Oxiea Villamonte
Nguyen Thanh Hue
Oxiea:
"Safety to me means having a roof over your head, a place where you can sleep at night in peace knowing that no one will come to harm you during your sleep.
What makes me feel safe is having a lock on my door. I remember that I once met someone who slept without locking his door peacefully and this I found brave. Although if someone wanted to break the door a lock wouldn't stop them but it gives me the idea of being safe.
What is dangerous in your opinion? This is a broad question to me the first thing that comes to mind is something threatening someone or something that wants to hurt me. This could be a person or a natural disaster or a disease.
Things that make me feel safe are my close friends and family knowing that they are near or now during the pandemic I often video call. When I am all alone, it is comforting to talk with someone.
Safety to me means being in a safe environment. For example in some places they don't advise women to go outside late in the night when it is dark out for they might get harassed. I don't think this is the solution, there shouldn't be a threatening environment for anyone man, woman, child. I think the solution to this problem is not so easy but perhaps we could have safe places where if you feel threatened you can run to. I think a community is very important as in a community people look out for each other.
When I was living and studying abroad in China I felt very safe. I didn't feel that I had to keep a close eye on my belongings or that I had to be afraid alone at night. I felt very safe and free.
I am not sure yet how I will approach this topic as there are many angles but I wanted to share my first thoughts with you. I look forward to hearing what safety means to you.
What does danger mean to you and what makes you feel safe?"
"Safety to me means having a roof over your head, a place where you can sleep at night in peace knowing that no one will come to harm you during your sleep.
What makes me feel safe is having a lock on my door. I remember that I once met someone who slept without locking his door peacefully and this I found brave. Although if someone wanted to break the door a lock wouldn't stop them but it gives me the idea of being safe.
What is dangerous in your opinion? This is a broad question to me the first thing that comes to mind is something threatening someone or something that wants to hurt me. This could be a person or a natural disaster or a disease.
Things that make me feel safe are my close friends and family knowing that they are near or now during the pandemic I often video call. When I am all alone, it is comforting to talk with someone.
Safety to me means being in a safe environment. For example in some places they don't advise women to go outside late in the night when it is dark out for they might get harassed. I don't think this is the solution, there shouldn't be a threatening environment for anyone man, woman, child. I think the solution to this problem is not so easy but perhaps we could have safe places where if you feel threatened you can run to. I think a community is very important as in a community people look out for each other.
When I was living and studying abroad in China I felt very safe. I didn't feel that I had to keep a close eye on my belongings or that I had to be afraid alone at night. I felt very safe and free.
I am not sure yet how I will approach this topic as there are many angles but I wanted to share my first thoughts with you. I look forward to hearing what safety means to you.
What does danger mean to you and what makes you feel safe?"
"Some information about the images that I made for this week's topic: SAFETY. Quoting my mother " I moved away from the USA because I did not want to go looking for your face on a milk carton".
In the early 1980's missing children had their photograph advertised on milk cartons which were spread around in the hope of finding the missing children. This continued until the late 1990's when other platforms for missing children took over. Still today when you walk into a supermarket in the USA you can find a wall full of images of missing children.
One of the reasons my mother chose to move to Europe was to give me a better and a safer live that is the meaning behind this image.
I wanted to share that with you."
In the early 1980's missing children had their photograph advertised on milk cartons which were spread around in the hope of finding the missing children. This continued until the late 1990's when other platforms for missing children took over. Still today when you walk into a supermarket in the USA you can find a wall full of images of missing children.
One of the reasons my mother chose to move to Europe was to give me a better and a safer live that is the meaning behind this image.
I wanted to share that with you."
Hue:
"How was your day? I hope you doing well.
When I put myself in the crowds, anxious feelings running through my body on a regular basis. I don't know them and they don't know me though, maybe just the name.
I would get this feeling like I'm floating outside of my body, looking down at myself - a pale dot in the crowds. And I hate what I see, how I'm acting, the way I sound. I have nothing in common with the people out there, and they have nothing in common with me. It's really awkward and overreacting I am. Sound silly, right?
But if I do it for work, it's totally fine, and enjoy interacting with others. As I said in the first mail, the camera gave me an excuse to step out of my comfort zone, experience the world and get to know myself better.
I'm a photojournalist or I want to be. I need to have communication skills but I don't know how to change. And I'm so scared that the feeling is never gonna go away.
I feel safe when I'm alone in my room, doing nothing and I also feel safe when I being around people I love.
I absolutely love being alone but not all the time. I really lack social activities :)) You know, after all, even though I'm a typical introvert but I feel the need to connect with other people, to you, and I think all of the people in the world feel like so. It's just that people have different capacities for it.
For this assignment, I will do multiple exposure, mean layers two different exposures on a single image. The first one is my self-portrait, the other one is the water.
Just because I obsessed with water and I love it. I always feel peace when I sit by any lakes as I look at the sky and doing nothing.
I really look forward to hearing your ideas to shoot this topic."
"How was your day? I hope you doing well.
When I put myself in the crowds, anxious feelings running through my body on a regular basis. I don't know them and they don't know me though, maybe just the name.
I would get this feeling like I'm floating outside of my body, looking down at myself - a pale dot in the crowds. And I hate what I see, how I'm acting, the way I sound. I have nothing in common with the people out there, and they have nothing in common with me. It's really awkward and overreacting I am. Sound silly, right?
But if I do it for work, it's totally fine, and enjoy interacting with others. As I said in the first mail, the camera gave me an excuse to step out of my comfort zone, experience the world and get to know myself better.
I'm a photojournalist or I want to be. I need to have communication skills but I don't know how to change. And I'm so scared that the feeling is never gonna go away.
I feel safe when I'm alone in my room, doing nothing and I also feel safe when I being around people I love.
I absolutely love being alone but not all the time. I really lack social activities :)) You know, after all, even though I'm a typical introvert but I feel the need to connect with other people, to you, and I think all of the people in the world feel like so. It's just that people have different capacities for it.
For this assignment, I will do multiple exposure, mean layers two different exposures on a single image. The first one is my self-portrait, the other one is the water.
Just because I obsessed with water and I love it. I always feel peace when I sit by any lakes as I look at the sky and doing nothing.
I really look forward to hearing your ideas to shoot this topic."