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 Tyler Crain
A freshman at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Tyler Crain made the portrait while in Tanzania on a medical mission with his sister, a pre-med student. “As soon as I saw this man’s seasoned face, bloodshot eyes, and weathered body I became anxious for a portrait of him,” says Crain, who was shooting with a manual-focus Canon AE-1. “Judging by the grain I think the film was ISO 1600, and it suits the old man and his ragged clothes, along with the poverty of life in the Usumbara Mountains.” A photojournalism major, Crain wants to combine photography with other passions, travel included. “I’ve thought about combining it with my love for music,” he says, “maybe by shooting album art or photos for bands.”
—Jack Crager
 Alyssa Dawson
A photo student and part-time English teacher at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Alyssa Dawson befriended a local Albanian-American family and ended up shooting pictures of them during a wedding. “Their practice of arranged marriage is often damning for the women,” she says. “They become isolated because of the language barrier and dependent on husbands who may or may not care about them. I tried to show these fam- ilial disparities through visual layering.” An avid traveler, Dawson would like to teach abroad. “I love taking pictures, but I haven’t hung my hat on photography yet—except as a way to connect with the world around me.”
—Jack Crager
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