1 min 1 image: MelissaMarie Mejia

Monday, April 14, 2014

MelissaMarie Mejia

José Hernández-Claire "National Exodus: Immigration into the US"

2005

José Hernández-Claire reminds me that there are faces and names to the people that are pass the border. Everyday that passes, men, women, and children risk their lives to reach the U.S. in hopes of better education, jobs, and opportunities. This photograph itself made me realize how much I take living here on U.S. soil, for granted. Immigrants leave behind what they know, to try to live a better life in a foreign country; somewhere they know nothing about, but the stories they hear.

To Live A Better Life...

ABOUT

This blog was inspired by the 1 Image 1 Minute written column in X-TRA and subsequent live iterations of the project by Micol Hebron. The inspiration for the 1 Image 1 Minute column was a similar project produced by Belgian director Agnès Varda (and later written about by Rosalind Krauss) for French television in 1983.

For this blog (and their assignment), students in Niku Kashef's photography classes are asked to select a photograph (that they did not make) that inspires or intrigues them in some way and to speak about it for exactly 1 minute (roughly 150 written words). Students post their name, the artists' name, title of the photograph, year the photograph was made and the medium along with their ~150 words.

In the second part of the assignment, students are asked to either use the image they chose to speak to OR a new image and make an inspiration image based on the photographic/2d design aspects of that image (eg direction/type of light, perspective, depth of field, focus, color palate, etc).

To add to this blog and contribute a post, please contact niku(at)csun(dot)edu