Pedro Hespanha - Task #2: Amy Stein

It seems my submission for this segment of the assignment takes greatly after Amy Stein's series Stranded, which I consider to contain her most beautiful photographs and to be her most interesting series. I've always found photographs which depict solemn people, stranded or stuck in some way to be interesting. Although not all the subjects present in Stranded appear to be alone or even truly stranded, several of them do, tending to broken down cars or communing with bored family-members as they await rescue. I find her series contains two different kinds of images, close-ups that offer a stark glimpse into the lives of evident strangers and wide shots which serve more the purpose of establish the subject's surroundings and, by doing so, laying out for the viewer to see, the size of the subject in comparison to the all-encompassing location. I found the latter type to be more intriguing as I believe our relationship with the world around us is always a great subject for photographers. During our last snowstorm, quite possibly the most serious snowstorm we've had for years, I fought the urge to stay warm and ventured onto a nearby field with my girlfriend and my sister, not knowing exactly what I was going to shoot. As we made our way through the fields and I looked up at my sister walking away from me, I saw what you see now in front of me and knew that it reminded me of something. Stranded.