The Journal

Issue date: 10/4/07 Section: Lifestyle

Media Credit: Jamie Ford Theresa Marshall, a Webster University graduate from 1991, exhibits photos of her journey from St. Louis to the Grand Canyon. Marshall decided to go on the trip for her 40th birthday and decided to raise funds for the Susan G. Komen foundation for breast cancer.

Shades of blue, purple, red and orange exude from the sky. Mounted against a black background, the photograph of the Grand Canyon comes alive.

This photograph was at the opening reception for Theresa Marshall's exhibit, "Get Out and Live: A Journey to Awareness," which was held Sept. 28 at the May Gallery. The exhibit featured photographs Marshall took while on a road trip from St. Louis to Arizona.

"What I want people to get from (the exhibition) is do what you want to do; whatever it is, don't wait," said Marshall, an alumna of WU who graduated from the School of Communications in December 1991.

She also said she wants people to just have fun with the photos.

On her road trip, Marshall took photographs of people, places and landscapes. Photos of bright yellow daisies, dark trees and gas stations line the walls of the May Gallery. However, there is something different about this exhibition.

"I usually don't do a lot of landscapes," she said. "I also don't usually use a lot of color."

While the photos featured brightly colored images, all of the portraits were done in black and white. Marshall talked to the people she photographed and took their statements. Accompanying some of the pictures, audio is available to hear what the person in the photograph said to Marshall. The responses are in regard to what the person is doing to get out and live. Visitors can listen to the audio via CD players mounted on the walls beneath the photographs.

"I was amused by the CD players," said Kit Jenkins, a professor of communications. "I thought it added another great dimension."

Jenkins said she waited all day at WU for the reception.

Jackie Platero, a Navajo jewelry maker, commented on her profession in the audio component accompanying her picture.

"I enjoy making jewelry and traveling with my jewelry,"

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