1 min 1 image: Daniel Abad

Monday, April 11, 2016

Daniel Abad

Mike Wells, "Hand"

1980

I chose this image because of the initial reaction I experienced from first looking at this image. It made me feel down but at the same time it made me feel extremely thankful and grateful. We take it for granted that we have access to clean water and food while on the other side of the world, we have children going to sleep hungry and thirsty because of the lack of resources. It hurts to see the small malnourished hand from this child on top of the other hand because we know that is not right and no child should ever be that malnourished. This photo can make one reflect on their own life and realize everyone should be grateful for what they have in their life because there are probably other people around the world who would love to live a life like yours.

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