New Trier on a Rainy Day

For an article on an outbreak of whooping cough at the Northfield campus of 

New Trier, I biked over there to take a picture that would capture the morose feeling 

that I attach to the school. Thematically the article called for a more daunting or dismal 

portrayal of the school, and coupled with my memory of freshman year of being

 constrained in a concrete prison I tried to utilize the rainy day, the desolateness, 

and the giant, enclosing, geometric concrete structures to compose a photograph that 

would work both as a scene of a whopping cough outbreak and as a nostalgic reminder 

of freshman year.

Since I initially had no idea what the photo was going to look like, I walked around the 

campus and found interesting angles that indicated movement but was bereft of human

 activity. This created a sort of zombie-like effect, which perfectly illustrates a landscape full 

of disease.

Northfield

Taken in October 2012