Final Project- 3rd shoot

I was able to photograph Ali at work at the Hampton Inn for a little bit this afternoon. Here's a few selects.

Final Project - 2nd Shoot

Yesterday I was able to photograph Ali and his family again. This time I felt more comfortable taking photos, however, sometimes I still have a hard time getting Ali to act more natural. He often wants to be more of a host to me rather than just going about his day. I'm hoping that when I go to photograph him at work it'll be better. Also since his wife was at work, he didn't do any gardening because it's something they like to do together so I'm hoping I can still shoot that sometime soon. Here are a few of my favorites.

Final Project - 1st shoot

For my final project I am working with a man named Ali who is an Iraqi refugee living in Columbia with his wife and daughter. The first time I met with him I didn't take any photos because I just wanted to get to know him. Tonight I was able to meet his wife and daughter and spent some time with them as well. I took a few photos but not many because I'm still getting to know them. Tonight I accompanied them to Menards to look for things for their garden that they are working on at their new home. Ali said they like to go look for fun and to get ideas for their garden even though they can't always buy. After Menards they went to get coffee at Starbucks. Here are a few photos that I took while with them tonight.

Little 500

So over the weekend I went to the Little 500 race at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. It's a 200 lap bicycle race that students compete in. This year there were 33 teams and it took a little over 2 hours for the winner to complete the race. I didn't have my good camera with me, but I took some photos with my point and shoot from the stands. It would have been really fun to shoot if I had my camera and proper credentials but either way I still took some good photos and thought I'd share!

This was during the singing of the National Anthem  - pretty cool that they had a parachute jumper with an American flag.

 

Portraits on the Quad

My boyfriend's mom asked me to take photos of him for graduation announcements today. I hadn't taken the stereotypical picture of the columns before so I was excited for the excuse to do so. We were in a bit of a rush so unfortunately I didn't have as much time to play as I would have liked but oh well, here's what I've got!

Final Food Project

This is my final edit for my food allergy project. In retrospect, there are things I would have liked to have done that I either didn't think of until too late or that just simply didn't work out. But all in all, I'm glad I was able to find this subject and thought I got a great interview from her.



Untitled from Ally Appelbaum on Vimeo.

A new direction for my food project

So while on spring break I was able to meet up with a high school girl in St. Louis who had a severe peanut allergy. I worked with her and was able to photograph her and do an audio interview with her, however, the family was a little weird about where I could photograph. I wasn't able to photograph her in her home or at school, so I basically have pictures of her grocery shopping with her mom and going out to eat. I think the audio is really going to carry this story, but overall I'm glad I was able to meet with her.
Here are a few of my favorite photos that I plan on using in the short multimedia piece.