Anyone can build a camera.
This workshop aims to show kids how cameras work and how they have the ability to construct their very own with very basic and everyday materials. Each child designed everything from the camera box, the pinhole. Each camera is a totally unique product of the children themselves; a testimony to the passion each child has for photography and at the same time to the wonderful invention of photography.
Image has become an easy and everyday commodity of expression and is often taken for granted; evident in the way photographs are used by youth today. By giving each child the opportunity to make their own camera, each gained a new awareness of image. Once completed and asked to use their cameras, the kids took ownership of the images they made,focusing on composition and subject matter and other aspects of making good photographs, almost instinctively.
The results reveal much of the vulnerability of photographic paper but also much about the nature of light. Each child made severalphotographs and despite over exposures, light leaks and focal distortions, the film and its reaction with light always manages to surprise you. Providing you with something better than a photograph.
The greatest hope of this workshop is that the kids will continue experimenting with various forms of media to document their world through image.
The Awassa Pin-Hole workshop! Pinhole Photographers: Adana, Addisu, Bruk (Big), Bruk (Small), Dagmar, Ghennet, Kids, Minttesnot, Nebiu, Semira, Temesghen, Uscetu, Sion, Zelalem Werkitu, Wondmaghen.
he dream was born in Awassa, under the dark arches where a group of street children lived, trying to protect themselves from the world around them. One day these youngesters started to make card-board pin-hole camera to play with the light, rediscover their world and overcome their fear of it. This is the dream of the children of Awassa and of LUC: to have a good place where they can grove up in peace, a welcoming place where they can house more children, a useful working place for adults too, a meeting place for ideas from around the world and also something like a school that will help them to grow and stimulate their creativity, a special corner of the world.
LUC stand for Let Us Change. Let Us Change ourselves, and perhaps the world will follow you.
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