WELCOME Teacher Practitioners F2020

Writing Prompt:

Rhiannon Giddens singin I'm On My Way

The following quotes are excerpted from Fall 2011 Emerging Photographer (The Documentary Issue). Do you find any correlations to the work you are doing as teacher practitioners as you look more closely within your classrooms and how you will portray and share this with others?

"The good photograph is not the object; the consequences of the photograph are the objects. So that no one would say, how did you do it, where did you find it, but they would say that such things could be."   Grotte, M. (Fall 2011). Emerging Photographer (The Documentary Issue), p. 37.

What does it take to be a great documentary photographer? "For starters, the projects you pursue should be, first and foremost, personal. "There should be a deep caring for both the subject and the making of beautiful photographs," notes acclaimed documentary photographer Darcy Padilla. "A photograph should have a certain honesty and personal conviction that resonates. To care is to take risks."

"Absorb the work of others and deeply examine how they did what they did."

"Documentary photography chooses you, not the other way around. It's a calling hard to ignore. And ultimately, it's heart that matters. Be daring. Be genuine. ANything less, and it will show."

Witty, P. (Fall 2011). A photo Editor's Insights. Emerging Photographer (The Documentary Issue), p. 45-46.

Bronx Boys by Stephen Shames chronicles the lives of young boys coming of age in a community ravaged by drugs, violence and gangs.