Essential Question: How can photography change the world?
master works of art explored in the beginning of this program.
Foundation Statement:
Our world faces serious environmental and social issues. One may feel angry and scared and not encouraged to express those feelings. The result is a sense of disempowerment. By asking the question “what makes you most angry about your world?”, students will have an opportunity to reflect and explore issues in their world that they feel most passionate about. Through writing and class discussion, they will determine one issue about which they could conceivably create an essay using photography and text. Through creating photographs and a final project of a photo installation using text, photographs and found objects, and through constructive critique, discussion and journaling, students will learn to collaborate and respect each other’s uniqueness as well as rejoice in their own. Working with real deadlines on a final project, they will realize the need for structure and discipline. Through researching the history and possible solutions for the issues they have chosen, they will learn problem-solving techniques and ways to teach others about a given subject. By visiting museums and looking at world changing photographs, they will explore what makes a powerful image. By visiting not-for-profit agencies who work to protect the environment through recycling, they will discover that solutions to huge problems are possible. They will begin to see things from a broader perspective, and realize that they each have something to bring to the world, and that they each can make a difference in the world they live.
