Journalism's Future ... Now

The Mānoa Mirror
Journalism's Future ... Now

The Mānoa Mirror
Journalism's Future ... Now

The Mānoa Mirror
In this small vertical portrait, I am shown from my shoulders up to roughly the middle of my forehead. I am a 52-year-old American man, white in the abstract but with ancestral origins in the United Kingdom and Norway. Indicating those roots visually, I have blue eyes, a pinkish-tan skin with a red undertone, and dark brown hair. My hair is short on the sides but kept long on the top, showing some waviness to it. I do not have any facial hair beyond my eyebrows. Contextually, I am 6 feet tall and weigh about 210 pounds, but there is nothing in this image to use to gauge my body’s size or shape. The collar of my light-blue and patterned Aloha shirt shows just above my dark-blue suit jacket. On the UH campus, Aloha shirts are common, and almost no one wears a tie. So I’m dressed for that work environment. I am looking directly into the camera and expressing a subtle smile, with my lips slightly upturned at the corners. I am hoping to convey warmth and friendliness while still maintaining an authentic facial expression.

Brett Oppegaard, Adviser

Brett Oppegaard, Ph.D., is the Journalism Program Director at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. He’s also a photography student in the Art program, so his images of campus life also might appear here in his student role.

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