The Importance of Documentaries

Documentaries are amazing. Documentaries are life captured on film. The y are recorded life. People. Places. Events. Not recreated, but exactly the way they happened. They have the ability to just grab a moment from humanity and save it for all the future generations. The other day I was scrolling through a photography page on instagram and they had suggested to their followers that we should look into an account named "humans of ny." So since I obviously had no homework or any thing else to do... I decided to look at the page. Its incredible. The owner is basically a photographic documentarian. Brandon Stanton lives in New York City and he goes around asking random people to tell him their story and then he takes photos of them and posts them on instagram and its really cool. So heres one of those stories.

“I’ve been in America since January. But it won’t feel like home until I can get my mom here. For me, home is my mom. It was just the two of us in Panama. We did everything together. The day that I left was a terrible day. We slept together in the same bed that night. We cried in the house, cried in the car, and cried at the airport. I stood at the entrance of airport security for an hour, because we kept waving at each other through the window. My goal is to bring her here. I found a job on the Monster website. I knock on doors for Verizon. I’m supposed to knock on 120 doors a day. It has really been helping me with my English. If I make five sales in a week, I will have my own team. Then if my team does well, then I can be a manager with my own office. If I have my own office, then maybe I can bring my mom to America.”