Hello it’s been a while since I posted on here . I’m done with school and I’m going to continue with this blog to mainly educate or teach people on what I learnt in school: something like giving back to the community. First thing I’m going to do as stated in my final project, is to educate people on some traditional symbols other than the Akan Adinkra symbols . I call this

 

.COMPILATION OF UNDER PUBLICISED GHANAIAN TRADITIONAL SYMBOLS.

With this, I did the Ewe and Ga traditional symbols. So stay tuned and watch this space for more . I hope you like and enjoy it. Share for others to know what’s going on and also learn. Thank You….

 

INTIMACY WITH THE WORLD PANDEMIC ‘CORONA VIRUS’

The pandemic came last two years but we actually experienced in 2020 and we were asked to document people on their INTIMACY WITH THE WORLD PANDEMIC ‘CORONA VIRUS’ so we were paired up with level 300’s on this one. the story is in but yet to do the video i just wanted to introduce my partner for this project.

well her name is TRISHA ARAH RUEEGGER . do not know much about her for now but i will later

just cant wait to dig into the documentary .

Ceremony 

.. in /with the events i decided to go with the funeral because i had an upcoming funeral. With this I went with a 5d mark ii , a zoom lense and a 50mm. The picture I chose is of a woman or the widow Crying.. the widow is crying but because of the mask she is wearing one will not see either if she is crying or not . And if we were to be in normal times, the friends or relatives of the widow would be around her hugging and consoling her but due to Covid 19 there are sitting around her looking and talking to her to calm down. Since there is a social distancing rule. people are seated not so close to each other and since there is a rule to always wear a mask whenever we leave the house, the woman and others in the picture are wearing one even the woman’s own is a customized mask to remember her late husband. 

Location: Kwadaso kumasi 

Event: funeral

Church:

Covid has brought about many changes in our lives. Wearing masks always, keeping our distance everywhere and every time even at churches and even at home with our families. This shoot was taken at church right after the main mass or service. The fathers were at the Altar ready to offer mass to the people. They were observing every Covid 19 rules or protocols i.e. wear a face mask , keep a distance between you and your friend or the one close to you. This is a major change in our lives because we gotta be apart from each other in church even fathers offering mass  and they also got to wear nose masks even when preaching to the congregation.

Location: Kwadaso kumasi 

Devic: 5dmark ii, 50mm

Event: Back to school 

This photography or shoot was taken while an organization called Afua pumpuni foundation decided to share books, pens and have a free haircut for students who were going back to school after school had been closed down for 3 or 4 months . This exercise was taken in the morning around 9 to 10 am. I singled out one little kid who had received her book and pen or pencil even though she wasn’t part of those going back to school. This is also the effect of Covid 19 because if it were to be in normal time’s, the kid would have been in school, and she wouldn’t have been in a nose mask .

Location:Bantama

Device: Canon 1300D , kit lense

Settings :100 /f 4.8/ 100 iso

Fashion

Covid 19 has brought about many changes and one major change it has brought in our live is our fashion. Sake of the nose mask rule everybody wants to match his or her nose masn to what they are wearing. Schools , companies, works, all have one matching outfit with the mask. With this shoot I took two girls, one dressed with nose masks matching their outfits . 

Location: Asuoyeboa kumasi 

Device: canon 1300d, 50mm and a softbox 

Settings : 100 /f2.8/ 100 iso

This is the second project and we were tasked to make another poster with social distancing . With this i went to a filling station close to my place to observe the social distancing at the place

With this topic we were tasked to create a photographic poster on with the first preventive measure which is wash you hands

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With this we were tasked to read about the Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs) and create conceptual photography on them. I choose .No Poverty .2 Gender Equality 3. Climate Action 4. Quality education .5 .Clean water and Sanitation

My photographs

After this this we were asked to make a brochure

Write up on

This happened in December don’t really remember the day but we were paired with fashion designers in level 400 they make the cloth we shoot . In this project the designers were to choose their motivation and use it in making a dress then we the photographers will choose the location with our partners, the style and the feel of the shoot (which should correspond with the motivation of the designer) my partner choose the hippies from the 80’s .

Born : March 1987 (age 32) Lancaster, Pennsylvania, U.S. Nationality : American Education: Temple University Known For: Photography Self Description: Intensely anxious, powerful little creative soul. Favorite Memory: Flying into the sky before she lost her wings at the age of 5. Greatest Achievement: Starting The Light Space, a photography school for survivors of human trafficking in India and now Thailand. Greatest Fear: Whales. Favorite Book: Dune by Frank Herbert. Self Description: Intensely anxious, powerful little creative soul. Favorite Memory: Flying into the sky before she lost her wings at the age of 5. Greatest Achievement: Starting The Light Space, a photography school for survivors of human trafficking in India and now Thailand. Greatest Fear: Whales. Favorite Book: Dune by Frank Herbert.

Shaden was raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and graduated from Temple University with bachelor’s degrees in Film and English. She began her photography career in Los Angeles, CA creating self-portraits. She started photography then in 2008, excited to create in solitude and take on character roles herself. Brooke works from a place of theme, often gravitating toward death and rebirth or beauty and decay . . She follows her curiosity into the unknown to see whom her characters might become. Brooke believes the greatest gift an artist has is the ability to channel fears, hopes and experience into a representation of one’s potential.

Brooke’s passion is storytelling, and her life is engulfed in it. From creating self-portraits and writing to international adventures and motivational speeches, she wants to live a thousand lives in one. She keeps her curiosity burning to live a truly interesting story.