A picture is worth a thousand words, and in the halls where the S-Stop exhibit resides, beautiful stories are told with the eyes. Donna Okamura started the S-Stop project when she “realized that we had a lot of students who loved to take pictures, but didn’t have the opportunity to take a photography class at Sage.”

Okamura “had a great response the first two years” but this year she extended the project to the beginning of this year and “didn’t have as many submissions.” However she plans to continue it into the future by also communicating with parents and friends who life to take pictures.

“As long as my frames don’t keep breaking, I will run the exhibit.”

Okamura also plans to “limit submissions to five per person so that they better self-edit their work.” This will make the quality of photos in the exhibit better and allow students to put more of themselves into each photo.  

Expression in a different form of art is what S-Stop is all about, Okamura said. “The goal is to showcase their best photographs.” But she knows S-Stop really serves to “give a creative outlet to those who don’t have an art class.”