DANA SCRUGGS Dana Scruggs is a photographer and director who is known for focusing her work on movement, abstraction, and evoking emotions based on the bodily form of her subjects. She became a photographer while she was going through a time of severe depression. In her career, she made photography a collaborative process between herself and the subject. For example, in her photograph of Mecca Mozelle, the photographer gives the subject the opportunity to show off their emotions by using different facial expressions and poses. The subject within the picture wears different colored makeup to different backgrounds to help create the mood of the photo. All the specific elements of the visual outcomes from the photos became statements within her work. One statement within her work appears on the cover of an issue of The Washington Post magazine where there is a picture of activist Stacey Abrams covering her eye with an emblem of the US flag. This shows that Abrams is con...