Photography

I wanted to take a different approach towards this assignment. First, I asked myself what hope meant to me personally. After a while of thinking I realized that hope for the future and progression in people's perspectives is what I see as hope. I thought of expressing it by showing racial equality, LGBT rights and women's rights, but that seemed hard to do because I didn’t know how to properly express two out of those options. I figured sticking to the one that relates more to me which would be LGBT rights.

When I look around nowadays I see that we’ve had good progress with accepting others for the way they are, but it’s not enough. I see a lot of homophobia especially online and it really upsets me because not being straight isn’t something someone can change, love isn’t a choice. That’s just how some people are born and there's nothing wrong about it. Other than religious reasons (which I personally don’t agree with) there really isn’t a good excuse to hate LGBT people, they aren't affecting anyone's life by just living and I feel greatly for those who are killed just for the gender they prefer. I hope this generation is a changing point and we all become more accepting.