{"id":6285,"date":"2020-03-02T13:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/?p=6285"},"modified":"2020-03-21T13:21:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T17:21:30","slug":"veteran-photographer-speaks-at-dsc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/veteran-photographer-speaks-at-dsc\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran Photographer speaks at DSC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Raphael Seabra – In Motion Photo Editor\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Air Force veteran and Nikon Ambassador, Stacy Pearson talks to an audience of veterans and civilians in the lecture hall of the Gale Lemerand Student Center at Daytona State College about her Veterans Portrait Project. (Raphael Seabra\/In Motion)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    \n On Thursday, Feb. 6, United States Air Force veteran and Nikon \nAmbassador, Stacy Pearsall spoke at an Art Speaks Lecture at the L. Gale\n Lemerand Student Center on the main campus of Daytona State College. \nListening to Pearsall speak was an incredible experience. As a war \nphotographer she was injured several times in the middle of combat, and \nnow she uses her past as inspiration for other photographers. Her \nlecture spoke to her passion for telling the stories of veterans and \ngiving civilians a glimpse into war, especially for a woman in a \nmasculine environment. hearing her speak openly was a revelation about \ngender bias within a military community.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \n Pearsall\u2019s story is revealing, showing what happens during a war from a\n female perspective. The official government  press releases show war \nfrom a male perspective, but rarely show an accurate image of what war \nis like for a woman experiencing so much turmoil. Her lecture was \nincredibly honest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \n Seeing it through her eyes made it that much more tragic. Many in the \naudience had never had the opportunity to speak candidly with a veteran \nbefore about their experiences. The audience was asking itself \u2018Is it in\n good manners to ask someone about what they endured during combat?\u2019 \nwhen they have heard that soldiers experience heavy bouts with PTSD. It \nis assumed that veterans would avoid speaking about their time-fighting.\n Pearsall\u2019s bravery needs to be noted as a photographer and, as a woman,\n putting herself into a combat situation that could not have been easy \nfor her.  She went beyond brave and took an incredible series of \nphotos.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \n One must know Pearsall\u2019s backstory to get the most out of her Veterans \nPortrait Project. Her black and white portraits of U.S. veterans are fun\n and playful. Not every photo features a man or woman in uniform. Some \nare as simple as a man and his dog. There is variation in her \ncomposition but she captures personality within each of her \nphotographs.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \n She spoke on how to connect to a model and working with body language \nin a morning workshop attended by DSC photography students. Her photo \nseries presents people as humans first and then as veterans. Her \nsubjects trusted her and formed a connection between the sense of \npersonality in each frame, telling a story that deserves to be told. She\n paid respect to her subject. Her photos are an introduction to each \nveteran and give audiences the chance to get to know the figure better.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pearsall inspired students at the workshop to be able to build bonds like those that she was able to photograph. Making them laugh, smile, grin, and more adds so much to a photo.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learn more about the Veterans Portrait Project at http:\/\/www.veteransportraitproject.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Raphael Seabra – In Motion Photo Editor\u00a0      On Thursday, Feb. 6, United States Air Force veteran and Nikon Ambassador, Stacy Pearsall spoke at an Art Speaks Lecture at the L. Gale Lemerand Student Center on the main campus of Daytona State College. Listening to Pearsall speak was an incredible Continue reading Veteran Photographer speaks at DSC<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6287,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6285\/revisions\/6287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}