Social Narrative

This assignment was extremely difficult for me. First off- I had a hard time determining what the assignment meant to me. I at three scenes overall: A baptism-church, a bar, and a graveyard. I ended up going with the graveyard for my final project. I wanted to portray life through what other leave behind. And in a graveyard- this is the final resting place- and the final words the individual leaves to the world. I decided to shoot in the old part of this particular cemetery. The first image- of some stones portrays what most see when they look at a graveyard. The second- a stone with one name only- "Sarah." This stone was one of many that struck me- no dates, no last name, and no epithet. Maybe Sarah was young, maybe her family didn't have the extra money to have it engraved further, or maybe no one knew her last name and birth date. The third was a statue on top of a family plot- it almost looks as though she is looking down upon the fourth image- the broken tomb stone- maybe out of sadness because someone's monument was destroyed. And the fifth image maybe just an engravement on a stone- but the words "hope" means to me- that maybe there is hope even in an environment that usually houses death.

notes: Though in class this critique held a lot of criticism- I thought this assignment helped me grow- it challenged me- and I portrayed an environment that once scared me- and made it seem beautiful- the skies in the first and last photo were stunning- and even though it was dusk- it did not hold the feelings of fear or darkness to me. I really struggled with the idea of a social narrative but I am very happy with the result.