Christine Chang Photography

Here’s a picture of Angela in her room.  

I enjoy hanging around people younger than I.  Younger people, like those in my youth group at church, still have the world before them and it’s nice to be with kids who have alot of questions and are still a bit unsure about what is going to unfold before them.  I can relate in this aspect, because there are still questions that I ask every day, and there are still answers that I haven’t found.  

One of the big blessings in my life are my youth group kids.  I had some trouble relating to them when they came into youth group in the seventh grade: they had attention spans of bats and no one seemed to be listening more than a minute at a time (well those things don’t change sometimes so maybe I’ve adjusted).  But now they have grown up way too fast and many of them are not just the kids I see every weekend but instead, they are now my friends; people with whom I can completely be myself and not hold anything back.  I connect on a deeper level with them and now many of them are leaving for college.

A month ago I was challenged in a class to do a series, and I wanted to do an ugly sweater series.  Go to the thrift stores and come up with the ugliest sweaters that hit the light of day and do a fun fashion shoot.  So that idea got killed when my professor told me it’s supposed to be in black and white.

Then I thought about kids in their rooms.  I thought about how kids order their room the way they want to and how sometimes their personality and likes and dislikes surface in their room.  In any case, Angela’s room was one of my favorite assignments to do because I really enjoyed talking to her during the shoot.  I hadn’t seen her in a while, and seeing her room really brought me back to my room, and how sometimes my mom would try to clean up my room and I would be so frustrated because then I couldn’t find anything.  Yes, I suppose that sometimes there is disorder in order also.

Here’s the first in the series.  I’ll try to post some more pics as they get done.