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Hello, my name is Emmanuel DeWalt and I am a Communication Design major in the graphic design module.  As the semester began I had little to no experience in internships as I hoped to find one that can utilize my skillset.  When speaking of skillsets, some softwares I can say that I am proficient in is Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator because I enjoy photo editing and creating branding identity.  With each day progressing I was worried that I would not find a suitable internship for the course.  However, with the help of Prof. Nicolaou I was able to obtain an internship position at the non-profit organization, Unit for Equality.

Dewalt_E_gordon Parks Assignment

For my Gordon Parks assignment I chose to redesign one if his book called “A Choice of Weapons” while using his photograph he took of the young lady and what seems to be her daughter at department store where it says colored entrance only.  This photo is powerful because it shows the reason he picked up a camera in the first place, to use it as a weapon against social justice in America.

This photo was apart of the series “Segregation in the South, 1956” where Gordon Parks  documented the life of Blacks in America during segregation in the south.  New York Life needed Gordon Parks documentation of the result of the Jim Crow laws. Parks captured discrimination through the eyes of  the oldest Thornton son, E.J., a professor at Fisk University, as he and his family stood in the colored waiting room of a bus terminal in Nashville.

The photo that stood out to me the most was “Ondria Tanner and Her Grandmother Window-Shopping, Mobile, Alabama, 1956″, the photo has a strong sense of segregation as the little girl looks at the  clothes on display to see that all the mannequin’s are white.