Photography workshop and exhibition

The Photography workshop for Sambhali girls, held by our volunteer Ms. Becky Moyce, and the following Photo exhibition of the best pictures of both workshops - the boy's and the girl's - have been a great success.

Ms. Becky Moyce:
"As I had never met the students before I arrived I wasn’t sure what level of understanding to expect from them or how much of a problem the language barrier could be and so I began the workshops with very basic lessons. At first we talked about what photography is and how it is is used, I explained to them how pictures are made and we discussed the various different places that we see photographs being used. We looked at newspapers, magazines, books and advertisements as well as at wedding pictures, portraits, and passport pictures and drivers licenses. Most of the girls associated photography with fashion and advertising talking about makeup, jewellery photography as well as weddings and when I asked them what kinds of things they would like to photograph many of them said they would enjoy taking pictures of fashion items such as saris, make up and jewellery whilst a few girls were more interested in taking pictures of weddings, children or wildlife… in particular tigers!"

Read this full report here.

The Exhibition

Ms. Becky Moyce:
"Regardless of the many obstacles we faced the exhibition went ahead today and in fact transpired to be a great success. We were a little late starting but the photography work the students had produced was of such high quality and so impressive that this didn’t matter. We managed to persuade Mr.Shiva a local well known photographer to come and judge which would be the winning photo’s and he was very impressed with the work that the students had produced which was a great boost for their self esteem and a wonderful way to end the workshops I have been doing with them.

We then experienced some fantastic luck when members of a local photography club turned up and were so wowed with the ability of the students after only 20 days in the workshops that they requested to award their own prizes for a 1st, 2nd and 3rd place. This was incredible because now we had not only two winners but 5 awards and endorsements from several experts in photography, the girls were thrilled.

The photography club members were so impressed with the students work that they have also offered to deliver some further, in depth workshops to the participants after I have left to continue the work I have been doing with them." Full report