Being a photographer allows you to enter a place that you're curious about or that you care about -- something that you want to see for yourself, something you want to witness for yourself, or something you want to say. It gives you the excuse to be there. So having a camera around your neck is really very liberating in a lot of ways. I think this is the main thing you have to make sure that kids have understood it very well. Let them believe they are special when they are hanging out with the camera. That with the camera they have the power, the ability to document their lives, to tell stories, to show their fears, their dreams…
posted by Bong Tara @ 5:55 PM
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10 Comments:
salam setare khanoom,
ax hatoon kheili kheili ghashangan,man kheili khosham oomad,shayad dalile inke man az inha kheili khosham oomad in bashe ke man ham akasi ro kheili doost daram va ham bacheharo.
tabrik migam behetoon.
These are not my photos.
kids have taken them,
thankS anyway.
s.
enghad nayoomadi ke man raftam.hala kojaye jahan hasty?
but in Iran u know, people don let u take their photo, its almost forbiden
it seems that u become so close to these cambodian street-people, they r so convenient with u
you got to find, to invent ways,
ways that let people trust you.
in Iran
Cambodia
Ghana
or anywhere else peoPLe are peoPLe,
if you respect them
they let you do anything,
and I mean ANyTHing.
yOu may need some suggestions...
Be sPeciaL, Be smaRt, keep yourself in a shadow and watch them carefully, don't come out of this gloom,
You are safe there and they
Trust you.
do u tell children about the theoritical aspects of work? how u share that thing?
it is hard to imagine those street kids took these high quality photos
or u choose some among photos?
One day -soon, I believe-
I'LL write my methodology down.
Then you will clearly see how a 12year old is a natural born photographer.
See, photography is not just about taking pictures.
Is also about writing, understanding, thinking, talking, and observing. Photography is a language. You're gonna speak it right if you learn it right.
All of us can see, so are all of us photographers?
Defiantly not, but once you realize that camera is just a tool to visualize your thoughts,
Then yes you are a Photographer.
Answering your questions,
How I share things with them…
We talk, we draw
We think loud, we analyze each picture.
Do I choose between their photos for uploading them here?
Of course I do.
But the point is that it's impossible to be "accidentally" an artist.
Artists are not accidentally anything. And these kids are artists…
actually u r the artist
lets see how ur projct affects the life of these children in the long run.
i heard that somebody in Argentina is doing a project just like yours with poor teenagers of Buenos ayres.
tOO many peOPLe
are doing tOO many projects
-same as my project, more or less-
with kids
around the woRLd
I believe in small stuff that can lead ones life toward big changes.
My work is that smaLL suff.
Too many?? Id like to think not enough...whether or not you consider the child an artist is arbitrary. Photography, especially, can be a wonderful means for a young person of any background to explore and interpret their surroundings. The important thing is that they are aware.
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