On Monday, the video lecture series, “Experiencing Images: How the Visual Shapes Our World,” kicked off with the lecture, “On the Matter of Subject: What We Photograph Matters,” presented by artist and adjunct professor at Columbia College Chicago Cecil McDonald Jr.   McDonald is an artist whose photographs explore how masculinity, family relationships and black culture intersect, as well as how they are explored intellectually and artistically.   “I am an artist of color [and] identify as a Black man,” McDonald said. “So, by extension, my work is often burdened with political representation, either a representation that I give it, but oftentimes more likely is representation that other people give it.”  “On the Matter of Subject:…