Activism through Art

This assignment was inspired by the yellow boat play, it is currently being performed here at our school(SDSCPA). This is a wonderful play about a child who gets AIDS because of a blood transfusion, but always try's to see the brighter side of things, a very optimistic kid. This is true and very uplifting and sad story. When  Ms. Miles assigned this project to show activism through a photograph I just couldn't figure out what I should do for a couple of days. It was hard I wanted to take a great photo that drew attention to this horrible illness and I didn't want to offend anyone or be inappropriate . I never took a photo that had to show any kind of activism, but after a while i got a hang of it and i took a couple of different shots. first i thought about how AIDS just takes over your body and destroys your immune system so i decided to take multiple shots of a flower slowly falling apart and them i remembered that there was this building on campus that was crumbling on the bottom and I thought that would be good to show how the infection destroys peoples body. I began to do some research on AIDS because I didn't feel well informed and thats what led me to the next shoots I took of Ashley Reed holding some pills, I decided to do this because I found out that people have to take medication at a certain time, everyday to keep their body healthy. The pills that they must take are very toxic for your body and make you sick for a certain amount of time before your body gets used to them. I thought that all the ideas I had were pretty good, my favorite picture is the one with just hands and all the pills, I took a lot of time fixing it on photoshop. I learned how to make the picture look gritty, and i changed the lighting of it.