© Zora Murff Today you will be writing about this image by artist Zora Murff, which is from his series titled Corrections. Your analysis must be 4 paragraphs, 5 sentences minimum per paragraph. Remember to post your analysis as a comment to the blog post that corresponds to your class. If you post your analysis to the wrong class's post, it will not be graded.
Below is a project statement written by Murff about his body of work, Corrections: From 2012 to 2015, I worked as a Tracker for Linn County Juvenile Detention and Diversion Services in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. As a Tracker, I provided services to youths who were convicted of crimes, adjudicated, and subsequently ordered to complete probation. Juveniles in my charge were asked to comply with services which may include: electronic monitoring, therapies, drug screening, and community service; it was my responsibility to have continual contact with them to ensure these expectations are met. Tracking and other similar community-based services are being increasingly used as an alternative to detention facilities. These services, which allow juveniles to stay in their homes, show a higher rate of success than strict incarceration. Although community-based services are built to foster a collaborative relationship between juveniles and service providers, attaining the actualization of teamwork becomes problematic when juveniles feel that they have done nothing wrong, are victims of circumstance, or do not fully understand why they have committed a crime. The system has been put in place to provide rehabilitation, but it is far from being a straightforward process. Many influences outside of the youths' control such as education, socioeconomic status, and race all play a role in whether or not a youth reoffends - all of these factors possessing the propensity to lead them to extended periods of incarceration in the juvenile system or to involvement with the criminal justice system as an adult. By reconsidering the role that I played in the lives of the kids I worked with, I began to acknowledge the burden that comes with tasking young men and women with continued complicity. My stance as a consequence kept our relationships in a state of flux ranging from stable to tenuous – a constant motion mirroring the discord that develops between the system's intentions and outcomes. Through employing ideas of anonymity, voyeurism, and introspection, Corrections is an examination of youth experience in the system, the role images play in defining someone who is deemed a criminal, and how the concepts of privacy and control may affect their future. Refer to your "How to See" handout for analyzing a photograph--
Hasan Ehsan
10/4/2018 08:44:31 am
This image depicts a young African-American male standing on a gravel track and presumably staring at the football end zone. It uses red to illustrate the track, green to depict nature, and black to identify the human aspect of the image. Natural lighting is being used, which allows for the contrast between the individual and his background. This young man’s face is hidden, and he’s wearing sandals with socks and flip flops. There’s also an ankle monitor to track the individual; all of these factors in the image culminate into an inferred background and life story for the individual. 10/4/2018 08:44:47 am
This image is of a young boy who looks like he is on a football field and or track. The boy is wearing an ankle monitor that he is supposed to be wearing because it looks like he could be in juvenile detention or on probation. The image shot by, Zora Murff, is definitely trying to get us to think more critically and deeply and it. He seems to be the only one there and is not playing any sports. Yet, looking at the field longingly.
Sofia Galindo
10/4/2018 08:47:01 am
This image is of a male teenager who was convicted of a crime. He is staring off at the football field and standing on the track surrounding the field. His face isn’t shown because the author wants to keep their privacy. The boy has a monitor on his ankle, allowing him to be able to stay at home instead of being locked up in a juvenile prison. He is wearing black clothes, which is contrasting the lighter background. The lighting makes the sky and photo look a little cloudy with the sun trying to break through.
Matthew Sutherland
10/4/2018 08:47:35 am
The image is of an African-American male with a tracking monitor on his ankle standing on a football and track field. The man appears to be a teenager. The teenager is looking at the football goal post. He is wearing a tank top, black shorts, white socks, and black flip flops. In the background of the image, there are houses behind trees. The image is using green and rust colors. The image was shot in bright sunlight. In this photograph, a teenager who had committed a crime is running on a track in a mostly likely a poor area, due to the low quality field.
Sergio
10/4/2018 08:47:41 am
This photograph by zora murff of a brown skinned man in black clothes, white socks and black sandals, resting while standing after running through a long red track around a big football field is well lighted while not using any colors that are neon or bright because it is not a very happy picture.
Farouk Ramzan
10/4/2018 08:54:17 am
There is a black boy around the age of 17 to 18 I would guess, standing in the edge of the football field on the track. I notice that he appears muscular and strong and he has a tracker clasped to his leg. The dirt red is a nice contrast to the black of the boy’s clothes. The bracelet he’s wearing has a similar green tone to the grass. The face of the boy is tilted to his left to cover his identity. It looks like he’s looking at the white football goal. The image is using natural light as it seems that it was probably a cloudy day. There is a blurred building in the background which is most likely a school complex.
Farouk Ramzan
10/4/2018 03:01:07 pm
There is a black boy around the age of 17 to 18 I would guess, standing in the edge of the football field on the track. I notice that he appears muscular and strong and he has a tracker clasped to his leg. The dirt red is a nice contrast to the black of the boy’s clothes. The bracelet he’s wearing has a similar green tone to the grass. The face of the boy is tilted to his left to cover his identity. It looks like he’s looking at the white football goal. The image is using natural light as it seems that it was probably a cloudy day. There is a blurred building in the background which is most likely a school complex.
mariah podwika
10/4/2018 08:54:27 am
The image is off a boy who is in the juvenile system who is standing on a track and looking away from the camera. It is using the dull red and green of the grass and track to contrast with the bold black that the subject is wearing. The lighting is very natural and it is a cloudy day so it is a bit darker than a normal sunny day would be. There is a boy standing in the center foreground of the image and he is standing on a track that is connected to a football field and there are trees and what looks like houses in the background. In the image the boy who is on the track is looking away from the camera and towards the goalpost and the trees in the back.
Clara Blume
10/4/2018 08:57:25 am
In this photo, there is a young man standing on a track surrounding a football field in the foreground. Behind the football field in the background is a line of trees and houses. The houses seem to be in poor condition. The football field looks unkempt with dead grass and no visible lines. The track also seems out of shape without the running lanes. The young man is wearing all black with white socks, black slides, and an ankle tracker . He is looking back over his left shoulder towards the football field. The lighting is natural and it looks to be sometime in the early afternoon.
eden vogelsang
10/4/2018 11:05:17 am
In this image there is a young man on a track, he's wearing a black t-shirt and shorts, sandals, white socks, and an ankle monitor. In the background, there is a goalpost. The photographer Zora Murff is using a lot of dark colors than lighter ones in the background to pop against the blacks. the image looks a little cloud, kind of like it's going to rain. There is a person in the photo. The boy is just standing on the track looking away from the photographer with his ankle monitor on.
Claire Rollwitz
10/4/2018 03:16:44 pm
When I first looked at the image, I thought of a man who longed to play football. With some more background information about the artist and his collection, I learned the real meaning behind this photo. The artist captures a teenage man with a tracker on his right ankle standing on a track to show us what the boy is going through in a juvenile facility. The colors in this photo are mostly dull, except for the boys black clothing that stands out against the background. The image has good, natural lighting.
EmmaKate
10/4/2018 05:09:44 pm
In the image by Zora Murff there is a guy in front of a football field. The guy is wearing black clothes and flip-flops with socks. There is an ankle monitor on his ankle. The colors that are being used are black, red and green. The lighting is natural light and bright light. The guy in the photo is standing on a track looking at the field behind him. 10/4/2018 08:23:45 pm
The image is of a light skinned African American male with a monitor on his right ankle standing on a track surrounding the football field. The person in this picture appears to be a teenager, and it seems that he lives in a poorer district because of the gravel track and the sandy torn up football field. The image uses a lot of darker variation of colors which draws out the teenager and the white objects in the picture, socks and the football goal post. The image looks as if it were taken on a cloudy day or a hazy morning making the picture darker. The is looking at the goal posts as if having a memory while he is walking around the track being monitored.
Troy Githinji
10/4/2018 09:14:44 pm
In this photo, we are introduced to the figure of an African-American man standing on what appears to be a track field with large trees in the background. The colors of this image really contrast, sending the eye directly to the man in the middle of the photograph. On his right leg, directly above his sock, we can see a tracking device, implying that he is in some kind of juvenile detention. The photograph is not very bright and the sky is cloudy and dull. We can see the man in the foreground looking outwards, towards the goal post, and beyond the goal post, we can see signs of buildings, probably used for housing.
teresa lei
10/4/2018 09:47:10 pm
An African American teenager is standing in the middle of the picture above the track, staring back at the football field. He wears gym sets, slippers, and there is a device connecting to his ankle. To correlate with the theme of Correction, the photo is depicted under a relatively cold tone. In order to achieve this goal, the image was shot under a cloudy day with natural light. The complementary colors are used. The image is considered to be a portrait, the main focus of the camera is the male that stands on the track. It can be suggested that he is thinking or recalling things in the past. Comments are closed.
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