I am Angelina Flores, and I am 17 years old. I think of myself as a creative person. My goal in life is to change people's perspective about our culture through my photography, continue being a hard working student, and to achieve success. A couple of things that I have accomplished that I'm proud of is, my work being displayed twice at an art gallery, I've had the opportunity to shoot for a known latina rapper, and also had my work published in the LA Times newspaper. This made me feel very proud to know that people enjoy looking at my work. One thing that made me want to participate this semester was getting the chance to learn more about photography and to receive feedback on my work. Something I hope to learn this semester is how to take better portraits of people and how to master lighting. When it comes to my photography, I consider myself a hobbyist; meaning some pictures are worthy of being printed and hung, but not all. I hope to become a better photographer so that one day my work will be able to change the way people view our community as we are portrayed to be ghetto, cholos, and troublemakers; when we are way more than that.
