The Borowick Adventures

IM A FUCKIN VERGIN BUT KNOW ONE BELIEVES ME

DC High Schools Like Prisons

Project Proposal

    “School design, particularly public school design, is often lumped in with the design of other institutional structures like jails, civic centers and hospitals, to detrimental effect. My high school, for example, had the dubious distinction of having been designed by the architect responsible for San Quentin. (The convicts got the better building.) Schools fulfill a practical function, to be sure, but shouldn’t they be designed to inspire?”(Arieff, 2008, NYT).

This goes for overstate in the US, especially in the District of Columbia. I propose to do a documentary project that is bad on capturing this feeling that schools give off, this prison-like design. Shooting between 15 to 20 junior and senior high schools within the District to give a basis for these design properties. My research with be based on architecture design and the acting idea of an “educational safe haven” that schools are supposed to be.

Book Review: Evidence

Evidence

Covering the breakup of Yugoslavia and the reconstruction of the new land over the course of a war that claimed he innocence of so many, Gary Knight represents this finding in his book Evidence, as shown through his pictures and the writings of Anthony Loyd. The book itself is a testament to those lost as well as those who fought to stay alive through one of the harshest genocides this side of the century. It’s a documentary work that could only be done with the permissions of the people being photographed. To earn that respect and allowance into their lives was a triumph in itself. A timeline through the passages of the people stuck in the breaking cities and crumbling government above them. Sharing their stories with the world as they were happening. The Bosnian war and genocide spanned across many nations capturing ethnic cleansing and rebooting it back into the culture of today’s times. Ideas that we say over and over throughout history as situations that will never happen again, and yet, as history tends to repeat itself, these events continue over and over again. The work is based on the actions of writing in the very beginning. “The prosecutor of the international criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, pursuant to her authority under Article 18 of the statute of the tribunal, charges: Slobodan Milosevic with crimes against humanity and violations of the laws or customs of war.” (Loyd, 2002). The rules of war are of course heightened when a situation involves mass killings based on ethnicity, which is at this point considered genocide as noted by the United Nations. The creator and man behind the entire war and break up of Yugoslavia was run by Milosevic, leader of the Republic of Serbia as President. His war crimes are shown clearly through a variety of pictures and stories spanning across eastern Europe and the Balkans in Evidence (2002). The nature of the book is not to be taken lightly, it takes a hardened soul to search in the darkness for the light and that exactly what Anthony Loyd and Gary Knight found with their experiences in and throughout the Balkans. All being shown and heard and shared as it should, rather needs to be.