![Freshman Milan Earl and sophomore Lucy Kaplan sit with their grandparents at Archer’s annual Grandparents and Special Friends Day Friday, March 15. The event took place over three 75-minute sessions. “[I hope my grandparents] gain an understanding about what I do, Kaplan said, because I know they ask a lot of questions and can sort of see what I do in school and what the experience is like to be here.](https://archeroracle.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/grandparents-day-option-2-1200x800.jpg)
Innocence and femininity through Senior Olivia Loaiza’s lens
Photo credit: Olivia Loaiza
Olivia Loaiza ’16, based her photography on Sofia Coppola’s adaption of the Virgin Suicides. She was inspired by Coppola’s use of soft tones and grainy textures.
Olivia Loaiza ’16 threw it back to the 1990s and used color film to emphasize the grain and rawness of innocence and femininity in her senior photography exhibition April 12 – 18.
Loaiza showcased her passion for film photography in the Upstairs Gallery, where she displayed photographs of her friends in gardens as a part of her Senior Photography Exhibit.
Loaiza fell in love with film photography after her first photography class at Archer in eighth grade.
Her exhibition was inspired by Sofia Coppola’s adaption of “The Virgin Suicides,” which she read in her Novels to Film class.
Loaiza used color film to emphasize the grain and rawness of her images.
“I tried to incorporate the soft colors and tones [Coppola] uses in her film,” Loaiza wrote in her artist statement.
“I was trying to capture the essence of youth, adolescence and femininity during these teenage years,” Loaiza said.
Shelby Mumford graduated in 2016. She began to write for the Oracle staff in 2015 and was a member of the swim team and the Speech and Debate team. Shelby...
