The week before Thanksgiving Break I posted 13 photographs around campus with the prompt: “Respond to what you see! Write on me.”
Based on response levels, I eventually consolidated the photos into Penrose Library. As an anthropology major and photographer, image interpretation is fascinating to me. It was especially thrilling to watch our community react in very diverse ways and challenge each other’s comments. I hope this project can serve to illuminate a slice of human experience and thought, and promote new engagement with subjects that lurk near the boundaries of polite conversation. Thank you so much to everyone who contributed.
Here is a selection of the photographs. All were taken in Walla Walla by Marie von Hafften ’13.
