Author: S Prado

Seeing myself on TV

“Proud moment”

One of the proudest things I did in my life. On Friday I was over a friend’s home who I haven’t seen in a while. We asked each other usual stuff and asked me if I had access to the broadcast of me being on the news since he had never seen the footage, and sure enough I did. It was the time I appeared on TV talking about my card collection. I wasn’t nervous being in front of a giant camera and a microphone. Actually I find presenting in front of a classroom to be more nerve racking for me.

My idols

“Three legends”

This photo of those three cards ties into my previous story. I got those cards because I was in card club and my teacher had lockers filled with boxes of cards that came from around the country. I actually keep a few cards in backpack in any given day as form of “good luck”. I chose those cards to take a picture because those are three idols I look up to as well as the three main sports that I love very much, soccer, Formula 1, and WWE/wrestling.

Selfie at MSG Studios

“Cast”

This last photo was actually taken in December last year and it’s me at MSG Studios. I’m made friends with an anchor (the one on the top left) that works for the New York Knicks and said I can come to the Studio to watch a game. While I do consider basketball to be a highly entertaining sport and would rank it near the top as one of the best sports ever, I wouldn’t call myself a fan, I still watch when April rolls around.

In Teju Coles’s photo essay, my favorite picture I would like to say is of “A young Haitian man grieving  at the funeral of his mother in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.” In my opinion, this is a documentary photo, judging by the fact that the photo was taken at the moment a group of people are holding back the grieving man. Something that struck me has more to do with the background, this appears to be taken in a residential area, or at least a public setting, it has a large crowd of people indicating that the grieving man’s mother was very well known to people in that area. And with that, I’d like to represent my narrative of this photo. While yes, I can say that this photo shows the separation of a mother and son, it is correct, but I won’t do that, that’s too easy. How I see this photo is a much more a gathering, it shows that a common death in a group can bring everyone together to remember a great person in their life. The fact that people went out of their way to hold a public funeral for the grieving man’s mom shows the impact that that woman had in their life.