NEWS STORY: WHY DOESN'T UWM OFFER ORGANIC FOOD?
Insurance, other concerns are stumbling blocks



Universities across the nation, including several Wisconsin colleges, are noshing on organic potatoes, blue corn chips, and parsnips as part of an $18 billion dollar industry offering fresh alternatives to student appetites. But, where is University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in this organic movement? The school offers Burger King, Taco Bell, and a variety of other menu options, but organic food choices are absent. But this does not mean buying an organic salad in the Union will remain impossible.

(Photo by Vanessa Weber)

PR Project

Pictures taken for Front Page Milwaukee
organics story.

Pictures taken for The UWM Post, but
formating issues occured, and there
wasn't enough room for photograph.














Picture published in UWM Post.

Now how did we find ourselves here?





Oh she's gonna use it alright.


Ed...a.k.a. the guy who got his nipple pierced.


"Does anybody even know where we are?"


The time that contemplation would be taking place...



The Bed of Change.


The many intricate tattoo designs.


The design that was found on a bar coaster...


Scalpel...getting a tattoo, or going into surgery?


Where's a good friend when ya need one...
busy doing a photo essay.


Shouldn't you be more tense, oh yeah



NO TURNING BACK


Relax Megan, at least your face doesn't look like
this guys arm.





"Don't take a picture of my bad ear"


"Oh by the way, can you sign this contract that
you won't sue us."...after we've branded your body.

Are you better in front or behind the camera?
How does it feel to be photographed?
I think that I enjoy being behind the camera rather than being in front of it, but I like to think I'm pretty photogenic. I love looking through a frame and being given the canvas of a photograph; being able to make the choice of how to frame something beautiful or enticing. I also love to be photographed as well though. Being photographed makes me feel important, that someone wants to save my existence forever through a piece of art. I'm very comfortable in front of the camera, just as comfortable as I am behind it; both positions relax me and feel natural.

How do you tell a story with images?
To tell a story with images you must treat the camera exactly like your eye. It is important to see different angles and vantage points in order to understand the parameters of the story and the space that it is told in. The photographer must do their best to capture emotion and important moments of the event. To capture these moments and tell a story with them, the camera must be ready at all times. It helps to think of the photo shoot in terms of a song, movie, book, or anything that has a narrative of words. Although it is not totally necessary, placing the photos in a particular order also helps move the story fluidly.

Differences between a photograph and the thing itsef
Dorethea Lange said, "Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still." A photograph is a moment frozen in time forever. People are things and they are ever changing. If a portrait is really good, looking at it should give the viewer some insight to who the person is. Paul Strand said, "It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness." Even if it doesn't do this accurately the portrait seems to tell a story about the person in it. This makes a photograph (the portrait) very different from the thing itself (person). A person is ever chaning, while a photograph stays the same forever. The second the photograph is taken the person is duplicated in a sense, and is turned into a piece of art for many to view. One thing that photographs and people certainly have in common, is the way they are judged, picked apart, and analyzed by all who see. While a photograph and people have many layers, a person has the ability to speak for themselves, but in a portrait the photographer is given the ability to speak for the subject.

Earliest Memory
My earliest memory is of me driving. The car was purple, had four wheels, and was powered by my feet. The roof was round like a Volkswagen, but lacked windows. I know this memory has been mixed with a photograph that exists of me; I'm in the driver's seat. Therefore, the "memory" includes a big smile on my face, pigtails, a bright read shirt, and a Christmas tree in the background. What I know I remember for sure, is the opening and closing of the tiny plastic door that let me in and out. I remember that this is what aided me in learning how to open a car door. I remember this is what I would nag my big brother about helping me with. What's strange now is that I'm not a big fan of purple, I'm twenty-one and have no automobile, but I am dying to buy a Volkswagen.

When is my favorite time of day? What is the light like then?
My favorite time of day is dusk. Of course the time changes as the year changes. Needless to say, there is nothing like the viewing of the suns final rays, the last moments of color, in the sky before the black of night. Dusk occurs right before the sky goes black. It is said that this is the time that the human eye can see the least sharply and therefore dusk is the most dangerous time to drive. This is why I sit on my porch and watch the night fall. If I'm lucky the sky is a purple-pink-bluish and the light is very dim. It is the perfect time of day to look up at trees making silhouettes on the sky. It is the perfect time to be outside sitting with someone who know well. There is no need to see what they look like therefore you focus on their silhouette and tones of their voice. Your eyes adjust quickly and enjoy the humbleness of the light, but are quickly fooled as the darkness vastly sets in. For that thirty minutes, if you're lucky, there is a light that must be impossible to recreate artificially.