Something Like Art ;).
I Will See. Self-Portrait. Photograph & Digital Drawing.
These sections (May Day, Art, People, Nature, Animals, and City Sketches) have a number of images that I made in the first few years after getting my first digital SLR. I tried grouping them into something more or less coherent. I'm not certain if it really worked.
They still hold many important memories for me...
International Worker’s Day (May Day) is celebrated in honor of working people around the world. It traces its origins to 1889 demonstrations in Chicago, where a number of workers were killed by police fire.
On May 1, 2006 the May Day was also designated as A Day Without Immigrants. In Chicago alone, about half a million people marched in opposition to House Immigration Bill HR4437. These images are a glimpse of this historic event.
The image symbolizes how the immigrants who crossed the border illegally have no legal identity, no face in the society. There were way too many of them out on May 5th, 2006 in Grand Park, Chicago to be ignored - between five and seven hundred thousand (500,000-700,000) people marched in downtown Chicago.
Proposition HR4437 was never passed.
This is the image that got me into photography. I took it sometime during winter of 2001-2002 with my first camera. It was HP brand (non DSLR) that my brother Vova got for me while redeeming points he got from the store he worked at for going to HP training. I’m thankful to him for doing that.
Lake Michigan, lightnings, deserts, trees, occatios, and flowers.
