Wendy Ewald is a photographer born in Michigan whose work specialises in capturing how children should ‘see’. This relationship is a gateway into how we can except the different relationships of different children between society, culture and multiple generations. It is said she uses “the camera as a tool of expression. Significantly meaning that her connection with characters in her images are able to relate with the reader in various relationships and contexts. In recent years, Ewald had produced conceptual instillations in Michigan and even England. I felt Wendy was an ideal artist to receive information and experimentation from as I was able to justify my ideas of presenting people and telling their stories through dictating the photographs.

Wendy’s work is easily recognizable as the facial expressions are very clear and immediately let the reader know the context and emotion of these images.

Wendy shows an illiterate image of a community and family, as I think she wanted to reflect the different relationships between this group of people.

The words in Wendy’s images reflects a too the point way of interpreting an image. This makes the reader connect with this character as can be seen as relatable through the emotions.

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Wendy adapts to the environment when blowing up her images, and does this possibly to create awareness to the community and families. With connection to my own personal study, I think Wendy Ewald’s work perpetrates the boundaries of what normal people consider. Using large scale prints, she is able to get across these messages of stereotyping by using text as well as print.

My Interpretations of Wendy: 

 

Themes: Stereo Typing /  Violence / Community / Change