Eye to Eye Photographs

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Eye to Eye Photographs
Who?
Where?
What?
How?
Why?
Eye to Eye
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• Anything new attracts me and thats why I am
  very happy to come for the photography classes.
  We can store a slice of time through photography
  which is not to be discarded just like that.
  Hence in a few seconds we can capture the things
  we like and preserve the memories. There is no
  end to learning, and these are small steps to
  learning new things.
• Jaya, India

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Why?
Why do your parents take photos of you?
Why is A picture worth a thousand words?
Why does your school do a school photo?
When someone takes a photo of you, do you smile?
What can we learn from looking at a photo?
Why might you choose a photo to get a message
across?
What makes a good photo?
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Where?
Eye to Eye has run workshops all around the
world, because we think that its an opportunity
for these children to take photos of their daily
lives, problems and concerns, and to share them
to their families, community, and with students
here in England.
Eye to Eye workshops were set up around the world
and by the North East borders of South Africa
A City and a town in Bolivia.
In a village in Pakistan.
A city and a rural area of India
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What did they photograph?
Their community
Their friends
Their family
Their area
The people they see everyday
and how they see them
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How did the children take the photos?
Workshops were set up to show the participants
how to use the cameras.
Over 2000 photos were taken, from Bolivia to
South Africa, with fantastic results.
After their initial fears about using the camera,
the participants were soon taking loads of
photos, with children in Pakistan sometimes
starting before 7am to get the best photos
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What did they do with the photos?
This is the place the lady said I could sleep.
Before I would look for a safe place under a dark
tree in the bush outside of town and cover myself
with some grass so that no one can see me. (Boy
after crossing illegally into South Africa)
Once they had all the photos, they added
captions, to give a better understanding of their
lives
This is the wire we cross through at the border.
We cross in a group because it is safer.
Emmanual, 15, Musina, South Africa
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This is the picture of the paddy field where new
seedlings have been sown. I love this picture as
I love trees and plants and open fields. I feel
comfortable in these surroundings.
Uma, 16, Female, Midnapore, India
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This girl is making the bricks and stacking them.
All these bricks can be made within three hours.
First you have to make the mud dough, and then
the bricks can be made.
Geeta K, 12, female, Mithrio Bhatti, Pakistan
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Ivan, 17, Llallagua, Bolivia
She is a sweet lady, and her hands are incredibly
skilled because it is with her hands that she
stiches the beautiful figures and angels onto the
aguayos. With the talent she has, she is the
queen of aguayos.
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• Sometimes its easy to identify with the eye to
  eye photographers

Studying at school
Or working
Having lunch with friends
Instead of going to school
But then sometimes, you see quite how different
it can be growing up in another part of the world
Posing with friends
Looking after livestock
In dangerous or tiring jobs
Doing chores
Making your own meals .from scratch
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What photographs would you take
The child workers who took these photos are just
a tiny fraction of the 218 million children
working worldwide, half of whom are doing
dangerous jobs.
In England and Spain, students have heard these
stories, learnt from them, and are responding.
To show how were different
and how were the same.