Day Five and Six
This week we began the unit called “Aqui Estoy.” And much to my chagrin, only four kids showed up today – the girls. Apparently, the boys “had to study.” Anyway, it was nice to have a small group for this day. The unit ‘Aqui Estoy‘ looks at the individual within their community through photography and poetry. Tuesday we talked in depth about portraiture and looked at many examples. Then, in partners we went out in the community and began to shoot the portraits.
This took up the rest of the class. Some outtakes from messing around:
Thursday, we edited the photos on the computer and the youth explored with black and white, color, antique etc. in a photo editing program and chose how they wanted to make their portrait. They began to write the poetry about their background, history, selves, etc., to pair with the portraits. Though, we didn’t finish the poems, I am going to post the portraits anyway because I was so darn impressed with them. The kids are amazing! At our next meeting we will be finalizing our poems, which I will post again with the portraits.
Self-portrait by Doris:
Portrait of Bianka, by Doris:
Portrait of Jennifer, by Kimberli:
Portrait of Kimberli, by Jennifer:
