“Watch me whip, watch me nae nae.” We heard the lyrics of this popular hip hop song as we arrived at the O’Connor Early Learning and Child Care Center for today’s photo assignment. Here, local group VIBE Arts runs one of...
Today was our second day of story assignments. It was our first time going into a location completely unfamiliar with the assignment in every way, with the expectation that after just two hours of photography, we will have captured...
Today was a dramatic shift in subject matter for our students. After two days of practice photographing buildings, trees, our friends and instructors, we set off into the Aga Khan Museum to capture its daily activities. This meant we’d be approaching...
This morning, we did our first critique of the students’ photos. Usually, we project the images on the wall. Not this time! Our classroom is equipped with two huge flat screen televisions. It’s so nice to be able to see the images in such an...
Today, we finally met our students. Of our 20 students, 14 are Afghan refugees. The kids are a fantastic group of students with incredible stories and diverse family narratives. Our first couple of days of each workshop are similar: we hand out...
After spending three hours in customs and immigration, Fred arrived from Los Angeles. Wendy drove from Rochester, New York, and Sarah flew in from Santa Fe, New Mexico. Mike landed and went straight to bed after a long...
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...
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...
Well it’s the end of the week, another workshop basically in the bag, and today we sat down to do the final edit and make the slideshows for the graduation. Not a ton of excitement to report for today...
Sdrastvuyte (hello)! Did you remember what that means? If so, Atlichna (super)! Thanks (spasseeba) for reading. Today we went on our first assignment! The start times are getting earlier and our days are getting longer but the students are...