Jantzen Loza | The Storyteller
I fell in love with the camera during a black and white photography class in college. A year after graduating for Biola University in La Mirada, California, I moved my life to Chicago, Illinois, now pursuing an M.A. in Urban Studies at Moody Theological Seminary. My lovely wife, Jessica and I live in the Logan Square neighborhood, learning how to love our neighbors and each other well.
Photography, for me, has become my way of storytelling: uncovering the inherent dignity found in all things while examining life's beauty, curiosity and struggle. It would be a pleasure to have you visit this photo journal and come alongside me in this journey.
I fell in love with the camera during a black and white photography class in college. A year after graduating for Biola University in La Mirada, California, I moved my life to Chicago, Illinois, now pursuing an M.A. in Urban Studies at Moody Theological Seminary. My lovely wife, Jessica and I live in the Logan Square neighborhood, learning how to love our neighbors and each other well.
Photography, for me, has become my way of storytelling: uncovering the inherent dignity found in all things while examining life's beauty, curiosity and struggle. It would be a pleasure to have you visit this photo journal and come alongside me in this journey.
Larks & Vultures | The Name
The lark is known for the beauty of its song while in flight. In Breton’s realist painting, “The Song of the Lark,” there is an ethereal moment in which a woman pauses as if to listen to a lark singing, receiving her simple reward for the day’s labor. The colors evoke a sense of intimacy with our work often lost in our modern mechanisms of mundane labor. Similarly, we too briefly experience the ultimate reality of Heaven breaking into our lives, unveiling beauty, profound worth, and wholeness.
Then there is the vulture, a scavenger bird which often feeds on animals dead and decaying. The late Kevin Carter received the highest achievement as a documentary photographer with a photograph of a Sudanese child inevitably facing death as a vulture looms in the background. The composition of the photograph eerily places us, the viewer, in this field as eyewitnesses of a cruel and violent act against humanity. The morbidity of this scene is often reflective of our own depravity apart from our Creator, guilty of omission and ignorance. We are reminded that we live in a fallen world and we are broken beings.
The lark is known for the beauty of its song while in flight. In Breton’s realist painting, “The Song of the Lark,” there is an ethereal moment in which a woman pauses as if to listen to a lark singing, receiving her simple reward for the day’s labor. The colors evoke a sense of intimacy with our work often lost in our modern mechanisms of mundane labor. Similarly, we too briefly experience the ultimate reality of Heaven breaking into our lives, unveiling beauty, profound worth, and wholeness.
Then there is the vulture, a scavenger bird which often feeds on animals dead and decaying. The late Kevin Carter received the highest achievement as a documentary photographer with a photograph of a Sudanese child inevitably facing death as a vulture looms in the background. The composition of the photograph eerily places us, the viewer, in this field as eyewitnesses of a cruel and violent act against humanity. The morbidity of this scene is often reflective of our own depravity apart from our Creator, guilty of omission and ignorance. We are reminded that we live in a fallen world and we are broken beings.
