Skip to main content

Week 5 Blog Forum

Lindsey Addario

 In chapters 2-7 of Linsey Addario's book "It's What I Do," she goes over many of the different adventures she endures during her time as a photo journalist. To me it was all simply amazing. To thinks she lived in all these countries and worked as a single women makes me view my life in a whole different perspective. Her ability to keep working through so many mishaps is inspiring. Being able to photograph through bombs and war, walking around seeing dead body parts in bags and keep her love for the work in astonishing.

Two things that left an impression on me were how she handled working away form her boyfriend knowing her had other lovers. How she was able to keep her personal relationships out of her work and do her job. this made me think of how strong she has to be as a person to keep her cool like that. Another thing that left an impression on me was her time with the New York Times and being captured and held by those people. The idea of that ever happening to me scares the crap out of me. How she keeps going after encountering so many near death experiences.

Lessons I can apply to photo journalism from her are how to keep calm. How to look for moments and be ready for anything to happen. Most definitely reading her story has inspired me to not want to give up. So many bad things can happen in you life, but if you love what you do, it makes moving on that much easier.

Personal sacrifices Linsey Addario has made are numerous. She put family relationships on hold as well as personal relationships. even having a family of her own wasn't close to be being a top priority.

My favorite Linsey Addario quote so far, is "And I never wanted to regret the kisses I missed" (83). This quote put in perspective the things she had to give up in life to be happy with her career. When I read it, it almost hurt my heart, but inspired me at the same time.

I love the photo from when she was in Africa on page 184 pf the persons face. I like it because it's not a perfect photo. The photo cuts off their chin and has them centered right in the middle, yet the photo is still powerful and doesn't need to be perfect. It sends a message just the way it is. On page 133 the photo of the Iraqi man in the room with bags of bodies. This photo was moving to me. The photo portrayed what was happening and the hurt happening ver well. It was almost so real it was hard to look at.


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Week 7 Blog Forum

My Neighborhood/Hometown  I'm going to photograph Albany, Oregon. I actually currently live in Lebanon, but I grew up in Albany and for almost my whole life it's where I lived and went to school. It's still what I consider my home.  A portrait I could shoot would be a worker in Albany. I would most likely do someone who works at a popular "just Albany" place, like Hasty Freeze. A landmark I could photograph would be something like the clocktower, or the train station area. An activity I could photograph could be the farmers market on Saturday, or a sporting event happening in town.  The biggest photo challenge in this assignment will probably be the activity. I work a lot and don't always have time to make it to different things happening around Albany, and there's also the factor that I live on Lebanon.  Two Photo Story Ideas One interesting photo story I could do would be my sisters pregnant horse. Taking photos of how horses grow and go throu...
Post a Comment
Read more

Colitis survivor Brody Johannesen

As he sat in his hospital bed, Brody Johannessen wondered, why me? What is wrong with me, what did I do to deserve this? Weeks later looking in the mirror he saw someone he didn’t recognize. Someone who didn’t know where to look next or how his life would change. 80, 90, 100 pounds up on the bar. Now the only goal is to push the next rep. LBCC sports science major Brody Johannessen was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis the summer before his senior year of high school. Not knowing if he would ever play the sport he loved again and how his life would change because of it. “It was soul crushing, because I found out right before I had Linfield camp and wasn’t sure I was going to be able to play football that year,” said Johannessen. Now, he smiles as he enters the gym, carrying a notebook with the day’s workout plan. The gym is where his time now belongs. When not hanging out with friends having a game night, brody goes to school full-time and works out regularly. “Lifting was a big part ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Week 1 Blog Forum

About me  This previous year at my high school I joined my schools magazine/journalism class. After joining I realized I really love journalism, so I'm majoring in it. I took this class as a prerequisite for my major. During my time on my school magazine I didn't do much with the photography aspect of things. In taking this class I want to widen my skills and gain some knowledge surrounding this area. Goals My goals for this class are how to work a camera. Considering I have no skills in camera use, any skills at all would be more than what I know now. I want to also engage with the campus and learn more about what is happening at LBCC. Going around and taking picture will hopefully help me do that. I would also like to get connected with the commuter and get some of my work published in it. LBCC photos I think good subjects for an upcoming photoshoot would be classes getting started and some students trying new things. Like, students first time in a lab, or first ti...
Post a Comment
Read more