Comments on: time magazine: class pictures

By: laura

laura — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:01:00 +0000

this looks and sounds great. i can absolutely imagine it’s moving to see their life stories.

By: darla - zoogal

darla - zoogal — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:54:14 +0000

trisha… wow. those portraits are really wonderful. for someone who struggled/struggles with self esteem issues my whole life, it’s VERY hard for me to look into the camera directly. i put my head down/look down a lot. the more self portraits i do, however, i am getting a little bit better about looking into the camera – but usually there is a “prop” somewhere in front of my face. it sounds like these kids, like you said, had their share of hard times, so why am i letting something like poor self esteem get in my way? this post was very eye-opening and inspirational. thank you. and i am going to remember this as well when i shoot portraits of others. there is one portrait i did of my dad and daughter that is just amazingly lovely, and it is them, looking straight into the camera, no frills. it’s one of my favorites.

By: Leilani

Leilani — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:27:02 +0000

How funny, Dawoud Bey is going to be my professor this semester… I’m currently a graduate student of photography at Columbia College Chicago where he teaches. I didn’t realize he was in Time recently, I’ll have to pick up a copy!

By: Through The Looking Glass » Blog Archive » Class Pictures

Through The Looking Glass » Blog Archive » Class Pictures — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:54:19 +0000

[...] I am blown away by these portraits of high school students by Dawoud Bey. They remind me of my father’s style of photograph: no unnecessary glamour, just people. Via Tricia Royal. [...]

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:23:31 +0000

Whoa! I went to college with the girl in the last picture.

By: annie

annie — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:29:18 +0000

last year i went to the contemporary jewish museum in SF and saw a few of the portraits in person. they are really cool to see in person and i enjoyed hearing their stories

By: jennifer

jennifer — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:19:53 +0000

i am in perfect agreeance with you. i have explained this exact thing to my sister not too long ago.

By: Kirsten

Kirsten — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:33:10 +0000

Wow! These are really stunning. I work in youth development and it’s so nice to see a mass-market media outlet emphasizing the resilience and powerful smarts of today’s young people. So much of the time, the media and (therefore) many adults repeat negative stereotypes about teens and young people without really knowing them, talking to them, learning about their perspectives. Great link!

By: Annika

Annika — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:05:41 +0000

What an amazing series of photographs. The style reminds me so much of my father’s photography. You might like his series of portraits of waitresses: http://www.downtownwaitressproject.com/