This is my contact sheet for the "Word" project, and my theme was "The world is my oyster." I took this to mean that the world was my oyster to harvest, and thus I had free artistic reign on the subjects I could photograph. Most of the pictures are of two of my close friends while we were downtown; it was there that I really felt like I understood the meaning of how much the world is truly a person's oyster, and that there is so much in life to take advantage of.
I felt that one of the most important things to capture in this assignment was the appearance of youth, since I feel like "youth" is one of the first things that comes to mind when I think of the world as my oyster.
What I also tried to accomplish was to capture the natural emotions of my subjects, although most of the expressions tend to be fairly enigmatic or neutral.
This was one of the more planned and directed images, as I purposely wanted an over animation of something so simple as going down an escalator. I wanted this picture to have a link to working class America, perhaps poking fun at both how much of our lifetimes are wasted working and commuting.
I enjoyed this picture because of the emotion and the carefree aspect that I found in it. While I still dislike the lack of symmetry (in that they aren't facing the same way) in my subject's hands, I find that it can offer more of a carefree look than if I had directed more thoroughly.
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