By Liam Moore and Noah Kantner 

During a block period on Wednesday morning in November, we made our way to the Hershey Center, where we sat in with and followed Intermediate Photography students Joshua Parker (‘25) and Paulo Fulco (‘27).

Their class started with them grabbing two cameras from the box in the middle of the room and gathering around Upper School photography teacher Taylor Dabney to get their assignments for the day. The focus of this class was to portray people in action and a scavenger hunt for the seven deadly sins, in which the students would take a picture representing each of the sins. 

Photo credit: Liam Moore.

After they received their assignment, we followed Parker and Fulco around campus as they took pictures of a student eating food in the Academic Commons, representing the sin of gluttony. Parker said the purpose of their class is to find “sparks that intrigue people to look at our images.” 

In order to find more portraits of people on campus, Parker and Fulco visited Upper School science department chair Stew Williamson’s physics class to take more pictures of students participating in a lab. They also stopped outside of Upper School economics teacher Rob Wedge’s AP Economics class to take pictures of him teaching.

Parker and Fulco often try shooting from many different angles and moving around the room to get the best picture possible. Parker described Intermediate Photography as a “step up” from Fundamentals of Photography and said, “while there are higher expectations for your photos, you also have more freedom to think outside of the box and show more creativity through your photos.”

After they took their photos, we walked with Parker and Fulco back to their class, where they logged into the computers, uploaded their photos, and edited them. Fulco showed us different aspects of the photo that can be edited, like clarity, texture, vibrance of color, and light settings. 

At the end of our visit, Parker told us that his favorite aspect of photography is the freedom of going around and taking pictures and said, “you are not really restricted to where you go” to take the best imaginable photos.