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Shooting “Barefoot in the Park’’
more than
Melvin
G. Jack-
son prob
ably bar
gained for.
The entire
production
was photo-
a half hour
period in Piedmont Park and Atlanta
Botanical Gardens on one Sunday. A
Senior Mass Communications major
at Clark Atlanta University, Jackson's
works have been featured in the New
York Daily News, NABJ Monitor,
and the Atlanta
Journal Consti
tution. Some of
his subjects have included Jesse Jack-
son, Muhammad Ali, and Minister
Louis Farrakhan to name a few.
His current project, tentatively titled
“Capturing Grace,” is a pictorial es
say on “Black Women who've tri
umphed against the odds—unsung he
roes on a microscopic level” and is
slated for a May exhibition.
Chicago native and Clark Atlanta
University Senior Journalism major,
Ytasha L. Womack explores the
hypnotic and sometimes maniacal
power music holds over listeners
which started from her reminiscence
of a love jones she once had in “Mu
sic is My Sanctuary” (page 6). As the
(paste 7) turned out to be
graphed over a twelve and
Womack is also an accomplished
dancer, producer, and writer. She is
presently completing a documentary
for Georgia Public Television on the
underground scene of open mic po
etry, art and hip-hop culture. Her
written contributions have also ap
peared in Atlanta Magazine, YSB,
Upscale and Emerge.
Photos by Melvin G. Jackson
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