For this week’s installment of ‘The Weekly Frame’, the Daily Trojan’s photo section did something different. We all met up for our first field meeting and were broken into three teams, each team armed with a prompt, a single word: a color. Over the next hour, the photographers spread out around campus, searching for how to best harness that color in an image. By our next meeting, we’d shot and edited 56 photos. From those, our favorites are what you see here.
Even prior to this field meeting, we’d frequently discussed color, and its theory and storytelling capacity, and we all had been fascinated by it — even me who is protanopia colorblind. And it’s just not photographers: People from all backgrounds — Vincent van Gogh in the blues of southern France’s starry nights, Georges Méliès in the pops of yellow that he painted into each one of his film’s frames individually, Wes Anderson in his distinct pastel-primary-color aesthetic — find something to love about this seemingly simple aspect of our vision. Color brings splashes of life and joy into the world. And we hope this week’s photos bring something like that to you, the reader, as well.
Henry Kofman
Deputy Photo Editor, News
