UOP Art Gallery

On Wednesday the 26th of January, our digital photography class visited the University of the Pacific (UOP) campus to view the work of the photographer Kirk Crippens. The title of his work was called Foreclosure, USA. His work was based on the foreclosures that occurred in the city of Stockton, CA. As I looked around his photos, I had a sensation that I was looking at photos that told similar stories of the photographs that were taken during "The Great Depression," in the late 1930's. It was a shocking, amazed, hard to believe feeling to actually see photographs that were similar to "The Great Depression," happen at a nearby location from where I reside. I always wondered how it might had felt to had been living through those hard economic times. It was a curiosity I always had each time that I saw portraits of people that had suffered from the 1930's economical depression. The irony of this is that I always wanted to know how it felt to live during those times when these 1930's photographs are really happening today, but I had not realized it until I saw the amazing work of Kirk Crippens.