Category: Photography

For my second set of the identity project, the artist that I would like to choose is David Lazar.

The photographer took images of different people when traveling to different places, and he successfully captured their expressions (especially the eyes—most of the time the subject is looking directly into the camera). His message is to capture the beauty of many places that he traveled to, mostly through the people living there. Occasionally, he will shoot portraits of animals and landscapes to reflect the place’s beauty.

David Lazar’s style is that he shoots usually when others are looking directly at the camera. The light always stays on the subject’s face, often greatly highlighting the eyes. There is some, but not much, body movement, and the facial expressions are usually very calm or smiling. However, most of his subjects are just calmly looking into the camera. The faces can still be very powerful even though the subjects are not smiling.

His photographs really inspire me, because it shows me that light is very important, it conveys more meaning when the light is on the eyes, and it is ok to use not that much body movement and it is also ok to let my subjects remain calm and not smile. I am going to cast light on my subjects during my experiments when my subject is looking directly at the camera, and not capture that much body movement.

This is one of the most famous photographs shot by David Lazar. In the picture, a boy is hiding among the green foliage. His eyes are green like the leaves all around him, and there is also green paint on his face. The eyes are the most memorable from this photograph, the light really highlights their beauty, and the shadows are on the leaves behind him. The lines on the leaves closest to the camera is very clear, so are the lines on the leaves behind the boy. The photographer also portrayed the leaves close up to the camera larger than the leaves further away.

This photograph portrays a girl that David Lazar met during his travels. She was playing with her friends in their village in Bangladesh when David Lazar paid his visit to their hometown. This photo was shot outside of the girl’s home on the front steps, in the shadow of the roof. She rested on her shoulders as she was hugging her knees, with a calm facial expression. Sunlight rested on her face as she looked into the camera, highlighting her eyes.

This is one of the other girls that David Lazar met. Her upper body was wrapped in red cloth with golden outlines of flowers on it. Her sharp eyes stared straight into the camera, and her face was very calm. The background behind her was dark, and light was resting on her face. This image clearly shows the contrast between light and dark, and is a very good inspiration for shooting portraits.

This image is different from the other ones by Lazar because the girl in the image is looking away from the camera. We can see clearly that her eyes seem sad and depressed as she stares straight ahead of her, thanks to the sunlight that highlights her eyes. There are lots of decoration around her neck, and her clothes has a bright shade of red. She leans against very simple branches that are horizontally alines, a few even hang before her eyes, forming a stark contrast with her clothes and the decorations around her neck.

The girl in the image is wearing a pink jacket, and there is a yellow headscarf around her head, and a strand falls down on her right shoulder. A streak of red paint apparent between her eyebrows. She is looking directly into the camera, and sunlight falls directly on her large brown eyes, casting a shadow on her right hand. Her jacket is also a bit dark with her shadow on it. This shows direct light and dark contrast, with light on her face and shadows on her hand and jacket.

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Schools should not make school uniforms compulsory because they do not create benefits for students. Maybe someone will say that uniforms can tell others about students’ parts of community. However actually uniforms ignore individual and unique things about students, which can make students very uncomfortable. Students’ attitude towards school will be bad.

Schools should not make school uniforms compulsory because they cannot make students smarter. Based on a debate article Debate Over School Uniforms Rages On, one student said that uniforms do not help individuals really know who they are. What is inside actually determines how successful they are. This shows that uniforms do not have magic that can make students smarter and successful. Only when they work hard, learn fast and practice, they will be successful. This is why schools do not need uniforms.

Schools should not make school uniforms compulsory because school uniforms do not hide the changes between rich students and poor students. Some student may say that school uniforms look like it can hide the differences between rich and poor students, but actually it can only make it worse for the poor students. Because poor students can only afford one of the uniforms and wear it all the time. That’s maximum for them. But the rich students can buy new uniforms as many as they want to show off how rich they are. This shows that school uniforms will cause a worse situation for the poor students. Hence school uniforms should not be compulsory, because it may create bully. In addition, school uniforms do not protect uniqueness and freedom, which gives student opportunities to express themselves freely.

Some people might think that uniforms can make the feeling of community better, so everyone will know which school you are in. But actually, it can make it worse, too. Some school’s students get judged because of what school’s uniform they wear. Therefore, schools should ban school uniforms.

School uniforms do not have any benefit for students, they can only make the community relationships worse and worse. Hence, schools should not make school uniforms compulsory.

 

Percy should have positive relationships, so he can make good choices. For example, he has very good relationships between his mother, Grover, and Mr. Brunner. He cares about them very much, and he also trusts them. They often trusts Percy and cares about him, too. The relationship between Percy and Gabe (his stepfather) isn’t very positive. They often had fights, and disagreement. But this is often because Gabe is not nice to Percy and his mother, not Percy and his mother’s fault. But they need to talk to him, and probably his goanna change his attitude. The relationship between Percy and Annabeth, Luke and Chiron are also good, but the relationship between Percy and Luke changed at the end. Luke is one of the bads, he had been pretending to be good until the last moment he and Percy met, he shows Percy the real him. 

 

Percy should have positive relationships so he makes good choices. In the novel, Percy says “Her name is Sally Jackson, and she is the best person+ the nicest lady in the world, she can make me feel good just by walking into the room.”(page29,33,and 32) From this sentence, we can tell that Percy has positive relationships with his mother, and that will never change. But they should trust each other more, so the relationship between them will be better then before. Research indicates that strong relationships contribute to health at any age. in the novel, Grover says “‘Watching me? Keep tabs on you. Making sure you were okay. But I wasn’t faking being your friend,’ he added hastily. ‘i am your friend.’” (page44). From the article, the person from University of Minnesota says “the support offered by a caring friend can provide a buffer against the effects of stress.” Fron these quotes, we know that Percy needs to learn how to manage his life. He needs to make more friends, not just Grover or Annabeth. He needs to manage his emotions, he can’t be always angry forever.