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Marvin Fox. Born January 8 1961, he currently lives in Corvallis Oregon and works at Samaritan Health Services/ Clinics, Some of which go by names of Family Medicine, for 9 years he's been in a Janitorial industry known as Superior Janitorial. His occupation is an Operating Manager which means he works, trains new coming people, and checks the buildings. This goes from 5 to 7 days a week, but sometimes it can be as much as 10. Here's Marvin talking to one of his coworkers while waiting in the Elevator. He's planning on taking the trash out, and needs to transport the bin by using the elevators that go upstairs. Monday May 29 2022 9:34 PM, Corvallis Oregon. Marvin stands in front of one of the many buildings he works at. These medical buildings act as a chain, and connect to each other, especially after hours. Marvin also works at clinics in Lebanon, Albany, Sweet Home, and Philomath. There's also Dentist offices that he'll clean. Here's Marvin and another co wor...

  “Mohammed was no longer a Talib to me. We were simply two people in our twenties, getting to know each other”. This is from Chapter 2; I like this conversation in the book because there’s a lot of opposition, profiling, of common misconceptions, of people from the middle east. Some of these misconceptions could argue that there’s no real humanity to people in the middle east, or that they caused disasters to happen in the U.S, some of which can fall into racism, and fear.      This is one example of the humanity Mohammed has, others individuals too. His perception of what he’s been told about the U.S and how relationships are constructed can show that he’s human too, and not what some consider the individuals in the middle east to be.      Lynsey Addario’s work seems to be taken as if it looks while she’s walking with the people that are in these events, or circumstances. It feels like there wasn’t any planning in these photos compared to other phot...

Andreas Gursky was born in Leipzig Germany on January 15 1955. Andreas Gursky's father and grandfather were both successful commercial photographers. While Andreas was younger he didn't want to have much to do with photography, but changed his mind when he was in high school. Andreas Gursky’s education has been at a number of places. Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, a fine arts academy has been home to other renowned people other than Andreas Gursky such as Werner Hilsing, Joseph Beuys, and Gerhard Richter. Other places Andreas has attended is a research facility that’s named University of Duisburg-Essen, in essen Germany from 1977 through 80, Andreas Gusrky went to Folkwang University of Arts, he studied photojournalism there and went to Dusseldorf Germany’s Art Academy in 1980 through 87. In 2010 through 18 Andreas Gursky ended up becoming a professor at the same place for their Liberal Arts program. Andreas Gursky’s process in making photos is by shooting chromogenic prints wit...