Meeting with Reality
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Authors
Amaya, Osman
Issue Date
2024-09-01
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Thesis
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The reason I wanted to create this project, for starters, the community. I wanted to highlight the immigrant community in their effort to continue to put food on the plate, for continuing to make rent every month, for continuing to influence and give color to a country stained by power. We encapsule resistance. Everything that is to be acquired requires something in exchange. Sweat, tears, blood, sleepless nights, early mornings, days of exhaustion. Just a few interchangeable. The much that you plant will be what you reap. Although not exactly the case for those trying to harvest a future in a continuously changing system that provides floods containing fees, droughts of opportunities, and land displacements that make common labor standards not entirely applicable. Meeting with Reality comes from a place deep in the streets of Los Angeles. I started getting ideas to work around this topic within a certain artistic medium back in COVID times. That is when I became a practitioner of photography. As many, I started with the camera from my cellphone. The material I needed to develop a continuous conjunction of photos was all around me, it was the people that have always been around me. I had heroes, geniuses, businesswomen, entrepreneurs, survivors, and dreamers. Stories to tell, living proof that success doesn’t always equal to a sum of monetary belongings.
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25 p.
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