1. Paul Kwiatkowski uses strong color to enhance his photographs. He also stands close to all of his models, probably not more than five feet away for his farthest photo. All of the photos are center weighed and pictures of a single person by themselves. It seems as though all of his photographs are real life, rather than staged.
2. All of Paul's photos represent the real hardships in life that teenagers face today. In the first photo a young man is holding up guns and looks proud doing it. Today, many teenagers get ahold of guns and think it is cool to take pictures with them because it will scare their enemies and make them not want to mess with them. The next photo is of a young girl doing drugs in the comfort of her own home. Drugs are a huge problem in todays society because more than half of the people today use some type of drug on a daily basis. The last photo shows a man with a horrible bad bruise on his right eye representing fighting and violence.
3. I think that Paul is trying to show the viewers that guns, drugs, and violence are what bring this society down. All of the people photographed were young adults, which shows that our generation is going down hill. All of these actions being photographed are negative ones. Paul really opens up my eyes to see the hard core reality of life. I feel as if his motive for taking these real life photographs is to help america understand whats really going on and to start going in the right direction.
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