young lords

Student Emad Hanna

Digital Media-1 Class

Fall 2016

Final Project

Young Lords

   

     The Young Lords, later Young Lords Organization and, in New York (notably Spanish Harlem), Young Lords Party, was a Puerto Rican nationalist group in several United States Cities, notably New York City and Chicago. This picture, before doing any Photoshop editing, was taken in 1969 in New York. It was for a group of revolutionists in New York city belonging to the Young Lords. They were demonstrating against the government which was not collecting the garbage in a timely manner and left the trash decaying in the streets. As a result of these demonstrations, the government intervened and collected the garbage.

      Through the use of Photoshop editing, I imagined that the event that is taking place in the picture was not a real revolution, but a scene from a movie. I also imagined that this scene was filmed in New York City and that this picture we are talking about here was a shot from that scene. Therefore, through Photoshop editing, I added to the picture the photo of a real director who, like the picture, belonged to the fifties era. Therefore, both the original picture and the added photo are in black and white. Adding the photo of the real director makes the picture appear as if it has been taken while this director was shooting a scene from a fake revolution. Finally, adding the photo of the director like that makes the fake revolution in the picture seem as not representing a one that really happened, but as an event that was included in a book authored by the director and which the director was turning to a movie.