This photo i took of my grandpa at his birthday party after his stroke (the date is incorrect). it was taken because it was his birthday and his family really wanted to celebrate. for the most part he was just barely at the point for visitors just a couple weeks after being out of the hospital where he had been kept doped up so they didn't have to deal with him. He could say a few words but mostly said "i don't know" as a default. I chose it because it means a lot to me personally and since this photo he has overcome a lot and is living on his own again. Emotionally this was really hard on the family including me to see him like this and knowing that the hospital treated him the way they did, but it was definitely a sweet moment to get to spend with him and an awesome celebration of life. the context for the image is that you can definitely tell its his birthday, i don't know if anyone but our family would appreciate this photo, but as long as anyone remembers my grandpa they will cherish this. I will definitely remember the photo in ten years.

This photo was taken of me by a friend. This photo was taken as a memento by my friends for Cory who is getting a tattoo, probably as proof of the pain. I keep it because not only is it proof that i have done a tattoo before, but it was also a pretty sweet one. This was the biggest piece i had ever done it took 4hrs and I did all the design for it as well. I had taken an apprenticeship over the summer and this was the fruit of my unpaid labor. The photographer was my friend and to be honest it was either a girl I used to have a thing with or her best friend(i can't remember). I  don't think that a relationship effected this photo because the focus is on Cory. I'm sure this photograph was made to be viewed on facebook for as long as Cory likes his tattoos. probably will be viewed by his friends and facebook stalkers. i probably won't remember the photo in ten years, but definitely the event of doing this tattoo.

this is taken of someone i don't know by someone i don't know. this photo was taken to be documentary of a certain group of people. i keep it because this is the kind of photograph i would like to take one day. i chose it for this assignment because it is uber popular and i love it. its significant to me because it reminds me i need to see more of the world, see people that are not in their comfort zones because they have no permanent home and that the time we live in is not this super modernized advanced culture, but an antiquated world with pockets of grand technology. emotionally im not sure if there is a connection the guy who shot for national geographic had spent all day shooting at a school for nomadic people and it was also while a war was going on. i'm sure there we're emotions but i can't even comprehend the complexity of it without being there. mostly if i could guess i think he was shock by the intensity and the passive yet intense anger of a child. i think that is why this photo was so successful and he has a certain reverence for her, a respect for her justified rage. the subjects attitude towards the photographer is one of indifference and anger.