Natalia's Photography Blog

Steve McCurry captures very raw moments between humans of all different cultures and experiences. His style of photography seems to pierce through the subjects soul and displays their humanness in a clean and beautiful way. While I will never know what it is like to experience these people's lives, his work seems to let me have little glimpses into other peoples very different lives that I am thankful to be able to see.  In the image above, the kid seems to be leading everyone else. I think there are different ways you could interpret this, but to me I think it can represent how we would benefit to an extent if we let the child in us all lead sometimes rather than always being so serious.  Color seems to be a strong aspect of his photography, which initially catches the viewers eye. The photos are rich, seamless, and visually appealing while also capturing very raw and real moments of people's lives. While I didn't include many here, in a lot of his portraits of people, the...

Photography is often looked at as art, but it is that and many other things, and all of these things inhabit many parts of our everyday lives that often go overlooked. Like the reading mentioned, the accessibility of photography has skyrocketed, so more people than ever have been able to record images. Photography is being used for many different industries, from art to science to forensics. I agree with the idea presented in the reading. Photography may technically refer to the process of light in a given moment/time being recorded through different procedures, but the meaning behind a photograph and photography is completely dependent upon the person viewing the image and the circumstances in which the photograph was taken. "What made for an effective, good, or even beautiful picture depended entirely on who was doing the looking and talking."  I do think the stark difference in how important and almost sacred getting an image of you recreated was. You would have to pay a l...