Kolby's Blog

     It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War is a spectacular book by photojournalist Lynsey Addario. I would describe this book as a page-turner. It’s a cliche term that appears as if I am exaggerating the quality of the storytelling; but it really was a great book that had me wanting to read the next chapter, paragraph, and sentence.       One story that I stayed up late to read is about Addario’s trip with her friend and fellow photographer, Elizabeth Rubin, to the Korengal Valley in eastern Afghanistan where the battle was taking place. Rubin was three months pregnant and going into an insanely dangerous warzone. The story was incredibly compelling, interesting, intense, and entertaining. Lynsey’s telling of the story perfectly captures her emotions and throws them onto the reader. The Korengal Valley experienced 70 percent of the bombs dropped in Afghanistan. Rubin was three months pregnant and had to hide that fact. Addario had to l...

     Martin Parr, born in Epsom, England in 1952, is a photojournalist known for his lighthearted, sometimes satirical, photos. Martin's grandfather, George Parr, a layman photographer, motivated Martin to become a photographer after noticing that he was interested in photography as well. Parr attended Manchester Polytechnic from 1970 to 1973, where he studied photography. After graduating, he worked at Manchester Council for three months before beginning his first exhibition, Home Sweet Home.    This photo is from his photobook The Last Resort , a collection of photographs from 1983-1985, and his first work in color. After seeing the impact that was made by photographers using color in the U.S. Martin decided that he would start shooting in color, as well. Martin is known for the loud colors in his photos.      A few of his works are displayed in T he Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the Irish Museu...

A sign welcoming visitors to Lebanon near the corner of Main St. and Wheeler St. on a cloudy morning, Wednesday, November 10. Lebanon, incorporated in 1878, sits near the northeast corner of Linn County. Brenda Bateman, a prep cook for Hangry Solution, a food truck in the parking lot of Gametime Sportsbar & Grill on South Santiam Highway in Lebanon, prepares chicken tortilla soup on Thursday morning, November 11. Her favorite aspect of her job is being able to meet new people. She has been with the company since April 2021. Jordan White enjoys his day off from school on Thursday, November 11, by going on a walk through Lebanon on Division Way. White, an 18 year-old in his senior year at Sweet Home High School, is from Salem but moved to Lebanon where he attended his final year of middle school and spent his first three years of high school.  

              Fall is in full swing which means that rainy days are here, people are enjoying pumpkin spice lattes, and leaves shift into varying hues of red, orange, and yellow. Though, the colors of the leaves might be beautiful, unfortunately, most of them sink to the earth and somebody has to clean them up. Cody Taylor, age 24, rakes piles of leaves in the LBCC courtyard, late Friday morning,  November  5. This is his second day as a groundskeeper for Linn-Benton.  Cody is one of three groundskeepers on the Albany campus. In his free time, Cody enjoys hiking, fishing, and going on walks with his 5-year old son. He loves hiking with his girlfriend in Grants Pass, near Sisters.                                                                ...