Avant-garde Artist Jean Cocteau wrote in 1918 that “We are not dreamers, but realistic explorers.” Four years ago, Kristyn Ulanday walked onto BU’s campus a dreamer, expecting a challenging curriculum and bountiful opportunities.

She says she used to dream of exotic lands, Pulitzer Prize-winning stories and larger-than-life personalities. But once she began working on projects and learning from professors, fellow students and other photographers, her dreams changed.

Photojournalism became her way to see the world—a way to find honesty and truth in life. “Journalism is the collective story about the resilience of humanity,” Ulanday says. “It is my job to leave it for others to see.”

Driven by a quote from Albert Einstein (“I wish to do things that are great and wonderful, but I must start by doing the little things like they were great and wonderful”), Max Esposito has experimented with journalism in many forms.

He discovered his passion for photography on the streets of Boston, with a simple point-and-shoot camera, taking pictures of empty paper cups, rusted fences, ants marching on a Goldfish cracker, broken glass and countless other obscure, everyday things.

“This passion has been nurtured by the good people in the Photojournalism department,” Esposito says, “the students, professors, and staff who have pushed me and my peers to work toward creating things that are great and wonderful.”