Category — Kamellia

About the picture: http://blog.oregonlive.com/ent_impact_performance/2008/04/large_ubw_jant-bi2.jpg

Probably the most incomprehensible life to us city people is the life of bush women. It is no surprise then that audiences of Les ecailles de la memoire (The Scales of Memory) are still left confused about what they’ve seen in the performance. [Read more →]

About this picture: http://www.edutopia.org/images/graphics/samuel_freedman.jpg

What would you do after a loved one died of a heartbreaking disease? How would you cope with the situation? Would you try to fill the missing holes in his/her life or would you make peace with the person you knew him/her as? By writing Who She Was, Samuel Freedman answered all of these questions. [Read more →]

Portrait of a Woman and Man at a Casement

An example of a “chopine”

On my second visit to the Met, I spent a couple of minutes in the lobby admiring its size and design. The many exhibits held by the building and the routes you take to get to some of them have always bewildered me. I admit that during a class trip in high school, a friend and I got lost in the museum for an hour. This time, however, I knew for sure the exhibit I was going to visit and how I was going to get there. [Read more →]

For around 800 years in Spain, Christians and Muslims fought to claim the land as their own. Previously inhabited by the Visigoths, a barbaric people, Iberia was viewed as a mystical land with an improved condition since the Moors ruled. As the success of their rule there grew, their territory grew as well. The popular belief during this time, however, was that the Moors oppressed the population under them. Reconquista, the name of my collage and the period during which the war between Muslims and Christians occurred, focuses on the cultural exchange and highlights of this piece of history. [Read more →]

My brother (age 1) playing in the snow.

My brother (age 3) and I (age 4) in front of our home right before I was off to school.

As she drove back to their home she tried to hold back her laughter. During the five-minute ride, she glanced several times at her rear-view mirror showing the incredibly naïve and adorable creature she helped create. After a few seconds of coaxing him to show it to her, the mother noticed that the test paper her six-year-old son produced was a fake. At the top of it in thick writing read “90000%.” But she didn’t let him know his mistake. She loudly praised him just to allow him the moment of smugness he experienced while seated in the back of the car. [Read more →]

Please click here to go to the album for Street Stalls

Going into this photography project, I assumed I would just have to walk around the city snapping pictures of random things and then choosing the photos I like. I assumed that it would take an hour or less compiling the photos necessary for this project. I assumed that people wouldn’t mind the flashes of my camera, as tourists take many pictures in the city. I assumed wrong. [Read more →]

About the picture: Picture of Capa. Found on artist Monica Ong’s site.

Classified as a “concerned photographer,” Cornell Capa worked to expose revolutions and hardships, especially in Latin America. Capa was born in Hungary into a secular Jewish family in 1918. He was inspired to go into photography due to his brother, Robert Capa−a war photographer who was killed while taking photos in Indochina. In 1974, he created the International Center of Photography (ICP) in order to honor his brother’s cause and to strengthen photojournalism. Currently, the ICP is featuring an exhibit of his various works. [Read more →]

About this picture: Frances Richey with Ben when he was one day old. Taken from her official site gallery.

In a loud and slightly nervous manner, Frances Richey made her way to the small stage in the Macaulay Honors College Common Room. Her unexpectedly tranquil and flowing voice began to guide her audience into the shallow details of her life (where she was from, what college she attended, etc.) Then, as the evening progressed, it dived into the depths of her soul. [Read more →]

About this picture: Taken from Clay’s official MySpace.

Hip-hop is essentially unheard of in Broadway and off-Broadway shows. Usually when you happen upon tickets to the typical musical, the numbers included in it tend to be poppy and understandable to all members of its audience. In October of this year, however, Clay was released in New York to be an off-Broadway anomaly. [Read more →]

About the picture: http://www.thirteen.org/mediamatters/303/images/photo_right_02.jpg

Jeff Mermelstein, the author of Sidewalk (which received the European Publishers Award for Photography in 1999), took time out of his schedule on November 4th to expose his passion to students at Baruch College. [Read more →]