More Kapka

Valentine's Day

For Valentine's Day projects in Photography Club we focused on emotions. We had handmade conversation hearts with emotions on them and the kids took photos of each other expressing each one. These photos turned into a cute Valentine's Day card for their parents which read, even when I'm (emotion), (emotion), (emotion)... I still love you!" Super cute, I even made one for my mom so the kids could take turns taking photos of me.

Self Portrait Class

One of my favorite subjects, as I'm sure most of my readers know by now, is self portraiture. We did a class with Kapka where the kids were required to include themselves in a photo and to create their name out of something and photograph it. Here are my photos that I used as examples.

Photography Classes

Over the past 8 months I have offered a few different photography classes to a few different groups of kids. My first adventure in teaching was with Kapka, a cooperative K-5 school where my new found friend, Marcia, teaches. I came in once a week for Create and Explore Hour and led Photography Club. Kids had the choice to join us for an hour photography class or any of the multiple activities offered at the same time. I had an average of 5 kids each class and we learned about everything from composition to portraits to photo walks and showing emotion in photos. The main message we wanted to teach is How to Tell A Story. All photography tells a story, but how? What does it say? We also wanted to portray that everyone's life is unique and different across the globe or across the city. Where do you live? What do you eat? How do you celebrate Thanksgiving? The next few posts will be Kapka posts, followed by an explanation of my other photography class at the Tintinger household.

Here's a quick collage of some of the kids I taught at Kapka