Graduation morning, our proud writers and photographers found the classroom filled with tidy rows of chairs waiting to seat friends and family members. As head master Mike Spencer told the crowd, a graduation is not an end, but rather,...
After we finished our last critique this morning, students reluctantly packed up the cameras that had seemed so mysterious at the start of the workshop. Reflecting on their artistic journey this week inspired them to write short speeches for...
Today’s blog post was written by our student journalists on deadline. Today we split into groups and went to two destinations. One group went to the beach at the Marginal, one of the most upmarket places in Mozambique. The...
When a big bus drops off 20 students and teachers at the busy town market, people notice. Matola’s market is not on Mozambique’s tourist path, so our cameras were met with some suspicion at first. This was our second...
Today was the big reveal! Our writing team presented a mature and powerful presentation that had the teachers wondering if we were really working with 9th graders. Their research was thorough, and it excited and bonded the writers and...
We dodged puddles on our way to the classroom this morning, evidence of a tremendous thunderstorm last night. Our students were anxiously waiting to critique their best work from yesterday, their first day handling an adjustable camera and problem...
Watch out for falling mangos! As if it wasn’t enough for our students to remember all the technical information Sarah and Wendy taught them today, they had to be aware of the random mangos that would drop from the...
Can you moonwalk? No? Do you fish? Do you like math? Do you play boardgames? Do you write poetry? Our Mozambican students learned a little bit about each other today before the real work started by participating in...
After a long week of successfully learning the fundamentals of manual photography, the students and their families converged at the Aga Khan Museum for graduation day. The Museum’s state of the art auditorium was the perfect venue for the...
Day 6 of our workshop started with a critique of the previous day’s shoot. This critique was particularly interesting and exciting since every group had gone to a different location. The students had made great progress with their technical...