Emma Lewis writes about Chloe Jafe's I Give You my Life. She begins by discussing how Jafe captures women of the Yakuza and other powerful images of the subculture. The tattoos made the women feel powerful and independent. Their husbands had them and some wives didn't have any. The women wanted to feel something, and the ink supplied that feeling for them. Jafe had to gain trust and earn her way to the wife of the family boss. Jafe's photos that I have chosen are really powerful in the sense of the women getting the tattoos and where the influence they get it from. I like the photos because they do show emotion with unity, and at the same time shows the woman as an independant looking fierce wearing just tattoos of the culture.
Meera Sulaiman,
Her interaction with animals are amazing. A brave human being she is for going up to what some would consider dangerous beings, even though some are behind cages or glass. The underwater picture of the bear is just astonishing capture of the moment. The editing and composition of the person in the dark separates this picture from being an ordinary picture taken at the zoo. This picture make you feel like you're there and start to question could I be in danger, but notice that its a beautiful moment in all. The picture with the smaller creatures is an adorable shot and thought using a smaller human, with a smaller animal. Sulaiman shows the viewer the attention that all beings featured are giving. The kid shows the animal a toy and the photo portrays that the animals are intrigued and allows the viewer to place dialogue if we wanted. Sulaiman uses the animals and human interaction to point us somewhere in these two photos using eyes or fingers or even paws.
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