36th Annual Student Research Conference
No Longer The Passive Listener
Rianna Carrabus Rice
Prof. Priya S. Kambli, Faculty Mentor
My mother tells stories and I listen. This is the foundation of our relationship. I cherish these stories more than my own memories. They are well polished like stones now upon all the retellings. I am the only child, the only receiver of stories. For a while I understood only the remembering, though now I understand the telling. I am now a photographer. A documentarian. I choose what is remembered and how it is remembered, no longer the passive listener. I hold a great power in my hands when I take a photograph. I choose the light, the location, the frame, the subject, the moment.
I have explored questions like these through photography at Truman, and now all these questions culminate in my final capstone project. In this project I explore how my role has changed from listener to storyteller, and how photography facilitates and hinders this role.
Keywords: Photography, Studio Art, Memory, Storytelling, Remembering, Capstone Project
Topic(s):Art
Studio Art
Presentation Type: Oral Presentation
Session: 302-2
Location: SUB Georgian Room A
Time: 1:30