An Expert on My Field

If I have to choose an expert on my field, I would pick Vivian Maier. She was a street photographer, but most of her life, she worked as a nanny.
She was born in New York, on February 1, 1926. But when she was 25 year-old, she moved to Chicago, where she worked as a nanny for the next 40 years of her life.
She worked for two different families  the Gensburgs and the Raymonds. In her free time, she went to Chicago's streets and took photographs of the people and architecture , with a Rolleiflex camera.
In 1959 and 1960, Maier took a trip on her own, photographing different places like Los Angeles, Beijing, India and Italy.
She took more than 150000 photographs, and she had many boxes of her materials.
Two years before her death, she didn't pay her storage space she rented on Chicago's North Side. so her negatives, photographs and all of her work, were auctioned.
 Three photo collectors bought parts of her work: John Maloof, Ron Slattery and Randy Prow.
Her work was known on the internet, because of these collectors, and it has been in gallery exhibitions, several books, and two documentary films.


I like her, because her photographs are really special, and she could capture the people on her images. Her photographs, also show the history in the streets and the city, in a very beautiful way. And she is a real discovery in the area of photography.
Besides, I think that her life was one of the kind, because she didn't care about the fame or the money, she only wanted to take photographs.

My Favorite Movie

I have a lot of movies that I love…so choose one it´s very difficult.
But one of my favorite movies is Girl Interrupted.

Winona Ryder plays the main character as Susanna Kaysen, a young girl who was diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder in 1967 and was sent to a renowned New England psychiatric hospital, named Claymoore, where she spent the next two years in a ward for teenage girls.
There Susanna loses herself in a world of seductive and disturbed young women: among them Lisa, who is played by Angelina Jolie, who is a charming sociopath who stages a disastrous escape with Susanna, Daisy, an antisocial, pampered girl with an eating disorder, and Polly, a remarkably kind burn victim. Ultimately, assisted by the hospital`s head psychiatrist, Dr. Wick, and a ward nurse, Valerie.
Susanna, such as Dorothy in the OZ, resolves to leave this OZ world and reclaim her life.
I think that my favorite part is at the end of the film, when she leaves the psychiatric hospital Claymoore, and she gets into a taxi, and she is released back into society.
She acknowledges in voice-over that by the early 1970`s most of her friends in the ward has been released. Some of them, she saw, some of them…never again. But regardless, she will never forget any of them and she will always have a place in her heart for them.

I really like this movie, first of all, because it is based on Susanna Kaysen`s memoir.
And I like this kind of movie, real and with topics like psychology and madness. It is the type of movie that makes you think about life, the relationships… and the instability and intensity that there is on them.
I love the characters of this movie, especially Susanna, because I feel related to her, since we can drive ourselves crazy sometimes, but it is our choice to get over with it.
And, I also love Winona Ryder. I think that she is an amazing actress and her performance in this movie along with Angelina Jolie, it is perfect and full of emotions.
I don´t know that I would change something in the movie if I could… but I know that there are parts that actually didn't happened in Susanna`s life, like the escape with Lisa…so maybe, I would´t put that, on the movie, because I would like it to be real and honest with the Susanna´s memoir.
But, I understand that sometimes the directors fill in with more drama their movies to gets more  attention from the public, but that would be it.

A photograph I like

I don´t think that this is my favorite photograph, because I have many, but there it is a whole story behind this picture, and that it is what I like about it.

Even though this picture it is just a photograph of The Lorraine Motel, it has an important meaning to the history of the humanity, since it was in this motel where the Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination happened. 

This photograph was taken by Henry Groskinsky on April 4, 1968, the night that Martin Luther King had been shot.This Motel is located at Memphis, and now it`s the Nacional Civil Rights Museum. 

I like this picture, because it´s a great photograph, but more important, I like it, because it is a reminder of Dr. King, a symbolic leader of his race, but also a world figure, who fought for his civil rights.

This picture make me come back to that night, where the horror, the injustice and the hate was most important than the union of the human race. 

It makes me think about the actuality, the changes that has been made, but also about the same injustice that happened before and it`s happen now. It makes me think on how some people cannot understand that we are all the same, with the same rights, no matter what color is our skin, our where we come from.

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."

Martin Luther King, Jr.