Erika Larsen: The Native

Erika Larsen

Larsen specializes in Native American; her photography reflects the natural elements the Native Americans are still attached too. One of her main focuses are on Native Americans that are connected with the horses; the interesting connection between the modern day tack and native American traditional wear connects to the culture of the Native American traditions living in a modern day society and the mix, border thinking.

Kitra Cahana: The World Captured

Kitra Cahana

Multicultural Kitrag grew up in Canada and Sweden produces photography that is both spiritually and focuses on the body. Kitra emerges herself within the community she documents, which includes a Venezuelan cult, homeless teenagers, Israeli households, and poverty levels in suburbs of Houston.

Its an important part of understanding your subjects; to submerge yourself within the area and truly represent. This is especially important in documentary. Although most of the time there is bias plays in many documentaries, its better, in my opinion, to let the audience do what they want with the facts.

Mike Brodie AKA Polariod Kid

Mike Brodie

Originally from Arizona, Brodie never received formal training in photography but simply was given a Polaroid camera in 2004 and started recorded. Brodie’s work reflects the rawness of an uncut photographer. The photographs are mostly of this band of teenagers who ride trains around America. Its this gypsy clan that travels and survive together; the modern day nomads.

As quickly as Brodie came into the scene, he left after publishing a book of his findings. One of the many mysterious things about this game changer photographer.

Propaganda project

I liked this project; I thought it seemed realistic to something I would like to do pertaining to a career or some sort. Being a Rhetoric major, I love finding different meanings behind almost any media. In this project I was able to use Ethos and Pathos; appealing to the audience's emotions and hopefully adding credibility with the national hotline.
I work at the Red Lion Hotel in Pasco; apparently the biggest area for human trafficking. It's crazy to think even in this small town that things like that happen, but its true. I think people are unaware of the existence and therefore no not look for the signs. However, if you are aware, sometimes the public eye can be the most effective activists against public issues like this.

Heather Hansen: Movement

Heather Hansen, a native of New Orleans, incorporates the movement of yoga with charcoal art. Heather takes a large piece of white paper and several pieces of charcoal and records the body's movement through the poses. The pictures turn into mostly circles, which is interesting considering it reflects the movement of the body.
This is wonderful because it is as much performance art as the end result. When she takes to the beach and uses the scene with sand to construct basically the same idea. The movement of the body comes together makes a wonderful connection to the piece and the reflection of the body.

Abstract Triptych- I Hate Boxes

I Hate Boxes 

Well, first off I didn't want this piece to a transitional abstract piece; I wanted to approach it with an edge and difference. For one thing, I hate boxes. I hate putting things in it, I hate being put into them as a student or writer or person; So I wanted the lines to not really make sense and have to look for the definition of each box. There are three boxes with each of the symbols in them.
I used Wingdings also, so the font isn't even the typical letters but rather symbols. I used my initials in this and represented them or me as a symbol rather than a name or letters. I loved working in the shades rather than color because it gives a feel of balance rather than a typical emotion, which color can sometimes pull out.
I started with triangles partly because of the symbol Wingdings gave me and partly because I wanted the shapes to go somewhere. They ended up moving from these understood shapes and move into more abstract; its like entering the abstraction from something that we are comfortable with.