Everyone is busy getting ready for the end of the semester. Beginning students are working on the light, shadow, reflection assignment and getting their final portfolios together. Advanced students have a final project to do. This is a project designed to stretch their imaginations and show me what they can do with the photographic knowledge they have.
Here is a video on an amazing discovery in Chicago sent to me by Sienna, one of my advanced students. It tells the story of a woman named Vivian Maier, a nanny, who took thousands of amazing photographs on the streets of Chicago through her lifetime and never showed them to anyone. Her photographs were recently discovered and some say they are on par with Walker Evans and Robert Frank.
