I.D.

Have you ever considered how hard it is to make a magazine? Sure, this one may be online- but have you ever imagined how hard it is to interview people with such different beliefs than yours, and then turn their opinions into a factual story? Have you ever thought about how hard it is to take so many photos, edit them, format them along with the page, put everything together, and turn all this into the attractive magazine you can end up holding in your hands? Magazines are a piece of art. The whole purpose of I.D. is to prove and show how students and teenagers can communicate their ideas on what is going on in the world and become more informed about their surroundings. I.D.'s other purpose is to do investigation on current events that have been impacting the way teenagers develop and discover their identity; this is why the magazine is called I.D., to promote teenagers to be able to identify themselves in a changing society. It's purpose is to let different voices be heard, and their stories be known, so that there is a growing acceptance of different cultures and ideas. At the same time, readers can distinguishing the importance of art and literature, even in magazines, because there are very visual elements that contain information- but also a perspective and a point of view from the individual that wrote the article and designed the magazine. I want adults and teenagers to realize the power that communicating opinions contains, and that those can be expressed through photography, creativity, research, art and writing; from all different cultural and political viewpoints.