1 min 1 image: Fany Reyes Ton

Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Fany Reyes Ton

Fany Reyes

Maria Varela "A young Chicanita Hawks"

1968

It is said a picture is worth a thousand words. This photographic

images conveys what might take many words to express. I selected this image for its powerful stage that illustrates some sort of story. Seeing how the images range of perception, emotions. Creating and capturing moments of unprecedented records, speaking loudly by capturing the historic moment,sign and symbol of Chicano Activism. Reason being why I felt an attachment to this image. Re-capturing how it is now a days. Especially now upon the injustice of Dreamers like myself are experiencing. Breaking away from the chains of silence. Like the little girl standing up for what we believe.

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