Up and Coming Artists

For the next 6 weeks, I will be teaching a 'literacy through photography' class to the sixth graders in my community's school. Tomorrow is our first "real" photography class using the 5 cameras I have on loan from the Peace Corps Paraguay CoCuMu arts committee. The project is called "Ahecha Paraguay" and here's what it is:

- What is Ahecha Paraguay?

In Guaraní (the native language of the Guaraní people of Paraguay) Ahecha Paraguay means ¨I see Paraguay¨. Ahecha Paraguay is a project of the CoCuMu Committee of Peace Corps Paraguay, designed to give Paraguayan youth in rural areas the opportunity to learn digital photography skills while developing their self-esteem and gain new world perspectives through the lense of a camera. New skills and personal development are facilitated through hands-on workshops taught by volunteers working in communities all over Paraguay.

I will be spending Wednesday and Friday afternoons with the 10 students, talking about perspective, light, framing, and motion. We'll do activities in class and incorporate in a lot of writing, both descriptive and critical, about the photos. I am confident that there will be some amazing and revealing photographs to come out of this group of 11 and 12 year olds. I am so excited to work with them. For the most part, they are respectful and eager in the classroom. I can't wait to see what they come up with!

P.s. Pig pictures coming soon.