DISPLACEMENT- Week 2
Rrrrriiiipppp! The sound of newspaper shredding fills the air at HOLA’s Public Art Residency as three large structures begin to take form. Arriving students are greeted by mountains of newsprint, powertools, stacks of scrap wood, 300 feet of chicken wire, and gallons of glue. Week 2 of Displacement is off to a monumental start!
We begin the day with another inspiring guest speaker, Trinidad Ruiz. He is a visual artist, community organizer, and educator working at the intersection of creativity, community, and tenant activism. Currently, he makes a difference in his positions at we.LA and the Love House. He shared his story of how collective action stopped displacement in his neighborhood.
Soon, the students divide into teams supported by Michael and Alyse. In one corner of the room staple guns punctuate the air as chicken wire and boxes are assembled. A small group of students listen carefully in the back as they learn to operate the saw. On the side, a whiteboard begins to fill as a group debates title ideas. Everywhere, students are mixing glue, water, and newspaper to create larger than life sculptures.
Before our eyes emerge the bones of the structures we choose as a group: a suitcase, a duck, and a tree. Next week, special guest artists will help students bring these pieces to life. Stay tuned for more!
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OVERPOWERING DAYLIGHT WITH PORTABLE STROBE KIT
photography by:
Melanie Garcia Lopez
TIffany Parker
Kaitlyn Perez
Rhen Colocho
Ashley Chilel
Maya Hernandez
Helen Hernandez
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1/26/23
The big fire....a diverted lesson on photojournalism.
PHOTOGRAPHY BY:
Ibeth Bernal
Ashley Chilel
Melanie Garcia Lopez
Maya Hernandez
Kaitlyn Perez
Rhen Colocho
Aaron Calero
Kaleb Juarez
Andrew Mejia
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PANNING FOR MOVEMENT
In this lesson, the students were taught how to capture movement from action by panning with their cameras using slow shutter speeds. By doing so, the subject they are panning with stays in focus while everything else is showing movement.
Photography by:
Dalton Candor
Ana Contreras
Diego Gonzalez
Lucciano Mejia
Kaitlyn Perez
Violeta Zepeda
Matthew Zambram
Corina Urbina
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Portraiture with reflector and diffuser lesson PT 1
In this lesson, the class learned how natural light can be utilized with a reflector and diffuser while directing the model and composing their photograph. All photographs were shot with Canon cameras.
Photography by:
Esther Chavez, Andrea Hernandez, Matthew Zambrara, Dalton Cantor, Diego Gonzalez, Genesis Lopez, Tiffany Parker, Kaitlyn Perez, Lucciano Mejia, and Violeta Zepeda
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