Photography workshops click with inner-city teens
Former Los Angeles Times reporter Martha Groves spent a week behind the scenes of the Fredric Roberts Photography Workshops’ first U.S. workshop, held in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles, Day 6: The Music Story
Los Angeles, Day 6: The Music Story For our last day of photographing, the students went over to the music building on the Heart of Los Angeles campus. Our teams split into groups and photographed in different departments of...
Los Angeles, Day 8: Graduation
This morning was the culmination of the entire week’s work, with a ceremony and exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. As we set up the presentation of the student’s work at LACMA, the students began to...
Los Angeles, Day 7: Editing our work
Saturday began just as they have at our past workshops, with all of our instructors sequestered in a classroom at Heart of Los Angeles slaving over computers! As is our new tradition, we also had the students come in...
Los Angeles, Day 5: STEM class, Mother’s Teaching Kitchen, Lafayette Skate Park, LA Rakers
Yesterday, one of our groups photographed in a small and locally famous tamale kitchen. Today we had those tamales for lunch and they were the best we’ve ever had! (I have three more tamales stuffed in my camera bag...
Los Angeles, Day 4: Our First Assignments
The first half of today was pretty typical. We did our photo critique and had a lecture in the morning. But lunch today was pretty fantastic! We had a Salvadoran dish called pupusas from one of the many amazing...
Los Angeles, Day 3: Shooting in the Rain
El Niño is in full effect here, and we are working around unusually wet weather here in LA. Lucky for us, Lafayette Park is across the street. Today we did our usual running exercise where some poor student or...
Los Angeles, Day 2: Class Begins
Along with a documentary crew, we also have a writer (who previously wrote for a major newspaper) covering the workshop experience. About three-quarters of the way through the morning she pulled me aside and asked, “Isn’t this a lot...
Los Angeles, Day 1: Arrival and Preparation
Faculty member Wendy Walsh arrived this morning, coming in on a 5 a.m. flight from Peru. The team assembled as we launched another episode of the Fred Roberts Photography Workshops – this time in Los Angeles. Our inaugural workshop...