Busy! Busy! Busy!

Busy! Busy! Busy! The deadline for the first draft is quickly approaching here at Voices, and everyone is working away! The first draft is really the time where people begin to see a good outline of their stories. 1,000 words sound like an awful lot, but with everyone’s’ ideas overflowing for their stories usually the writing needs to be cut down some.

Last Thursday we went on a field trip to see the photo gallery “Making a Photograph - Iconic Images and Their Origins” at the Center for Creative Photography. We got to see famous works by Ansel Adams, Richard Avedon, Wynn Bullock, Harry Callahan, Frederick Sommer, Garry Winogrand, and many others. It was a great experience to be able to see how certain photos gain such popularity through new techniques, tackling daring issues, and showing new ways to look at things (it sounds a lot like what Voices does). We were also able to see the history of the first commercial photo galleries: Limelight, the Witkin Gallery, and LIGHT.

It is truly amazing how much photography has grown in recent years. A short time ago photography was not even viewed as a true art form, and now look at where it is. I think the youth creating 110˚ really strive to show how far the art of photography has come through their work.

Right now we are trying to name our KXCI radio modules; if you have any awesome names please e-mail me at melinda@voicesinc.org!

Thanks for reading and please tune in next week for even more exciting Voices action!

-Melinda