Dawoud Bey is an American photographer and educator renowned for his large-scale color portraits. In this video, we explore some of his pictures which he took in a classroom with students. In my opinion, some of them represents “Utility” but most of them represent “Utopia”. The portraits that he took was in close-up and really close in to the frame. The subject in the photograph looks directly in to the camera whcih make seem like the subject is making an eye contact. Also, it makes the emotion that they are trying to show, more powerful for the viewer. Gestures and the light are also the important parts of the portraits. His point was giving the message with the content of the photograph.