Descriptive Essay On Photography

1. I have been working on photography ever since I was in middle school. It is a passion that comes naturally to me. It is an innate instinct for me to be walking around and see a perfectly composed scene to photograph. I always bring my camera with me whenever I go and if I go venturing around with my friends. I was motivated to use photography to cover my topic of humanism, because I felt that it expresses humans the most. It can show strangers and friends surrounded by their environment and in the midst of their own candid actions. A photograph can also be interpreted with over a thousand words as just one human can. Based on the setting each person or group is placed in, it may show political, economical, or religious factors surrounding

I chose eleven photographs that I took all over Thanksgiving break that remind me of what humanity is. It shows how humans interact with each other, their environment, and beliefs and values. In the first photograph of the girl I took staring right at the camera, she was a total stranger to me and I just photographed her as she was walking through the trees at a park. Her face and makeup looked so natural to her facial and me features we soft and make her appear kind without me even knowing who she was. Strangers interacting without words, but just facial expressions and looks can say a lot about how we behave towards one another. In the next photograph of the man holding his camera, he was there actually photographing the girl in the previous photo in the park. He came off as calm and very relaxed and seemed to be working on his passion just as I was with photography. It’s not everyday that total strangers are okay with letting you take pictures of them, even if after you explain what it is for. The photo of the girl sitting on the white bench is another photo that reminds me of how serene and sublime humanity can be. She seems happy and at peace with herself and I actually took this while visiting a Buddha

Human interaction with each other as well as nature is a major part of what humanity is. This ties into the next photograph taken in Coral Gables of a couple showing affection towards one another. Humans are full of love and sometimes it takes another person to bring it out in another.

3. In all of my photographs I chose to depict the good natured and curious ways of humans. This is how people are in their normal habitat, natural, and in my opinion the best way to convey ideas about humanism because it is candid.

4. Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith and Maidservant With Head of Holofernes is oil on canvas work that shows an intense scene of Judith and Abra preparing to flee Holofernes’s tent with his severed head. This piece is a hostile view of humanity, showing aggression, gore, deceit, and killing. It is the opposite of what I want to show in my work of what humanity is. This piece shows the bad natured ways of human and the evil of