Red selection:

In my red selections, I have chosen photographs that I believe best represent one’s loneliness at school. In my red selections, I chose five photographs that depict how this person is new to this school and feels lonely. Loneliness follows her around the school in various circumstances. I believe that many people or students can connect to the person in my images, who is having difficulty making friends at school and is feeling lonely. Additionally, as previously stated, I changed the predominant color of my images to black and white to represent the loneliness that can occur in a given situation. First, the color black represents sadness. This is one of the sad colors associated with sorrow in Western cultures, which is why people wear black to funerals and when they are in grief. Black evokes feelings of sadness and terror.
Because black is associated with authority and power, it might make us feel intimidated and unapproachable. As a result, black is unquestionably the saddest of all colors.

Starting from the left, the first photograph was taken outside on the field, with the sun at an angle and the shadow of herself seated on a vast field with no one in sight.

Next, the shot on the right of the first one, beginning on the left, was taken in the cafeteria. There is a lot of use of patterns with all the rows of chairs in that specific environment. The cafeteria is a school setting that gives an essential chance for students to build school pride and a sense of community, and the architecture of the space can contribute to this mindset. It’s crowded and noisy, yet often filled with happiness. However, the image I captured expresses and contrasts how lonely this girl is sitting alone in this cafeteria without anyone to talk to or spend time with.

Following that comes an image captured by the school’s kitchen. Students frequently appreciate and wish to visit the school kitchen. They get to spend time cooking with their friends, and when people go by the kitchen, there are usually noises of laughter coming from them. It’s difficult not to stare through the windows at the kids enjoying their time in there.

After that is a photograph taken outside of the kindergarten student’s classroom. This is identical to the last one, despite the fact that we can only see the girl’s back facing us, but having the kids inside learning so joyfully highlights how lonely she is and how eager she is to be and spend time with friends.

Finally, in the last image, we can see two persons facing the camera on the left side, and from a distance, we can tell that they are talking; when a person is facing you in a photograph, they frequently appear bigger, taller, and stronger, which psychologically makes them feel more powerful. However, on the right side, the girl is walking alone, and to emphasize her loneliness, she is not facing the camera, but rather her back is facing the camera.

Green selection: To reflect my vision These photographs were chosen from the yellow selection. As previously stated, my goal was to capture photographs of someone standing or sitting alone in various settings and scenarios, and to represent someone’s loneliness, mostly specified in school. I converted all of the photographs I collected and chose from the yellow selection to black and white in order to depict my sense of loneliness in a specific setting, school. I was inspired not by a single photographer, but by a group of photographers who took a series of photographs of a person standing alone in various locations. However, I was simply inspired by the way the photographers had their one person standing in the shot, but that doesn’t mean that one standing there would always portray loneliness. For example, in one of my inspirational images, there was a person standing alone with arms stretched out by the sea as the sun rose; this would most likely be depicting hope, with the sun rising as a sign of hope rising. However, as I indicated in my green selection, in order to represent my vision, I changed the general color to black and white, which from this first look at the photographs helped build a tone for my motif.

Yellow selection: All of the photographs I shot for the yellow selection illustrate how I wanted to take images of a person standing alone in different situations in school.