We finally started with the Photography project. I handed out cameras to all the kids, after explaining the project to them (Eduardo translated again for me) - They are supposed to take pictures to a chosen topic like "my home", "my best friend", "my favorite animal" etc. And since they only have 24 exposures, I told them that they are only allowed to take 2 pictures per day, so that they think about what they want to take pictures of first.
So much for the theory. In reality it looked like on the second day most kids had already half finished their cameras and hadn´t given it one thought. Which is understandable, when this is the first camera you own- they just went mad and took pictures of everything and everyone.
One other phenomenon is that a lot of the parents took the cameras off their kids to shoot some family pictures, which again is pretty understandable if you consider that none of them has ever had the chance to do so. On the other hand I have to fight my disappointment and think about the whole thing. We try again the next day to tell them why they should not just shoot around like mad and what it could be for them (we planned an exhibition with the pictures after finishing the project and were thinking about other ways to market the images). Eduardo has to do a lot of talking with the parents to make them understand too. It is like that in the jungle: when something is for free you take it. And nobody really thanks you for it or considers anything else.
Law of the jungle. Whatever you leave lying around, you don´t need anymore..
I think next time I try something like this I would know better and talk to the parents first.
some of the kids seem to listen to me though and take it very seriously. They come to me all day long asking "can I take a picture of a butterfly?", "can I take a picture of a beetle?" "Can I take a picture of the tree?".. it is pretty cute.
I seem to be pretty popular since the photography started, because a lot of people show up at the house, pretending to visit by chance and then ask if they can have a camera after 5 minutes. I have given out all my 50 cameras and can only hope, that they take some other than family pictures with them..
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