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Here it is, the promised update.

My two classes went extremely smooth -regarding the time of preparation and the fact that it has been 3 years since I have been teaching. Though being a leader in scouts turns out to be an advantage I guess.-

Rather than teaching them photography as it happended to me, I wanted to do things differently.
The fact that they are children of 12 means that a different approach can be used, they are still eager in opening their eyes to new things.

Since the class subject is FOOD, I had to do something with food.
The idea of food in general makes us think of very obvious things, like bananas, meat, etc.
So upon my question of bringing pictures of food, I got those very obvious images. Exactly what I wanted.
Because in order to build up a new image we should go to the bottom.
From that point we can start up the idea that food can be so much more than only food. Food can be a culture, the people around you in the table, food can be exotic, an other culture, it can be a holiday with delicious special things.

For sure they got that idea, after me showing pictures of my last holiday, christmas. They wanted to know my family, and which ugly food is lying on the plate. Or which delicious drinks we're having.

After that I tried to teach them something on framing, by showing how important a viewer is on a camera. Because every camera is nothing more than an empty box with a lense. We put a film inside, and the light burns onto the pelicule, making us a negative. But what is more important is WHAT we choose to be on that negative.

So we made a frame with our fingers, looking at he world through our little viewer. Making choices in what to pictures, or better what not to picture.
All these little kids looking at each other in a different way. Normal, or lying on the floor, or standing on a chair and looking down, from close and from far, looking at what interests them.

So they went out of the class, some of them still looking to the world.
Hopefully in a different way.

Posted on January 27, 2004
in Projects - SnowBlog.net

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