Post 1/ News Article/ Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect, 2025

Beshoy Erian

Studio Research 2

Professor Jung

11 September 2025

My BFA is based on the motion and emotion of a subject in a photo. I mainly focused on sports for a while but I am slowly branching out to new things including my idea of studio photography yet still including aspects of motion. Using stroboscopic Photography as means to still show what I love doing which is capturing the peak motion of movement but also add in light art. I have been thinking about an idea which I had already started on, using stroboscopic techniques while talking and advocating for work safety. For ex. The Triangle Fire, many of the people who died died because they were trapped from lack of safety escape measures, to add on were locked in so they couldn't get out. My Idea was to use light art and in a way paint the image of what these poor women may have felt being trapped in by fires and the horror they must've felt/went through.

To this day we deal with neglect of work safety and as I was researching, I found an article titled, “Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect, 2025” report from AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations), Despite how far we came, workers in the United States still face serious risks at work. The report believes that approximately 140,000 workers lost their lives to work related illnesses and injuries in 2023, or about 385 people every day.

This means a lot to me because some companies and CEO’s still care only about the money and not the workers who make them the money. They still neglect work safety when they are fully aware from past experiences and mistakes of others, yet they choose to ignore it. My idea ties in these motion and emotion techniques to advocate for work safety and how important it is to us.

https://aflcio.org/reports/dotj-2025