JPNA Photoessay Artist Statement

JPNA Artist statement

I went to the JP area and used a Vivitar mini digital camera purchased at Walgreens pharmacy. The camera worked well enough for its purpose although I would have preferred something with a little better resolution. I used Photoshop to fix some of the problems with the images I took but Photoshop can only do so much. Overall I think the pictures turned out well compositionally but the pictures were not as good as I wanted for quality. I used Microsoft PowerPoint to make the photo essay. That was very easy because I have used it a lot over the years.
I learned a lot about the camera as an instrument. I have always been interested in photography and the idea of capturing a moment of time in an image. This made the photo essay very fun and interesting for me. I experimented with the new camera I bought and got some interesting images out of it. The buildings in the area were interesting to photograph. Some were run down old and abandoned other building like a school that I saw that was pretty new and well kept. I also got to use Photoshop to fix several of my images, which is something I like to do.
I enjoyed my trip to the Johnsonville Park it was interesting to see the place that I had heard so much about from others. Although there weren’t many people walking around the neighborhood I got a good view of the area and what it looks like. I was surprised to see that there was no grocery store in the area.

photos of Johnsons Park Nieghborhood

Brown Street Academy

School bus


Some of the houses in the JP area are run down and abandoned.


The community is working to make their neighborhood a better place to live.


In the JP area there are different forms of housing. The neighborhood mainly consists of homes, new and old. there are also a few apartment buildings and rentable properties.


Alice's Garden offers the community a place to come together. residents can purchase plots, or in some cases get them for free. they are aloud to plant anything in these plots and are given training and advice in vegetable and fruit gardening.

blog #5

For my final project I plan on doing a history of the Lindsey heights neighborhood and the JPNA’s involvement in this area. I may do interviews with residents and would like to try to interview some people that are involved in the JPNA. Another thing that I would like to include in my final project is a picture comparison. I plan on looking through archives of photos of the area and then going to the places that were photographed and take pictures of those places now to compare the two time periods.