Journies

My Scholarship entry - A 'place' I have visited

USA | Thursday, June 27, 2013 | 4 photos

My name is Katie England and I'm a junior art major at Freed-Hardeman University. I have always loved photography and it has been a major influence in my life. I use photos not just to take in memories but to tell a story to those who wish to "read" the photos. I have traveled abroad with school and wish to continue that in my future career as a photographer. Visiting other people and places and showing their story is what photography is all about. Taking the viewer into a different world than their own and seeing it through the eyes of someone else is priceless. I want to open the eyes of others to new worlds, new experiences, and new people through photography.
This series is about the lives I visited when I went to my grandparent's house for a day. Each picture is a representation of them and their story. From growing up not knowing each other to writing letters in college and then getting married with only the letters as their dates. They had been married for 59 years and defied the odds and everyone who said it wouldn't work out. They raised a family together and loved each other till the day my grandfather died. Grandma has alzheimer's disease now and photos give her a chance to look back and visit the life she once lived.