.
- I hide when I show my emotions yet I am a deeply vulnerable person. Sometimes I break down due to how much is built up inside of my and in the end I realize I have nobody sop I hide it all. I do not feel close enough to a single person to show them who I really am and how I really feel due to the fear that they will leave. I fully beleive that if people knew how I really felt and who I really was, they would not want to speak to me again.
- I want somebody to see thing picture and see that there is more to me than I let on to beleive and sometimes I want to not feel so alone.
What brought you to photo one?
I wanted to learn everything there is to know about photography and I wanted to create beautiful things with a simple photograph.
What have you leaned about photography?
I've leaned that there is more to pictures than just pictures. I've learned that every picture should be seen by more than just what you see, pictures should be thought about. I have learned that behind almost every picture there is a message.
What has photography helped you learn about yourself?
Photography has helped me learn that I can make something beautiful and meaningful and show my emotions and feelings and desires through the pictures I take.
What was a challenge this semester?
Trying to create something with meaning instead of just creating something because it was assigned was a struggle for me.
What was your best/favorite work piece?
Infrared photos, because it was so interesting to see that you could show people that there is more to the things you see every day than what you see. That in fact there is a world of colors beyond our eye sight.
What project would you choose to re-do or do-over? why?
I would re-do my scavenger hunt photos. At the beginning of the semester photography was just photos to me, it didn't have any meaning, so I would go back and try to make those photos mean something.
What would you tell a future photo one student?
Make everything mean something. You're capturing a moment of a crazy, fast moving, and unforgiving life. So just because you're taking pictures for a class, make it mean something. Try to make your mark and show people that everything you do has more dimentions than just two and your photgraphs are art and should show everything.
