The image of the girls in Rosalind Solomon photo is vivid in its portrayal of girls in a South African School. The photo is in black and white which gives it a very sober image, not too colorful and flambouyant but very definitive in putting across what it is meant to explain.
The contrast in the color is not very strong but all the audience can really read meanings from the message easily. The lunch the girls are holding in the photograph could not be much clearer in a color background photograph.
The photographer chose six girls for a good reason which represents a good sample of what a typical female school could look like. Perhaps the photographer could have added a little more message to explain that the girls are in a school of the deaf. Without any such clear message it is difficult for the audience to come to the conclusion that this is a school for the deaf.
Probably if the picture was taken at the entrance of the school with the sign that says school for the deaf or something of the sort.
The message of the photo depends on the reader looking at it. As an African I see it as a aberration of what usually pertain in the media of what Africa looks like.The fact girls are able to attend school to the extent that they have a school specifically for the deaf is a revolutionary idea comparing to what one usually comes across in the media.
The photo taken in a specifice mood is very interesting because it represents a true and sensitive summation of the feelings and emotions that arise in a crowd or populace of people who share the same challenge. The attitude of the girls are different in a number of way. Some are just sober , others indifferent without any emotional displays while other are happy with what looks like reluctant smiles and others surprised,shocked or amazed at something.
The concepts of individuality and collective challenge that face each and everyone of them is shown in the way they are together on a lunch time. They are different from each other and yet together because they are all deaf. The hope lies in the fact that they have a good chance at education.
The most important concept is the fact that these girls do not look bad in tattered clothes or scantily dressed in a typically destitute situation like other African girls will be shown. This is what the central message of the photo is. The idea that there is not much difference between these girls and any other girls anywhere except they are deaf.
The elements that bring the picture together as a good piece include the background the number of girls he thought is enough to portray his idea of poverty,disadvantage and a hope in the fact that things are about to be better that it would have been without education.
The contrast in the color is not very strong but all the audience can really read meanings from the message easily. The lunch the girls are holding in the photograph could not be much clearer in a color background photograph.
The photographer chose six girls for a good reason which represents a good sample of what a typical female school could look like. Perhaps the photographer could have added a little more message to explain that the girls are in a school of the deaf. Without any such clear message it is difficult for the audience to come to the conclusion that this is a school for the deaf.
Probably if the picture was taken at the entrance of the school with the sign that says school for the deaf or something of the sort.
The message of the photo depends on the reader looking at it. As an African I see it as a aberration of what usually pertain in the media of what Africa looks like.The fact girls are able to attend school to the extent that they have a school specifically for the deaf is a revolutionary idea comparing to what one usually comes across in the media.
The photo taken in a specifice mood is very interesting because it represents a true and sensitive summation of the feelings and emotions that arise in a crowd or populace of people who share the same challenge. The attitude of the girls are different in a number of way. Some are just sober , others indifferent without any emotional displays while other are happy with what looks like reluctant smiles and others surprised,shocked or amazed at something.
The concepts of individuality and collective challenge that face each and everyone of them is shown in the way they are together on a lunch time. They are different from each other and yet together because they are all deaf. The hope lies in the fact that they have a good chance at education.
The most important concept is the fact that these girls do not look bad in tattered clothes or scantily dressed in a typically destitute situation like other African girls will be shown. This is what the central message of the photo is. The idea that there is not much difference between these girls and any other girls anywhere except they are deaf.
The elements that bring the picture together as a good piece include the background the number of girls he thought is enough to portray his idea of poverty,disadvantage and a hope in the fact that things are about to be better that it would have been without education.
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