Harry Yatkowitz

Harry Yatkowitz was born and raised in New York. He was always interested in photography and finally found his passion for it when he took his first photography class this year. As his passion grew for photography he was eager to learn more than what was being put in front of him. His photographs are inspired by street life and portraiture and how you can capture the natural things people do during the day that might be so simple and average, and make it interesting. His work is inspired by photographers like Helen Levitt, Sylvia Plachy, and Jamel Shabazz who courageously photographed the streets of New York City and created outstanding images of what might be average to other people. In his final project he was mostly intersted in human emotion and how people hide their feeling from the rest of the world and expressed that through his narrative in "Portraits without a face". This summer program was the first photography class he had taken outside of his high school and it created a more creative environment for his photography skills to grow and he is excited to learn more, shoot more, and create more.