CapU in Photos: 2020
Published9 December, 2020
A challenging year in photos.
![willow](/media/capilanouca/about-capu/get-to-know-us/capsule-stories/images/students-walking-in-snow-2-1040x643.jpg )
When I took my first photojournalism class, our professor sent us out on weekly assignments. Each week, we would study examples of a photographic creative device — rule of thirds, juxtaposition, decisive moment, to name a few — and our job was to go out and create an image that demonstrated the device in question.
I still refer to that list of devices from time to time, but the one I rely on most as part of my day-to-day work at CapU is emotion. No matter what I’m photographing, some of my favourite images are made when I see and document people showing and sharing unfiltered expressions of how they are feeling.
COVID-19 changed our visual language, literally overnight. Every event I was scheduled to photograph vanished from my calendar. Any image showing groups of people together was deemed unusable. As people slowly and carefully returned to campus in September, I quickly realized the challenge of trying to make emotional photographs during a time defined by masks, physical distancing and remote learning.
While this collection of images, as a whole, may not be as vibrant as in previous years, I hope they show a glimpse of how we’ve found ways to march on despite the challenging year we’ve experienced together. I’ll never take photographing an event, with people laughing, high-fiving and hugging, for granted ever again.
![Woman smiling while climbing bouldering wall](/media/capilanouca/about-capu/get-to-know-us/capsule-stories/images/Ali-Funk-portrait-3.jpg)
![rail jam](/media/capilanouca/about-capu/get-to-know-us/capsule-stories/images/snowboarder-in-the-air-1-800x495.jpg )
![animation](/media/capilanouca/about-capu/get-to-know-us/capsule-stories/images/animation-student-1-800x495.jpg )
![drum](/media/capilanouca/about-capu/get-to-know-us/capsule-stories/images/drum-workshop-1-800x495.jpg )
![four kayakers in deep cove with mountains in the background](/media/capilanouca/about-capu/get-to-know-us/capsule-stories/images/kayaking-2.jpg)
![IDEA](/media/capilanouca/about-capu/get-to-know-us/capsule-stories/images/IDEA-students-1-800x495.jpg )
![nana](/media/capilanouca/about-capu/get-to-know-us/capsule-stories/images/nanaakosah-1-800x1293.jpg )
![amie](/media/capilanouca/about-capu/get-to-know-us/capsule-stories/images/amienguyen-1-800x1294.jpg )
![Rodrigo Quezada sitting with laptop, studying outside his house](/media/capilanouca/about-capu/get-to-know-us/capsule-stories/images/rodrigo-studying-outside-2.jpg)
![Neelamjit](/media/capilanouca/about-capu/get-to-know-us/capsule-stories/images/neelamjit-1-800x495.jpg )
![candace](/media/capilanouca/about-capu/get-to-know-us/capsule-stories/images/candace-1-800x495.jpg )
![students smiling and walking in graduation robes and caps](/media/capilanouca/about-capu/get-to-know-us/capsule-stories/images/convocation-procession-2.jpg)
![800](/media/capilanouca/about-capu/get-to-know-us/capsule-stories/images/graduation-kiss-1-800x495.jpg )
![chancellor](/media/capilanouca/about-capu/get-to-know-us/capsule-stories/images/chancellor-1-800x495.jpg )
![A silhouetted man walking out of the Birch building](/media/capilanouca/about-capu/get-to-know-us/capsule-stories/images/birch-2.jpg)
![long service](/media/capilanouca/about-capu/get-to-know-us/capsule-stories/images/longservice-1-800x495.jpg )
![A mom and daughter, wearing masks, carrying boxes](/media/capilanouca/about-capu/get-to-know-us/capsule-stories/images/residence-movein-2.jpg)
![Teams meeting](/media/capilanouca/about-capu/get-to-know-us/capsule-stories/images/teams-meeting-1-800x495.jpg )
![studying](/media/capilanouca/about-capu/get-to-know-us/capsule-stories/images/studying-with-mask-1-800x495.jpg )
![bio](/media/capilanouca/about-capu/get-to-know-us/capsule-stories/images/biology-1-800x495.jpg )
![A self-portrait of a student.](/media/capilanouca/about-capu/get-to-know-us/capsule-stories/images/nathalie-taylor-self-portrait-3.jpg)
![canoe](/media/capilanouca/about-capu/get-to-know-us/capsule-stories/images/skwchays-1-800x495.jpg )
![cozette](/media/capilanouca/about-capu/get-to-know-us/capsule-stories/images/cozette-macallum-1-800x495.jpg )
![Dini Stamatopulos throwing graduation cap in the air](/media/capilanouca/about-capu/get-to-know-us/capsule-stories/images/dini-3.jpg)