umuzi photo workshop 27 march 2010...

on saturday the 27th of march, i joined dave, stacey and tory with one of there photo workshops with umuzi, in soweto... this is a project that gives children from the townships the oppurtunity tol earn photography and video skills, a subject they would normally not get any exposure too... this project has many benefits for the kids from the skills and knowledge point of view, but also from the aspect of them being able to show us how they see there world, instead of always being the subject of the photos...

(i have kept this short, for more details about umuzi please contact me or check out the link below...)
http://www.umuziphotoclub.blogspot.com/


on our way to the school in "soweto"... for me it
was my first time in soweto, so i was both curiuos
to see this historical place and also see what umuzi
and these kids do... i was impressed by everything
pretty much...


"david dini" the founder of the reality that is
umuzi, presenting the project for the day...
this day, since school holidays had just begun
the children were going to do a photo treasure
hunt... they were broken into groups, and then
went out onto the streets of "soweto" to photo-
graph and capture subjects on a list...


each group had a list with more than 20 topics
ranging from, "chicken" to "something that starts
with the letter z"...


one of the groups hitting the streets...


here the students are interviewing a member of the
public... there were 2 bonus interview questions on
the paper...


one of the photographers busy on the streets...


one of the topics on the list was "problems in
soweto"... the kids in my group choice this
to illustrate crime... (this is not there picture
but a picture i took, illustrating the scene...)


arriving back at the school after one hour out
shooting the competition pictures...


lunch time before presentation of a video project
and evaluation of the competition pictures... 3
students (tshepang, tapelo and joao) had come
from another school to exhibit videos they had
made with umuzi...


joao presenting his video...

unfortunatly i took no pictures of the prize
handout and judging shenanigans...

to learn more and see the videos these kids produced please click on the link below...

http://torywilliamsphotography.blogspot.com/2010/03/saturday-marked-end-of-our-workshop.html