Joining SEC in the category of new activities is “Changing the world through photography”. With art being a requirement in IB CAS, I was initially worried about the activity that I would take to fulfil my art requirement. I was never good at drawing and I hated dancing because I lacked confidence. This heavily narrowed my options into either pottery, creative writing or photography. Pottery was completely eliminated from the picture since I had no prior experience or relationship with the activity and had zero interest. I decided against creative writing since I felt that writing lacked subtlety when compared to visual media such as photographs. Photography was always an interesting activity and this was likely because my father was also very interested and invested in photography. Seeing his framed photos adorning our apartment walls made me realise the impact of photographs. My interest in History and Global politics made me realise how much influence and change a photograph can bring, it can spark a revolution, erase ignorance and incite massive change.

My strengths are that have a basic knowledge of how to use a camera and compose a picture such as using an earthworm shot. The areas that I can improve in include finding subjects to photograph, using more advanced settings to fine-tune the image, focusing and zooming properly and editing photos. This will require me to acquire several news skills such as photoshop, applying filters, adjusting saturation and learning the finer details of using a camera. My plan and outcome for this activity will be to produce an image that evokes feelings of pride in our school.