Author: d.mcneilbruce

For my final Project, I will be filming an event called Making New York, which feature Etsy NY team also known as NY Handmade Collectives in the Chelsea market from November 7th- December 3rd. At this event it will showcase the history of NY handmade items from past to present. This project will show how New Yorker’s coming together for the holiday and show their support for local crafts-makers.  This event being covered will have more than 20 NY Etsy sellers attending, and this gives me  the chance to show  in my report the shoppers viewing  different local items and build relationships with the local crafts-makers.  For the interview part of the assignment I could focus on one particular local craft-maker called RisingPhoenixx and how they started their business and how it is being a small business in NY. While the video show the Making New York event and that particular crafts maker interaction with the public.

Minorities represent more than 60% of asthma patients with uncontrollable asthma. A lot of these asthma patients unfortunately spend a lot of time in the hospital and even loose their lives. Colombia University has started a clinical trial for minorities over 18 with uncontrollable asthma to undergo breathe therapy. I feel this therapy that given to these patients is a new and alternative way to help them cope with their asthma. If this clinical is successful it will benefit a lot of people in the community.  My story will be focusing on how the clinical trial works and how the therapy process goes by speaking with the principal investigator.

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The photography festival known as Photoville in Brooklyn Bridge Park brought up controversial issues around the world such as immigration, climate change, gender identity and much more. In their many exhibits, one in particular that captured my interest was the Isle Landers by Darrin Zammit. This particular exhibit awakened me in seeing the decade of immigration crises of African refugees and migrants arriving in the country of Malta.

When speaking with Mr. Zammit he stated that this project was something that was important to him, due to the fact that Malta was his home country. He started off by shooting for a Non-government organization in Uganda and felt that he could show the crisis of immigration in Malta. Darrin Zammit took the first steps in his project by working on the Phoenix( A migrant rescue ship in the Mediterranean Sea) that was operated by a non-government organization called MOAS were Zammit was an eyewitness of the dramatics of migrant entering into Malta. Zammit worked on this project for more than 15 years and saw many tragic events but  the worse for him was watching the migrants slipping and going under the water. A specific time that Darrin Zammit recalled being on of his hardest experiences was on an Easter Sunday while he was out rescuing migrants, there was one migrant who slipped bring down bring down ten others with him. Zammit stated how he could see through his lenses the hands reaching out for him and he quickly threw down his camera and started to help pull the migrants aboard.

With all the turmoil and animosity going on these last couple of day over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and now the Trump Administration wanting to “wind down”/ end the program. I feel for my the photo essay, I want my to display the sentiments of people over this action. Being raised by an immigrant parent and seeing their dreams unfold because they were given the opportunity to come to the United States, bring concerns that these children who are here in the United States through DACA program won’t be given the same possibility. If were are a nation that boost its ego on its care for children well then the ending of the program is a major contradiction to that and is damaging the children and our future.