Photoville Assignment

For my photoville assignment, I attended the Creativity in Unprecedented Times webinar. This was my first webinar that wasn’t strictly focused on anything school-related, which is why I found this one especially interesting. There were four eccentric photographers on the call and they spoke about how has the pandemic affected their creativity and how with such limited resources they were able to still take some great pictures. One of the photographers, Alexis Hunley, mentioned that she was able to remain creative throughout the pandemic by exploring more of her local environment instead of doing her normal route. Another photographer, Elinor Carucci, said she starting taking portraits of her family members. But before getting into how they have been managing their creativity throughout the pandemic, they showed their artwork before the pandemic. I was especially impressed by the photographer, Bri McDaniel, who takes very candid pictures of mothers. I saw a variety of mothers breastfeeding and mothers harnessing their children. However, what’s more, important to her is the act of taking pictures of mothers because they are often overlooked and neglected. After all, you rarely see them being photographed. What I learned is the power of staying creative and how even in the toughest times one shouldn’t let their creativity die. I at the beginning of quarantine was excited with the newfound time I would have to indulge in my personal projects, but grew increasingly uninterested as the months went by given the massacre we all survived.