Market During Quarantine

Egg&Milk

Ginger Mountain

Meat lovers

Vegetable lovers

Beans for soup

No more cooked food

Want more rice?

200 dollars

spoils!

What I found interesting of Teju Cole’s creation is “My Grandmother’s Shroud”. The picture portraits a scene that Teju Cole’s wife applies polish to Cole’s grandmother’s nail. Cole’s mother died in 2017, and Cole was not able to go back to Nigeria and see his grandmother for one last time. His grandmother was a native Nigerian and a Muslim. From the photo, we can see a young lady is holding a bottle of nail polish and trying to apply to an old lady’s nail. Cole found this picture after his grandmother’s death, and the recalled many memories with his grandmother, his mother, and also the stories about his grandmother.

One sentence that in the article really inspired me:“Images — paintings, sculptures, photographs — remind us how our loved ones looked in life. But in most places and at most times, portraiture was available only to society’s elites. Photography changed that. Almost everyone is now captured in photographs — and outlived by them.” This shows Cole’s attitude towards photography, that is not only taking pictures itself, but also a tool to recall memories, and express love and mourning to our loved ones.

Another thing is the mentioning of Muslim at the end of the article. It shows the “conflict” between politics in the U.S. and Muslim countries. After Cole read the policy about the travel restriction of six predominantly Muslim country, Cole said, “the cruelty and absurdity of the policy was vivid. It felt personal.” From the photo, his grandmother’s life is vivid and seems has just passed. However, in real world, many people in the U.S. can neither go back to their home country to see their families for various reasons, nor invite them to come to the U.S due to the policy restriction.

In conclusion, Teju Cole relates his personal story to a huge amount of people by the format of photo and text, and provokes us to think more about the world.

Protanopia–lack red color

Deuteranopes–lack green

Triitanopia–lack blue

Anomalus Trichromacy–pigment shift

Nightmare

Vivian Dorothy Maier (February 1, 1926 – April 21, 2009) was an American street photographer whose work was not discovered and recognized until after her death. Maier’s photographs were first published on the Internet in July 2008, by Slattery, but the work received little response. Here are some of her works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian_Maier

–Morning person

 

— spring switch break

 

 

 

–Green nose

 

–Crew only?

 

–Woke up with purple

–Reflections

 

–Black&White Prom

 

–My true loves

–Electronic Life

Zhou Qi: Mint green

Qi likes light gree. For him, green means vitality, hope and life. He thinks green is a color can make people release pressure. Another reason is he likes mint flavor a lot. He said couldn’t live with peppermint candy. He doesn’t know is he loves mint because of its color or he loves green because of mint.

Chaosong Yan:   Dark Blue

For Yan, color is important for people to escape from back & white and tedious.  As a computer science major student, he was familiar with identifying color by using chroma and hue. He is not very familiar with brightness since it is excluded by the program in coding. His favorite color is dark blue. He was growing up with low self-esteem because of fat. However, he remembered once he wore a blue shirt and received much praise in his childhood. He subconsciously bought many decorations in blue color, especially in his personal and relax areas such as the bathroom and bedroom.