I see the future as being a reflection of the past. The three photos I have chosen both tell a story and show reflections. In each photo the person is unknown, allowing the viewers to interpret the photo with their own person stories. The viewers can place themselves in the photo and show their own reflection of their past and even their future to come. These photos are indescribable since they tell a different unique story to everyone.

Laura Rounds

Photography to me is more than just a hobby. It is more like a therapy that inspires me to make something out of my life and appreciate the beautiful things God has given me.

Maria Carballar

In the dim lit corner of a hospital room lays the bed where a woman recovers. An IV trickles the numbing remedy, letting all the bones in her body gush like blood. In her hazy state she sits, letting time heal the wounds that hide in her skin. Only the deceased in the back of her mind push her back to life. The heart monitor slowly beeps, proving that hope has not left yet. A human being just as you and me leaves a path for others to follow. Even with death dancing on her body this woman, sister, lover, mother does not cower. She lies in cotton wearing a soft smile, with her delicate determination to see tomorrow.

Nicholas Calhoun

“Self-portraiture allows the photographer a unique control that cannot be replicated with any other subject. The photographs capture the contradiction of individual isolation and the sameness between all of us. As such, even though the subject is always me, I am a stand-in for the pressure young people place on each other not to stand out too much…to be safely homogeneous. Whether framed, in an auditorium, or in a closet, the constraints are always present, even though I choose to conform.”

Sophie Schwartz

“If you could have one super power, what would it be? To fly? To teleport? How about to read minds? Photography is a way that I can allow a viewer to read into segments of my thoughts and feelings on a particular subject. In this series, the three photos I chose express my thoughts on the clash between religion, elegance and sex.”

Sasha Frolova

“I am frequently exposed to pictures of ridiculously skinny women, happy and healthy with tiny waists and sporting size zero clothing articles with huge smiles on their faces as if being so thin made them the happiest women in the world. Being confronted with these images time and time again has a deteriorating effect on a girl’s self-esteem (or at least my self esteem). Too many girls my age torture themselves to look like the photoshopped women they see in advertisements, television, magazines. By taking self portraits of myself, I feel like I have grown to accept my own beauty. I feel like my pictures symbolize the power I have to push past these expectations and pressures placed on women.”

Haley Brown