{"id":294,"date":"2012-03-06T19:11:34","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T19:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.organicarts.org.uk\/projects\/?p=294"},"modified":"2012-04-01T20:48:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T20:48:00","slug":"photography-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.organicarts.org.uk\/projects\/posts\/photography-project\/","title":{"rendered":"photography project"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Welcome to the participatory photography blog. My name is Clare Henry\u00a0and I started the photography project a few weeks ago. I will be working with some of the volunteers who are involved with the Ecominds community garden. They\u00a0 are doing gardening\u00a0work and other valuable\u00a0activities around the farm. There is a wide age range among the volunteer group and differing life situations. Some of them are dealing with mental and physical health issues.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I’ve started\u00a0 with 3 volunteers and I will be teaching and sharing camera and photographic skills and facilitating participants to make personal photo journals\/albums around the general theme\u00a0 ‘The Farm Through My Eyes’.\u00a0 There may be an exhibition of work and I\u00a0hope to involve more of the volunteers at a later point.<\/p>\n

This is a participatory photography project where other final outcomes, apart from the personal journals\u00a0will be fully negotiated with participants. It is the process which is important.The healing potential of the arts and their value in supporting mental and physical wellbeing has been recognised and photography has a valuable role.\u00a0As well as developing photographic skills I see this project as therapeutic photography.\u00a0Offering an invitation to play, explore, and \u00a0discuss –\u00a0photography can also be\u00a0a way of creating order and\u00a0taking control. When taking pictures we need to think about\u00a0what to photograph, why and\u00a0how things or people and places relate to each other. It\u00a0provides a contained framework for ideas. I trained with Photovoice last year and have a lengthy background in social\/community work. Photovoice sees some of the strengths of therapeutic photography as encouraging storytelling, sharing,\u00a0making sense\u00a0of our world and our place in it or simply distracting us from worries.<\/p>\n

During the first weeks we\u00a0have been\u00a0learning about\u00a0focusing, framing, composition and experimenting with portraits as well as\u00a0having lots of fun.<\/p>\n

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self portrait_ Caroline<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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assisted self portrait_Rhys<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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self portraits -Rhys<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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'I love the animals at the farm' _Caroline<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Ice sculpture _ Val<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Winter Pansies val<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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'It's water off a duck's back' photo Rhys<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Winston the farm dog photo_ caroline<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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More soon…..Clare<\/p>\n

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