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-14 posts tagged "photography"
Willoughby Thom | Thursday, September 24, 2020
Photography is something that we take for granted these days. We are constantly taking snap-shots of our lives through our cell phones, and we are forgetting about the essence of the photo in which we are taking. I believe the art of photography has been forgotten. Due to its accessibility, we have begun to know
Allison Thornton | Tuesday, April 28, 2020
When I was younger, the question of “what I wanted to be when I grew up” was always something I looked forward to answering. Because when I was six years old, the answer came so easily to me and I was excited to tell everyone. I wanted to become an archaeologist, who was also a
Observer Staff Report | Wednesday, August 7, 2019
Mike Bennett, a photographer who spent nearly 40 years capturing major moments in Notre Dame athletics history, died Monday after a short battle with cancer, according to a University press release published Tuesday. He was 69 years old. Bennett was a ubiquitous presence at University sporting events, the release said. “Often armed with multiple cameras and
Aaron Benavides | Friday, March 1, 2019
Steven Hoelscher, a professor of American Studies and geography at the University of Texas at Austin, spoke about forced labor and torture in Georgia prisons during the Jim Crow era at a lecture Thursday evening at the Snite Museum of Art. The lecture was co-sponsored by the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, department
Maria Leontaras | Tuesday, April 17, 2018
It all began with a spring break trip and a travel video edited with iMovie. Saint Mary’s junior Alyssa Jones utilized her passion for photography and videography to create a business in 2015 upon which she plans to build her future. Jones began her business, L Film & Photography, after an old friend’s mother reached
Maeve Filbin | Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Professor Douglas Tyler gave his “Introduction to Digital Photography” students a simple instruction: Construct a diary illustrating daily life through a camera lens. The result was “Digital Diaries,” an exhibit on display since mid-February in the Saint Mary’s Cushwa-Leighton Library that explores the mundanities of everyday life through a digital photography series. Tyler said his students
Nora McGreevy and Adam Ramos | Monday, February 19, 2018
“I don’t have an official title,” Jacob Titus told us before grudgingly referring to himself as the “owner” of West.SB. All three of us — Titus, Scene Editor Adam Ramos and Associate Scene Editor Nora McGreevy — were seated in a pristine white room, one of many new office spaces in the renovated Studebaker Building 113
Maeve Filbin | Wednesday, September 20, 2017
By the start of her freshman year at Saint Mary’s, Elise deSomer (’17) said she knew she would be a professional photographer. DeSomer started her Michiana photography business, Elise Imagery, as a high school blog and has since transformed it into a full-fledged career specializing in portraits and unique artwork. Having graduated from the College as
Michael Yu | Friday, May 19, 2017
At the beginning of the year, I wrote a column about how I was going into senior year with some diffidence because of how little I took photos of myself enjoying the company of my friends. I may have taken dozens of thousands of photos for The Observer, but I’ve seldom appeared on the other
Aidan Lewis | Wednesday, December 7, 2016
Tasked with contributing a photograph about gun violence in America to the Snite Museum of Art, four students in the PhotoFutures program unveiled their choices at the museum Wednesday evening. The students selected a photograph from photographer Carlos Javier Ortiz’s “We All We Got” project. The image focuses on a pool of blood while a