Sadie Collins works on putting her fingers in the right place during the Oak Park Fiddle Camp at the 19th Century Charitable Association on July 3. The camp hosted 14 kids, who learned violin, guitar and contra dancing.
Natalie Rivera of Oak Park, left, kisses the hand of her daughter, Katrina Wright, after both crossed the finish line during the 5K Frank Lloyd Wright race, Oct. 21.
Rebekah Levin (right), co-president of OPALGA, has been with Sophie Kaluziak since 1989.
Nicholas Sciander, 5, stands still while a chinchilla gets its footing on his head during a Columbus Day presentation at the Oak Park Public Library, Oct. 8.
Sam Gurrola played Mary in “Journey to Bethlehem” at First Baptist Church of Oak Park, Dec 8-9.
Ben Newberry uses all his might to pull himself up on a pommel horse during his class at the Oak Park Gymnastics Center, August 24.
Keeping her fingers crossed, Julia Heisler, 4, shyly talks to Santa Claus on Marion Street.
Kelsey O’Shea, 9, soars on a tree swing in front of her home on South Grove Avenue on a beautiful fall Friday.
Henry Boyce at the Farrelly/Muriello Apartments in Oak Park on Sept. 5, where he has lived for eight years.
Samuel Campbell plays “Take Me to the King” during a 30th anniversary celebration of the Dorolyn Academy of Music in Oak Park, Oct. 20. Students, past and present, and faculty performed during the event. The school, founded by Dorothy Bounds, has taught music to thousands of students.
Text by Ken Trainor
The camera loves the human face — especially when the camera is held by one talented staff photographer, David Pierini.
The face is nature’s most expressionistic medium — a purveyor of emotional intelligence. It conveys determination and desire (1), reverence and mystery (2), delight and wonder (3), joy and concentration (4), the thrill of sharing a considerable accomplishment (5), tenderness and affection (6), understanding and excitement (7), unfettered freedom (8), self-esteem (9), and amused amiability (10).
We are fascinated by the infinite registry of our faces, from deepest emotion to thoughtful reverie. We are a walking portrait gallery.
From the moment we wake up until we close our eyes at night, our lives are filled with faces. We can’t get enough of them. We find there both infinite variety and comforting familiarity.
A skilled photographer has a feel for the way light makes love to our features. All it takes is a good eye — and a great sense of timing — to capture them. Over the course of a year’s worth of published papers, we are rich in wrinkles and smothered in smiles. Eloquence, as you can see, is in the eyes of the beholdee.
Artists have beheld the fabulous expressionism of the face and chased its elusive qualities for millennia. Faces forever fascinate.
It is our longest-running romance.
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