Journey of Hope
Photograph by Don Bartlett
If you were to create a narrative without researching this photo or looking at the title, for this photo what would it be?
How does the focus in the picture affect your reading of the image?
If you were to remove the girls expression, what is the expression on the boys face?
What is the overall emotion of this picture?
Don Bartlett captures images of poverty and people as they strive to achieve better lives by emigrating. Does knowing this about the photographer change how you see the picture?
Earthquake in Haiti
Photograph by Carol Guzy, Nikki Kahn and Ricky Carioti
Here we have another blurred edge picture with a boy and a girl. Is the blurring used for the same affect?
What is the emotion in this picture?
Why might it be important to produce art about tragic things?
This photograph was taken after the Earthquake in Haiti in 2011. This is an image at the collapsed school. Many students died at their desks. How can we use art to help/impact the world?
Follow up:
Research and write a paragraph about 5 social constructs, natural elements, or political policies that affect you personally.
From those five choose one issue to research further into. Make seven thumbnails for artworks that address that issue. After discussing with the teacher, and choosing your best idea from the thumbnails make an artwork.
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