“What Makes a Great Photo?”
Objective: Read “What Makes a Great Photo?” and pick the artist whose statement you agree with the most and find a photo that embodies this statement.
I agree with Amy Elkin’s statement when she says that in order for a portrait to be good, there has to be a connection between the subject and the photographer. She refers to Israeli photographer Michal Chelbin who, she says, has the ability to make her subjects open up and give a lot of themselves in the photographs because she interacts with them in a good and comfortable way.
I think that this is really important, and I definitely think that the final picture reveals whether or not the subject felt comfortable with the photographer, and also whether or not the photographer was patient enough to wait for the right moment to take the picture.
I like this picture because it is not a “sit up straight and smile at the camera”-kind of portrait. The boy is relaxed and he is comfortable with the surroundings that he is in. Also, there is more to this photo than just a simple documentation of the boy - it raises a lot of questions in the viewer and it has a sense of mystery to it, which I think makes it intriguing.
