Photo+Critiquing

=== This is my first photo. It is a picture of a Burger King and someone walking towards it. The picture is presented in black and white, maybe to show the seriousness of the photo or to give a dramatic effect. The picture was taken at an angle, possibly to show more in the picture, or to show the depth in the picture. The picture might mean that some of our world is in poverty, so they need to resort to cheap unhealthy foods from fast food restaurants. [] === === For my second photo, there are people rioting in the streets. There is a sign that says ‘Stop the 9-11 cover-up’. This photo is also in black and white. If you look closely, it almost seems like a fish-eye effect, where the picture looks magnified in the middle and looks a bit skinny on the sides, but if it is there it is quite faint. The people in the picture are all a bit different than each other, as to show all the people working together to support their one cause, which could be another action in the picture. [] === === Here, there are two men together, grasping a chain link fence by what looks like Ground-Zero. It seems like they are morning the loss of someone that died in the incident. In the corner of the picture are more people who are there, most probably also mourning a lost loved one. By including that, it would show that there are many people mourning the death or injury of someone that they know. It also looks like the two are father and son, as one looks older than the other, so it seems that they are there mourning the loss of their mother/wife, which shows that the crash into the twin towers affected a lot of families, which strengthens the mood of depressing. [] === === In this photo, there is a man on the street. He is wiping a tear from his eye. He is also holding a flute in his hand, with a suitcase with money in it on the ground next to him, so it appears as though he is busking. The picture is presented in black and white. This photo and the previous photos are by the same man in the same gallery, which is why they have similarities. The gallery is labelled, ‘Zero”, and captures emotions and the after-effects of the incident. This particular photo shows that 9-11 has reduced people to busking and begging, and it seems that this man is homeless as well. This photo gallery altogether shows in a powerful way the emotions of 9-11 by presenting the pictures in black and white, which is a rather depressing way to display them, but depressing is the mood that is there, and that could be what the photojournalist is trying to display, and if that is what he was trying to display, then he did a very good job, because once you look at one, you can feel your heart sinking looking at the depressing scene before you. [] ===

Mrs. Pantel's comments:
===Thanks for doing an extra photo. Your responses got more detailed as you did each photo. I appreciated that you were noticing some of the more subtle details and thinking on what they might mean. How did each photo make you feel? ===