by My Van | 2 Apr 2019 | Art, Contest winners, Discovery, Identity, Personal Reflections, Student Posts, Westover School, Youth Voices
Everyone prayed I would be a boy. I was born a baby girl. My photographs show how the genders “girl” and “boy” can coexist as they interact. Two figures standing in two doorways in front of a multicolored cyclorama, one figure bathed in green...
by Emma Juvan | 30 May 2018 | Art, Climate change, Contest winners, Contests, Donald Trump, Environment, Student Posts, United States, Westover School, Youth Voices
Humans are driving climate change — a fact many ignore. So I have captured our changing landscape in photos that show the consequences. Melting map of climate change patterns (all photos by Emma Juvan) This story shared first prize in the photography category in...
by Clio Morrison | 12 Feb 2018 | Art, Discovery, Friends Seminary, School Year Abroad, Student Posts, Youth Voices
“The darkroom is my sanctuary. I find peace in the red ambient light. I dodge and burn my images with purpose and passion.” The author, after a stint in the darkroom One minute in the developer, 30 seconds in the stop bath and two minutes in the fixer. I...
by News Decoder | 29 Sep 2016 | Art, Asia, China
(All photos by Mindy Tan) By Mindy Tan My fascination with Beijing’s hutongs began during the 2008 Olympics. I was reporting on the Games for a newspaper. A gleaming media bus took the visiting media from venue to venue, with unnaturally blue skies above us and eager...
by Alexandra Hawley | 26 May 2016 | Art, Student Posts, Westover School
“Society sets high expectations for beauty. We need to realize we are all beautiful in our own form.” – Photographer Alexandra Hawley — A photo essay by Alexandra Hawley — I decided to address “beauty” and the hurt that is...