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Biography
Jennifer is a native of Guadalajara, Mexico, who currently resides in Chicago, IL, and learned to use photoshop in one semester at City Colleges of Chicago. She plans to graduate in the summer year 2021 with a degree in science and transfer to The University of Hawaii at Manoa to pursue her nursing career. After taking a photography class in 2015 and 2021, she rediscovered her love for camera art while adventuring through the U.S. Her day-to-day work focuses on Men's health and beauty, while her camera art reflects her love of visual arts and incorporates forms of surrealism.
Artist Statement
My photographs depict myself and the explorations of the term "Alien" to investigate its true meaning of status and allegiance in the U.S because it is often used to describe undocumented immigrants. I was born in Mexico and came to this country as an infant. I am a "dreamer." I have struggled with the language and ideas around citizenship and nationality, which is a massive part of my life. In this piece, I'm exploring the word alien because “illegal alien” is often used to describe immigrants in the U.S. I'm trying to use humor to reclaim that word for people like myself.
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"Alien" will represent a vision of myself and my status in the U.S. I have tried to use surrealism to create credible imagery and situations to transform them into waking dreams. I'm traveling through the southwest part of the U.S to capture photos of the Rio Grande and the hot deserts of New Mexico and Arizona. The dangerous Rio Grande is where most migrants try to cross with young children, like me, every day. I have used my Canon Rebel T6 in landscape mode using auto ISO to capture the stretch of the Rio Grande and used it in a gif format. Through photoshop, I created collages, edited and fine-tuned a variety of my photos.
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How can we incorporate a green screen gif into a sequenced photo in photoshop?
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QCQ #5
QCQ #5
Jennifer Huerta
The works of Frida Kahlo, Tina Modotti, and Laura Aguilar all relate in one way or another to issues of feminism and marginalized individuals.  In using images to portray individuals and situations that were not mainstream in their day, their work is also political as it aims to bring unheard voices into a broader conversation.  In the film, the narrator says “the energy that each [Kahlo and Modotti] found to combat both personal calamity and political oppression survives in their art.”  I believe the same sentence could apply to the work of Laura Aguilar as well.  
The way each of these artists expressed their experiences and views differed.  In the article by Mulvey and Wollen, it says, “Frida Kahlo’s work concentrates primarily on the personal, the world of the interior, while Modotti’s looks outward to the exterior world.”  In her article, Deanna Ledezma describes Aguilar’s Plush Pony series in the following way: “Aguilar and her participants unsettle the reputation of photographic studio portraiture as an instrument for the white, middle-class aspirations of the nuclear family, reclaiming it as a medium for self-representation and the portrait studio itself as a space for making queer Latinx family formations visible.”
The following two photographs by Laura Aguilar show Ledezma’s point.  In the image below, we see two individuals in a close and tender embrace in the center of the image.  Both are smiling and looking at the camera.  The image does not tell us the exact relationship between the two individuals, but the style is reminiscent of studio or amateur portraiture. One could imagine a similar image being produced at a photo booth at a bar or nightclub.  In this respect, the photo is quite ordinary.  But what makes it exceptional is that it portrays two woman who appear to have non-heterosexual identities.  At the time the picture was taken, representing such people in images was seen as a taboo in much of mainstream society.  In this way, giving the excluded the dignity of the ordinary, Aguilar’s art is political and progressive.  
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The second image has similar elements to the one above.  In this case, four individuals are looking at the camera in everyday clothing and casual clothes.  In this sense, it is also an ordinary portrait of a group of individuals who may be friends or acquaintances.  However, the individuals display characteristics that at the time the photo was taken were different from mainstream images of portraiture that would have been seen in mass media.  The individuals on the left and right both have the visual appearance of non-heterosexual individuals to which the term “butch” might have applied at the time.  The individual second from the left is visibly displaying a tattoo, which at this time in history was also likely outside of the mainstream.  Today, such an image seems normal, at least in my way of seeing the world, but at the time (and perhaps even amongst some people today), the image was radical as it gave these individuals on the margins of society the same treatment in a portrait as those with a more traditional appearance received.
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My comment is I think the works of Kahlo, Modotti, and Aguilar were revolutionary for their day, but significant progress has been made since these images were made in advancing the frontiers of feminism and LGBTQ rights and acceptance.  So, their work today is historically dated, as it reminds us of past struggles (which are continuing today, but in different forms).
My question is what are the communities today that are marginalized and not yet accepted in mainstream images?  What can we do to allow these individuals and groups to be accepted and seen?
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The ocean calls and I must go..
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An ocean turtle swimming in sequence through Magic Island, Hawaii.
Shot on GoPro 7, framed each second, and used photoshop to put it together.
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