Jasmie Fuentes

  There is something interesting when you're just looking into the eyes of someone. No expression just eye contact. it's interesting that McCurry tends to shoot most of his portraits with little to no facial expression. In the past we have discussed how eyes are the windows into our soal and I believe that that is something that McCurrys images show. Living in places like the U.S. where we live in individualistic societies and with limited intimate human interaction making eye contact with anyone can be seen as uncomfortable, However the way that Steve's portraits intentionally put you in the place where you have to share a moment with the person in the photograph even for a second. McCurry also does a great job of including cultures from many different parts of the world.  In a world full of conflict McCurry photos are great story tellers. it is interesting that one of his first and most popular image of a young girl from Afghanistan shows that creating of bridges to con...

There are so many different ways that photography is used in our day to day lives. Social media platforms like Instagram consist of millions of pictures uploaded by users all over the world with the goal of sharing with friends and sometimes strangers. Photography has so many different meaning but to me photography has always been a way of documenting moments. Like Marvin Heiferman mentioned, photographs do things to us " they engage us optically, neurologically, intellectually, emotionally, viscerally, physically". There are photographs that have lingering feelings that you will carry with you.  In a world where photography is accessible to everyone not all photographs evoke the same type of emotions. We can see the image that Marvin used in his book to show the mass number of images all in one space, but what makes that photograph art compared to others? Spending so much time looking at images from textbooks, galleries, museums and social media you have to ask yourself, wha...