Monday, October 13, 2008

Ramiro, 7th Grade, RYSS


I like how the shadows are showing what we are doing and thinking. I like how they are running one way and we another way. In the picture, there are four of us, each one doing a different thing. The reason why I took this image is because it shows how each one of us is thinking. I'm the one who's making the peace sign. I think that in the world, there should be peace. What I also like about the image is how it shows someone's foot. What is cool in this image is how everyone is at different angles. What I mean by this is that some of us are facing forward while others are facing to the side. I'm inspired by this picture. I really think this image shows who we are.



Ramiro, 7th Grade, Junior Academy, Raul Yzaguirre School For Success [RYSS], Houston, Texas

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October 15, 2008 at 10:50 AM
Anonymous said...

This is a good photograph because you really know how to express yourself through photography. I like how your picture shows the foot. It's really good detail in the picture. I like how the picture shows the peace sign and how everyone is about to move. It's like a movement, but with a pause.

October 15, 2008 at 12:34 PM
Anonymous said...

Nice picture with you and your friends having fun.I can tell because of the shadow.

October 15, 2008 at 3:53 PM
Anonymous said...

Before I read the text, I was thinking "I wonder what they're doing," and I saw the peace sign that you made and it was really interesting.

January 13, 2009 at 8:57 AM
Anonymous said...

Before I read the text I was wondering what you and your friends were doing and why you took that picture and after I read it I know why you like the picture so much and so do I!!!!!!!!

January 13, 2009 at 2:40 PM
Anonymous said...

I think you showed the real feel of the picture. I was thinking what the were doing but then I read the text. !!!

January 14, 2009 at 8:47 AM

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Instructors and LTP

Instructors:

Harold Olejarz is Art and Technology teacher at Eisenhower Middle School, Wyckoff, New Jersey, U.S.A. He began his career as a sculptor and exhibited in Soho, NYC, in the early 1980s. His work evolved into Performance Art and his living sculptures installed themselves in museums and public spaces in the US and Europe from 1985 to the early 1990s. He has been exploring digital media as both an artist and an educator since 1997. “Capturing the Moving Present,” an essay by Harold Olejarz, is included in Video Art for the Classroom, a National Art Education Association publication. Olejarz has made presentations on the use of digital media at state and national educational conferences.

Tom Chambers is Technology Applications teacher at Raul Yzaguirre School For Success [Junior Academy], Houston, Texas, U.S.A. He was Visiting Lecturer in Digital/New Media Art for the Fine Arts Department at Zhaoqing University, Zhaoqing, China, 2005-2007. He was Executive Committee Member and Juror (2003 - 2005) for the International Digital Art Awards (IDAA), and was instrumental in expanding the content of the IDAA to include New Media Art, and served as on-line New Media Director (2004 - 2005). Chambers has been a documentary photographer and visual artist for over thirty years, and he is currently working with the pixel as Minimal Art (Pixelscapes) which begins to approach a true, abstract, visual language in Digital Art.

Tanya Heard is Art/Photo teacher at T. H. Rogers School, Houston, Texas.

2007 - 2008 school year participant:

Dorian Gillespie is Art teacher at Southmore Intermediate School in Pasadena Texas. Prior to coming to Southmore, he taught at Bailey Elementary. He decided to teach and mentor students in the arts in order to give them an opportunity to learn and advise them of the many career choices an artist has. Although he did not teach art at Bailey, he was able to incorporate many art lessons into the curriculum. He has taught after school art classes for the University of Houston Clear Lake as well. Rather than become a professional artist, he decided to mentor as a teacher.

This blog was a part of the FotoFest LTP process:

2007 - 2008
2008 - 2009
2009 - 2010

Literacy Through Photography (LTP), the educational component of FotoFest International (Houston, Texas), is a writing program designed to help classroom students achieve better communication skills through the use of digital or film-based photography.

FotoFest has combined with the instructors and schools to pursue a pilot program ... blog approach ... for LTP.

Students increase visual and verbal literacy while building cognitive thinking skills, self-esteem, and awareness of each other. The LTP curriculum provides students with meaningful subject matter to help them write about their own photographs, their own lives, with confidence.

This blog, founded by Harold Olejarz and Tom R. Chambers continues to be a significant tool to help students with their written expression.