Senior Media

Alexis Metz-Szedlacsek, Ashley Larson, Brendan Wilson, Caleb Andrews, Hope Koyama, Kerisa Lin, Madeline Rackerby, Mary Stang, Maxwell Kelly, Nalani Tran, Sijing Yang, Somaly Son, Trae Whyte, Xelestiál Moreno-Luz, Yuchen Gao

My photography project The Other Half consists mainly two sets of photos. One is the photographs of my grandparents I took using means of documentary and staged photography, and the other half is the photographs they took for each other using a point-and-shoot camera. Photos taken by me will be printed on larger sheets of paper, while photos taken by my grandparents will be printed in 4"x6" sizes.

At the beginning, the purpose of this project was to explore the relationship between my grandparents, which I see as unreciprocated and I define as my grandmother’s unrequited love to my grandfather. But the presence of the camera in the relationship changes something. When I hold the camera, it is cold, judgmental and critical, it is even arrogant, it is an outsider. When I hand the camera to their hands, the role of the camera changes. It starts to have emotions and becomes an agency for communication between them. This is where the other half of the relationship emerges and where the title comes into being. Sometimes we only see half the truth, and this project hopes to try to admit the complexity of a relationship, or any relationships. –Sijing Yang