In our last class discussion of Camera Lucida Professor Bergman expatiated upon her favorite segment of the book: "...the punctum is: he is going to die. I read at the same time: This will be and this has been; I observe with horror an anterior future of which death is the stake. By giving me the absolute past of the pose (aorist), the photograph tells me death in the future. What pricks me is the discovery of this equivalence.

On Thursday night, I ventured across Manhattan to the Macaulay honors College to my first Meet the Artist event. I didn't really know what to expect at first, I was little informed about what exactly we would be experiencing there that night.

 The Meet the Artist event that I went to for class was a opportunity to meet an internationally known photographer named Thomas Neff. Mr. Neff turned out to not be just a photographer but also a writer. His recent project that he has been working on and traveling for is a tribute to the Hurricane Katrina victims. He specifically was interested in the stories of the people who did not evacuate their houses and remained behind in the flooded city. He wrote a book using the pictures that he showed us and compiling them together with the stories of the people in them. Mr.