Thanks Emily, and I totally agree with you - I've never done pinhole
stuff myself, and whilst I'm sure it's great fun, from the point of view
of the process, I think what I need for this group is something that
ignites their interest, and that relates in some way to their own lives.
I love your comment about learning to 'look and see'. And through that,
I think see the world in a slightly different way (which may even help
their own circumstances).
So, I guess the mission here is to find subject material to hang it on,
and little tasks they can do in a class room environment (they are
mostly happy to go within 50 yards of the building, though not much
further) which investigate that subject material...
Hmm...food for thought.
Jonathan
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On 19/01/2015 01:09, Emily L. Ferguson wrote:
I'm sure it's lots of fun to demonstrate ones knowledge of arcane corners of photography, but really, the original inquiry was in search of ideas for what to do with a bunch of people, some with handicaps both spiritual and physical, to START them on having fun with taking pictures.
Surely we can offer him more than pinhole.
Don't any of you teach at your local community college or YMCA/highschool evening/senior center-type places?
Get them started with a project that's designed to remove their attention from the tool and focus it on their own life experience. For the audience it sounds like he's working with, an initial goal should be learning to look and see. From the sounds of it this might be one of their first opportunities to stop looking inside their heads.
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