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HOW DO YOU EDUCATE YOURSELF SO YOU CAN BETTER HELP YOUR STUDENTS? I look a lot at student work and talk to them about their interests. I then go online and see what other artists and photographers may have done in that field and how they have done it. I spend a lot of time on online forums, watching tutorials, or exploring different genres in order to better help my students. Essentially, I am constantly learning alongside them. I find it pointless to teach the same thing to everyone. Last year a student said she loved the work of Prue Stent and Masie Cousins so I went online and explored their work and their techniques with that student. We experimented making coloured cornflour paste, and Googled the ingredients for a milk bath so she could do a shoot at home. We bought glitter, and slime and found out how hard it is to clean it up after you have taken photos with it and that the glitter keeps reappearing weeks, even months later. It’s about learning, and experimenting together. This year when a student asked me about those two photographers, I was ready with answers! When you train to be a teacher, or train within your subject matter, it doesn’t mean you now know everything. You can learn as much from your students as they can learn from you if you choose to. TELL US HOW YOUR SCHOOL HAS TEAMED UP WITH EXCIO TO SHOWCASE STUDENTS’ WORK… It started with me leaving a comment on one of the <strong>NZPhotographer</strong> Magazine posts on Facebook that asked what we, as a community, wanted to see in the magazine. I was tired of seeing all the posts of landscapes and what I felt was the same style of photography again and again posted by the photographic community. I felt that it excluded the creativity and talent of our younger generation. I use this magazine as a teaching tool, and I wanted to see the magazine evolve and attract a younger generation of reader – I think this is definitely happening lately, which is awesome. Ana and I began talking about my feature on the Excio blog and I asked her if we could have an Excio account for the school as the photography the students do is fantastic, and a bit different from what we normally see showcased in photography magazines and in social media. She was immediately supportive and when she came to talk to our students she was so inspirational. She essentially voiced the message that I have been trying to get across to our students about photography telling the students that photography does not have to be about the ‘likes’, the ‘followers’ and the ‘influencers’, but it can be about doing good and communicating a message for change or just sharing a beautiful moment. I feel very grateful to have had someone like Ana in my classroom living those words with her work with Excio and NZP as an example of how a photographic community can be based on something other than the pursuit of fame and money. At the moment we have around 8 students on Excio with 1–3 photos per student, but are in the process of adding more. What we are trying to do is showcase a variety of images from our students so users of the app can see how varied our students’ talents and interests are. I have put together a student team to help me administer the school collections so we can showcase as many as 120 photos at a time. It’s very exciting for us, and gives students the motivation to strive hard to be innovative and creative because, in the end, it is those images that have the most impact and those are the ones we want to show. Photography as a subject is only growing at Kapiti College, and with our partnership with Excio it will only attract more students keen to be appreciated for the innovators and artists that they are. HOW DO YOU THINK PHOTOGRAPHY BENEFITS KIDS AS A WHOLE? Photography has something for kids who think and see things differently. Maybe they can’t draw or play a musical instrument but are still creative. Imagine a world without creative people, without photography, art and music, it would be a very grey world. Children paint, sing, and dance before they read, write, and calculate. It’s their way of communicating, and essentially that is what art is in its purest form; a vehicle for personal expression. Photography facilitates creativity, personal expression, communication, and changes the way kids look at the world. Once you begin to be able to communicate a message with an image, you start seeing the potential for photos, and for communication everywhere. Remember, we are a society made of kids whose first instinct is to imagine, create and explore. Why can’t we continue this into adulthood? <strong>September</strong> <strong>2019</strong> 19
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