This project is called community portraits. Ms. Tina asked us to go around Seattle and ask random people the question: "What do i care about?" and take their photo with what they wrote down. Since people might hesitant to take a face shot, my partner, Natalie and I suggested to people to take a photo of only their hands.In the end, taking pictures of hands turned out to be a good perspective for most of the pictures. Surprisingly, some of our pictures seem to give hints to the viewer and make it predictable to what the participants will respond with. For example, a woman wrote down "Kids" and the little details of her keys to her mini van and playful purple nail justifies her response. One man wrote down "sleep", Natalie and I laughed at his response but thinking about it now the guy was riding his bike. In the picture the bike seat frames the bottom part of the picture. We never figured out how long of a distance he rides or how often he rides his bike but i'm sure he needs plenty of sleep for all that peddling. A strange response to the question, 'What do I care bout?' was: "Homeostasis." Need a refresher on what Homeostasis is, huh? Well, according to Biology-Online.org, Homeostasis is how "humans and animals regulate certain conditions within their bodies to continue a steady, healthy functioning body. From his response and his forest green zip-up sweatshirt, I would predict he is a bio-engineer or mainly focuses on biology in his daily work.
*Note: The following pictures are in the order we encountered them.
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