Here’s something different: costumes. Last semester, the Tufts Drama and Dance Department offered a class called “Sew-cial Activism,” where students studied costuming as a form of political statement and made their own political costumes. See if you can guess what all these costumes are about. You can mouse over the images to see the answers.
Ocean pollution
Ocean pollution
Women’s rights
Women’s rights
Women’s rights
Mental illness and medication
Mental illness and medication
Women’s rights
Personal space and boundaries
Personal space and boundaries
Societal labels vs. self-perception
Societal labels vs. self-perception
Performance – Putting on a happy mask to conceal negative feelings
Performance – Putting on a happy mask to conceal negative feelings
Performance – Putting on a happy mask to conceal negative feelings
Performance – Putting on a happy mask to conceal negative feelings
Just past this graffiti, they’ve been building a retaining wall all summer. When I passed it on the last day of my internship recently, the wall was done and a restaurant had set up bicycle-themed lighting. It’s been cool seeing the facade slowly shape up all summer — it started with a patch of dirt…
This was the last dance show I shot at Tufts before graduating! It was a bittersweet moment for me and I imagine it felt that way for the dancers who were graduating too. What a great last show. P.S. The dance group Wuzee are in the second image. I’ve shot for them before too.
Here’s some more work for Tufts Dining, this time of the annual Under the Sea event. I teamed up with Yang Lowe, a new photography intern, who styled some plates of seafood for me.
Arlington resident Jeffrey Alexander loves astronomy so much he shares his telescope with everyone in the summer. I went to one of his stargazing events last week. Read about it on Icons of Arlington.
It’s disheartening to fully apprehend just how alone you are in your body, how alone you are in your head. You already know you’re alone, but you don’t really believe it until you experience it in such an extreme way.
Here are some shots from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where we saw a great exhibit of Michael Nichols’ wildlife photography. Also, there was a rainbow!