Darkroom Diary - March 19, 2010

This assignment was inspired by a school wide competition for Save The Children. Save The Children was having a photography competition to help advertise for their new campaign, Universal Education. The photographs we took had to somehow embody that idea, of "universal education." Since there are many schools participating in this competition, you want to do something different then what everyone else might think of, and we had to think "out of the box" about what universal education meant to us and how we were going to depict it. I had three original ideas for the photos that I planned to take.

The first was a young girl wearing a backpack, on her way to school, looking very excited. This was to show that school is a place that kids can go to feel safe, happy, and excited about. And to “advertise” it as an enjoyable to get an education, and something that all kids deserve.

The second was going to be two kids in a classroom environment, working together, and learning. This is a very typical kind of picture so I had to be careful, not to make it look too ordinary. To do this, I decided that I would work with the angle of the camera.

And the third, which I didn’t follow through with, was going to be a child and their parent, showing that the child was learning from parent, and the education is everywhere and you can find it anywhere, not just in a classroom.