Suzanne Opton
Joe Seck 11/1/2022 Art 240 Suzanne Opton Suzanne Opton inspired me for this assignment because of her focus on the men and women and the results on their mental state after experiencing the horrors of war and how those can affect your psyche. What she did was take photos of soldiers that have spent time in war and each photo has the name of the amount of time they had spent deployed. She spoke about what she was trying to accomplish with these photos by stating “I hoped to photograph the invisible. I thought that by looking in the face of a young person who had witnessed something unforgettable we might imagine what he had seen or done, or not done.” She wanted to see how war would affect people and if you could see the result by just looking into their eyes. In each one of the phot...