Leocardie’s Hw 1

Leocardie Delva

H.W #1

To me photography is a great way to capture those special moments that we experience in our lives. Personally, I live for those moments when I can scroll through my camera roll and go back in time and relive those great times that I’ve had. Photography is a great way to tell a story through a picture. For example, If I go out to a new restaurant and I decided to post a picture of my meal, it lets you know that I enjoyed it. For instance, I wouldn’t post a photo if my plate if the food was absolutely disgusting. I want to showcase the food, even shout out the restaurant if it was really good. But just by doing that, I’m letting my audience know that I had a great time at whatever restaurant it was. A great photographer is able to take a simple photo and share the story with their audience.

Selfies to me is a great way to let you know how someone feels about themselves by the way they present themselves to the world. It used to give you a bit on insight on one’s life. But nowadays with technology advancing and society having such a huge impact on how people view themselves, they are often misleading. For example, when it comes to snapchat and/or Instagram a lot of people are just posting things just for likes. They’ll go out of their way to make sure something looks a certain way, or they’re doing something to make it seem genuine, when in fact that is not the case. Social media has such a huge impact on our everyday lives that we feel as if everything we do we have to post. I’ve seen people out at parties do a whole 10/15 second video of them dancing and “having a great time” then once the video is over they sit back down and do nothing. I definitely agree with Cindy Sherman’s statement when she says “One of the most important lessons of her photography is that the roles and appearances that lock in social norms aren’t imposed from on high. We perform them ourselves, and the mark of their perniciousness is that we don’t even notice.”