Let's paint some light on this situation

PAINTING WITH LIGHT is a photographic technique in which exposures are made usually at night or in a darkened room by moving a hand-held light source or by moving the camera. In many cases the light source itself does not have to appear in the image. Light painting photography can be traced back to the year 1914 when "Frank Gilbreth, along with his wife Lillian Moller Gilbreth, used small lights and the open shutter of a camera to track the motion of manufacturing and clerical workers. The Gilbreth’s did not create the photographs as an artistic endeavor; they instead were studying what they called “work simplification”." 

The "painting with light" aspect of studio lighting was completely different from anything I've ever done before. It was an amazing feeling to feel like a painter in a photograph... manipulating the images in the photo and adjusting viewers feelings with just a flick of the wrist and a small light source. I used a Canon Rebl T2i with an 18-55mm lens to take this photos; I used an aperture of f22 and a shutter speed of 12s. I was inspired to take these photographs after hearing the morning annoucements and seeing "hunger horror" posters around school. Since halloween is coming up... I thought about how silly it was for us to be "wishing" we were other creatures or people by dressing up in a costume. I thought this was silly because after seeing words like "hunger horrors" around school... it made me feel blessed for the things that I (and everyone around me) have. I thought of all the things we take for granted... things we don't don't feel blessed for unless we experience a loss of it or have it shoved in our faces. "Hunger horrors" made me think of human necessities that a lot of people in the world don't have such as HEAT. The idea of heat inspired me to take a photo of a boy being warmed by a fire, and a boy sleeping with a blanket on top of him. Then I thought deeper... and "freedom of speech"(boy with hand over his mouth and potential sound coming out)

and "knowledge of the difference between good and evil" (boy with an angel and devil on his shoulders) came to mind.

These are aspects of everyday life that we take for

 granted but might not even exist in some parts of the world. The reason why I chose to paint with light to take photos of this train of thought... was to simply shed some light on the situation...or rather "paint" some light on the situation.