Упр.22 Unit 2 2020 ГДЗ Enjoy English 11 класс
22 Read the text and answer the questions. 1 What does Helen do for a living? 2 Does she like her job?
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Приведем выдержку из задания из учебника Биболетова, Бабушис 11 класс, Дрофа:
22 Read the text and answer the questions.
1 What does Helen do for a living?
2 Does she like her job? Why?
3 Do you think she has made a success in it? Why?
Looking Through the Lens
Helen Taylor, a 35-year-old freelance photographer, is passionate about photography and modest about her achievements. Based in Liverpool, Helen travels all over the world to capture images for newspapers, magazines and advertising agencies. At home she works as a freelance photographer for a national newspaper.
When she was at university, a boyfriend gave her a camera and she slowly became hooked on taking pictures.
One day, Helen Taylor was talking with a friend about life after university. At that time she was about to complete a degree in Latin American studies. Suddenly, the idea of photojournalism came up.
Helen said it had never occurred to her before, but when she said it, she realised immediately that it was what she wanted to do.
Together with her friend, Helen set off for Latin America to become a journalist. They got into trouble and had to spend a night in prison in Rio de Janeiro. It was an unpleasant experience but in the end it provided a fast track into the world of journalism.
Taylor started travelling and documenting people’s lives in Colombia, Argentina and Brazil. After that she returned and settled down in Liverpool.
“When I was young, what attracted me to photography was travel and adventure; I was interested in revolutions in Central America. Nowadays things have changed. Today it’s all about getting a good photograph, about the language of photography and trying to get a message across,” she admits.
The key to her success was her determination and persistence as well as support from her husband, an Argentinean photographer.
Now she has been working as a professional photographer for 7 years. Before that she was studying and working as a waitress to support herself. She has given 10 years of her life to either learning how to be a photographer or being a photographer.
She sincerely believes dreams must be pursued with true commitment and energy, no matter if you make it a success or not.
“ The only thing someone can teach you is how to use a camera and the technical side of things but not how to do photography. It all comes from your
mind, it’s not something you can learn. Of course, you have to practise and practise learning from your experience and mistakes.”
Helen Taylor was one of 12 photographers from around the world to be selected by the World Press to attend the popular Photography Master class and she spent almost three months living with and documenting people’s lives on the Miskito coast, an isolated jungle region in northeast Nicaragua.
She is sure that forming relationships with subjects is very important in her job.
“If it is a celebrity — and you don’t have much time — all you do is chit-chat to try and make them feel comfortable. But if you are somewhere for weeks or days, then you just involve yourself with the people. If they go dancing, you go dancing, if they have a drink, you have a drink, you just do what they do.”
“My favourite part of the job is meeting people and then having the pleasure of being led into their lives and photographing it — that is a journey in itself.”