Julia Kipnis

A modern convenience I can’t live without is electricity. Access to electricity is vital in our modern day world. Without electricity, freestyle academy would cease to exist. I took a picture of city lights to show the large scale reliance on electricity.

This weeks photoblog task was to portray one of the seven deadly sins. I chose to illustrate the sin of gluttony using this picture of my friends devouring some burritos.

This photoblog is all about story telling through film noir style photography. Film noir is characterized by low lighting and dramatic shadows. The silhouettes and shadowy faces in this photograph fit the film noir theme perfectly.

This photoblog challenge task was to show color without using color. I took this picture of weird mini pumpkins in black and white. I saw that even though we can’t see the true hues of the pumpkins, the variation in black and white tones show the beautiful and distinct color variation.

Every lunch, my friends and I find each other in the bpl and rush to get food. This photoblog shares a story of a 40 minute lunch break where we decided to go to nijiya market to get some sushi and snacks. 🙂

Here in the bay, we all come from unique cultural backgrounds. For this photoblog challenge, I chose to show something that brings us all together. In n Out. To me, In n Out is a huge part of California culture. No matter our background our identity, at the end of the day we can all…

For the first photoblog of May we were tasked with exploring the beauty of spring through flowers. I took this picture of some flowers outside of the digital media classroom. The beauty and little details around the freestyle campus always bring me joy :).

This weeks photoblog challenge was telling the story of a stranger. Today I had the pleasure of meeting Billy, Lily’s alter ego. He is a truck driver. He made a pit stop at taco bell, where I was able to meet him. He didn’t want to be photographed so I had to be sneaky. I…

This weeks photoblog challenge was to tell the story of aging through a photograph. I took this picture of my grandfather. My grandfather has had one of the most unique lives ever, he even lived in the arctic circle with polar bears! Every wrinkle on his face tells it’s own story.

For this photoblog we were prompted to use shadows to tell a story. I used the shadows of my friend’s hands on this tree to create a sense of mystery and eeriness.