Student Photo Contest 2020
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Laura Coppard
Where We Belong
Laura Coppard
There are many challenges that I face as an international student, but the issue I am faced with consistently is a sense of community and belonging. I often describe it as a feeling of limbo; floating in between places and cultures, but never completely being seen as a member of one or the other. To show this idea visually, I decided to create a series of images surrounding my new neighborhood in Philadelphia. My images focus on the exterior doors and windows of
the buildings around me, highlighting the idea that people are inside, living their lives, while I am an outsider. My goal was to create a sense of social isolation in the viewer, with my subject matter giving clues into what is behind the wall.
Emma Hamilton
Jacob Moscovitch
Jacob Moscovitch
Robert Spencer
Precious Metals
Robert Spencer
This projects is a creative visual commentary on the relationship between of materialism and luxury. While many materialistic behaviors are based in sentiment and exist only for our personal satisfaction, luxury items are treated differently. People wear and display luxury items to bee seen by others in an effort to establish a higher status or gain approval or attention. Even if the item's monetary or value is not immediately clear, we wear these items like we wear our skin. To us, these items adorn our character and black out everything else about us we may not want to pay attention to. Often times, we may even be blinded by the luxuries of others.
The metallic paint symbolizes luxurious materialism and is the only thing in color because of how attention seeking we wish for luxury items to be.
Jacob Moscovitch
Luca Hellmer
Life is better on a lake
Luca Hellmer
I took the photo at a lake in Germany, Leipzig.I chose the lake because the water has beautiful colors and it's really clear. To get closer to the boat and to photograph from an impressing angle, I used my drone.It worked well to get an interesting atmosphere through the colors of the lake and through the clouds.
Jacob Moscovitch
Santa Monica
Jacob Moscovitch
A gust of wind displaced the blanket, windswept by its weightless nature. The baby was motionless and the parents speechless in their communication. The baby made eye contact as I drifted away from our conversation, magnetized by the metal clinging (and hopefully not swinging) by my side.
This picture was made while beginning a story about my first summer in Missouri, contrasted by a single week at home with my loved ones and the sea.
Daija Guy
Jacob Moscovitch
Hold her by the light
Jacob Moscovitch
Taking a moment from cleaning the kitchen and making evening plans, Kelin Cobbins calms down his daughter Ka'Myarh on the afternoon of Aug. 12, 2019. "She loves to dance to the music," he said. "Any music will do."
While working the night shift at a local nursing home and taking care of his children who often come to Columbia to visit, Cobbins has a full plate. Although he was born in Columbia and raised by various family members around town, all Cobbins can think of is the west coast and the LA Music Industry.
Jacob Moscovitch
The sun must set on California
Jacob Moscovitch
After one year away, I spent a week back home in Southern California. My home, almost in touch by time, moved on without me. As I made this pictures of my favorite place, the beach, I was overcome by loss. California is still my birthplace, but my sense of home will never be the same. I know longer long for you California, yet you often long for me. Live on with ease, for the sun must set on California.
Jacob Moscovitch
Wilson Avenue
Jacob Moscovitch
The magic and wonder of a college party revealed itself to me. Wilson Avenue, located in East Campus in Columbia, Missouri, became home to many lovers, students and party goers, facing the cold, celebrating a winning football game, embracing each other and inhaling the fun-filled frenzy visible, audible and felt in the air. Ours are hearts those that fondly love thee, here’s a health to thee.
Jacob Moscovitch
All the Best Summers Roll Past on Wheels
Jacob Moscovitch
“Skating by yourself is still great, but skating with someone else is just magic.” When Noah Doolady and Kev Presley met, it was as if they had known each other for years. Noah had always dreamed of having a skating partner, and had even bought 5 extra pairs of skates hoping to find someone to skate with. Now, he just calls up Kev. “When we skate, we dance. Our bodies are together and our movements become complementary.”
Jacob Moscovitch
Nicholas Li
Gold
Nicholas Li
This series exhibits the magnificent sunsets of the western US, from Santa Fe, New Mexico to the coasts of La Jolla, California. No two sunsets are alike - each has their own personality, whether it be color, how the light cuts through the clouds, or the effect the sun has on the surrounding landscape.
Jacob Moscovitch
Jacob Moscovitch
Jacob Moscovitch
What does it mean to be a man
Jacob Moscovitch
“Being a man is having the courage to live out your dreams,” Matt Wald said as he plopped casually onto his unmade bed. “Also, not being put down by what other people have to say,” he continued. Matt Wald is a High School student and a resident of Thousand Oaks, California. “A man carries out his most radical ideas.”
Jacob Moscovitch
Marching band
Jacob Moscovitch
A band member gazes into the camera during rehearsal at Muriel Battle High School in Columbia, MO. Football is more than simply the action on the field. While everyone else stares at the big green box, eyes fixed under bright lights, I look the other way; at the relationships, reactions, moments and memories unfolding in the sidelines.
Jacob Moscovitch
Why college?
Jacob Moscovitch
Alex Whitehouse, a current senior at Westlake High School in Southern California, like many other young adults in the US education system, is in the midst of a great decision - college. Pictured here in his bedroom, Whitehouse says he believes staying in the area will benefit his acting career. “Why leave?” he said. Already involved within the film industry, Whitehouse says he must stay local for college to continue his work with previous agencies and studios. Whitehouse’s final decision will not only sway the ease of continuing his current relationships, but, like any student alike, will effect his career indefinitely. Will he make the correct decision, or will he stray from his current plan?
Jacob Moscovitch
Sisters non Cis-sters
Jacob Moscovitch
Last fall, Stephens College announced a new policy on admitting transgender and nonbinary students.
“For so long, the school board didn’t even take the issue of gender seriously at all,” said Emile Eller, a fashion design freshman at Stephens College who identifies as nonbinary.
Jacob Moscovitch
"I wouldn't eat"
Jacob Moscovitch
In high school, Michael Fisbeck weighed 300 pounds. Fisbeck, pictured here on Dec. 8, 2018, decided to stop eating. “I would chew gum to convince myself that I was eating.” In college, Fisbeck was diagnosed with anorexia. “Now, I need to help others like me," he said.
Yichen Hu
This and Another (Gun)
Yichen Hu
Gun-related incidents have been an issue in the United States for years. Have we reached a point that no one could keep up with the number of incidents around us anymore, that we could say it's just "another gun"? I travelled to Terre Haute, Lafayette and Bloomington, Indiana and photographed locations where those incidents happened in 2017 and 2018. With this project, I try to visualize the desensitizing process I went through since I arrived in the U.S. in 2017. As the number of incidents increases the image will show less detail and appear whiter.
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