RAHI Summary

“Humans of RAHI” is a spin off of the blog “Humans of New York,” where portraits and interviews are collected by people of the streets of New York City. Humans of New York’s overall purpose is to celebrate positivity, diversity, and the prevails of adversity. Similar to the infamous blog, students here at RAHI were assigned a partner to interview, and my partner was Drew Pekar. In order to create and put together our narratives, we interviewed and photographed one another until we believed we had enough material to put them together to fully express the thoughts of both the subject and creator. Through this narrative, we were able to demonstrate our subjects through our own eyes during the process and accommodate theme with one of their relating …show more content…
We asked each other many questions about anything and everything, whether it be related to school, animals, or family. I narrowed down what I was going to put into my narrative by considering which answers I thought would be intriguing as well as surprising to the viewers of the narrative. The questions that sparked answers that stuck out to me included “What do you hope to achieve?” “If you could have one superpower, what would it be?” “What animal best describes you?” and “If you could have one item symbolize you, what would it be?” All of these questions could have been interpreted in many ways and answered in different tones. When I asked what he wanted to achieve, he answered with “I hope to achieve a master’s degree in math education and hopefully become a principal one day. I want to become a math teacher because I always loved math and my dad was a math teacher, and I want to become a principal because my dad was one. I like taking on leadership roles and challenges.” I didn’t specify in asking what area he wanted to achieve, so he could’ve answered it with his long term goal, his short term goal, how many marshmallows he wants to fit in his mouth during a game of chubby bunny, or anything else that could possibly be thought of. Instead, he told his goals when it comes to …show more content…
The pictures we took were candid as well as posed, where you could see Drew as if he was speaking to me during the interview and showing some of his personality that was demonstrated in the quote that went along with it. Although he might not be doing exactly what he talked about in the photographs, I believe the two do have some relation with each other. For example, in the photo below, Drew is blowing a dandelion, which is something people do when making a wish. I paired this with the quote about him wanting to become a math teacher and principal because it deals with him wishing to achieving his goal. Doing this might have made a connection between the reader and subject, but it’s humorous for the audience because of the irony in a somewhat bigger guy blowing out a dainty dandelion with the intention of being