My Photos - Save The Children

Universal Education #1

Education is what leads the world today. In this photograph, I want to show that every child has the chance to earn his or her education and take their place in leading the world to make it a better place. The children are our future and they each deserve that chance.

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Universal Education #2

School is a place that children should feel excited about. Children have a right to a safe, fun, and fulfilling education. I believe that every child should have the privilege to wake up every morning excited about going to school, and going to a place where they can learn and thrive. This was the belief that inspired this photograph.

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Universal Education #3

Two minds are better one. When children work together, they share ideas and that is what makes education universal. The sharing of knowledge makes learning different cultures, beliefs, ideas and opinions possible.

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Abbie Trayler-Smith

http://abbietraylersmith.com/albums/mali.html

Abbie Trayler-Smith was born in 1977 in South Wales. She studied at Kings College London and studied her law degree. As a side, she took pictures for the student newspaper, and then after graduating, (being completely self-taught) she began working for the Daily Telegraph thus starting her career in photography. She later quite the Daily Telegraph to work as a freelance photographer, and to work more on location. Some of her works include the forgotten war in Sudan, the famine crisis in Malawi, and most recently her 2009 exhibition Still Human, Still Here, which tells the story of the underground world of destitute asylum seekers in the UK. To see more of Abbie Trayler-Smith’s work go to http://abbietraylersmith.com/.

This photograph is part of Abbie Trayler’s exhibition based in Mali.

“Abbie, would you mind going to the Sahel for 3 weeks to hang out with elephants and Tuareg warriors? Oh and you can’t wash or the elephants will smell you. It shouldn’t be too hot, only 43 degrees in the shade and watch out for the camel spiders and scorpions….”

I chose this photo because I love the colors of it and the colors of the desert. It was taken of a herder caught in the middle of a sand storm. I think, though the situation is unfortunate, the wind and the visibility decrease caused by the sand makes the photo really nice and catches your eye. And the herder’s garments, which are being blown around by the wind, are really elegant.

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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.

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Kate Moss

Her modeling career started in 199_ with Calvin Klien.

Greenpeace

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Coca-Cola