Session Five: “Moving Forward”

For the last session of the photography workshops, I felt it was critical to encourage the students to develop their their own ideas and interests related to photography. As I will leave a camera with both groups of students, to be checked out from the adult in charge of each group, I wanted to be sure the students felt confident about continuing to explore photography on their own, outside of the workshop.

To do this, I asked each student to come up five themes or concepts they would like to focus on in their photography in the future. Each student chose one, then we planned out a short field trip that would allow each child to photograph those things they found interesting.

The following posts are (some of) the results of this assignment, with themes that focus on everything from colors to nature. Each post represents the interest of one of the students participating in the workshops.

Theme: Things I Like

Photograph captions (numbered left to right):

1) “I like this house.”

2) “I like flower.”

3) “I like to jump.”

4) “I like butterfly.”

 Theme: Colors of Clothing

Photograph captions (numbered left to right):

 Theme: Colorful Flowers

Photograph captions (numbered left to right):

1) “The color of this flower is yellow, and it has different leaves from other flowers.”

2) “The color of these flowers is yellow and red.”

3) “The color of these flowers is yellow.”

4) “The color of these flowers is red.”

Theme: Near the River

Photograph captions (numbered left to right):

1) “This picture shows the meaning of water which is flowing.”

2) “This is a picture of a bird on a pole near the river. This is a beautiful picture, isn’t it? It is lovely, I think.”

3) “Here is a beautiful waterfall. When I think of beautiful water, this is the meaning of what I think of.”

4) “This is a picture of flowers growing near the river. It is beautiful and natural.”