Several of my students are lucky enough to travel during the summer months and sometimes they surprise you with images that are a departure from their normal MO. For example, Bhoomika Nikam traveled to India the summer before her senior year and returned with a small series of photographs that was unlike anything she had photographed before. Yes she was in a fascinating foreign land, but her sensitivity to subject and her willingness to step outside her routine was evident to me. Here are two of my favorites.
"This photograph depicts two young girls, around the age of 7, standing outside their "public school" in India, dressed in their uniforms and ready to begin class. Capturing their genuine thirst for knowledge was an incredibly humbling and overwhelming experience that has stayed with me since the photograph was taken two years ago." - Bhoomika Nikam