Upstate girls

After looking through many pictures of the year winners submissions, I chose to focus on the Community Awareness Award winner Brenda Ann Kenneally's gallery entitled, "Upstate Girls." These 40 pictures were extremely moving and the captions provided insight into the lives of the women being photographed. When taking a picture, the photographer must pay special attention to composition, contrast, content and context. The way these pictures were shot in black in white with strong contrast plays up the drama and the intensity of the situation being photographed. The story of these girls lives could be broken up and presented as 40 pictures of each individual girl. The way Kenneally combined so many different girls throughout the 40-picture gallery kept the flow exciting but sometimes confusing. Jumping from subject to subject was hard to follow and trying to cram 10 different girls lives into a series of 40 pictures was often hard to see the beginning, middle and end.