Thursday, August 03, 2006
What is Chaya doing?
Chaya is photo journalist for the CITTI Tour to Ecuador. She takes pictures with a huge digital camera with a wide angle lens. A wide angle is so fitting for what she wants to do. She wants to depict the process that is going on between students and the CITTI folks and teachers. So she does not do much in the way of head shots, which I do a lot of.
She is a keen observer and follows whatever the program is doing each day. She floats from room to room watching and photographing. She is particularly interested in following youngsters she saw last summer in Huambalo. So she spends a lot of time with Miguel and Santiego to see the changes from last year. Basically she is interested in the impact of the CITTI Project on their lives and on their families.
She follows the teachers to see what they are doing now in school. She is interested in the collaboration going on between the community and the CITTI Project. She is documenting information on children to compare what is seen next year when the project returns.
She was particularly interested in documenting the gift from the children to the CITTI people. The first day at Humbalo the children gave us the gift of their dancing. It was lots of fun to watch, but in my case, I also enjoyed being invited to dance.
Let me finish by telling you another very exciting project Chaya has taken on. It has already been mentioned here on the blog, but the coolest thing Chaya did was to give the children point and shoot digital cameras to record how they saw this experience. I am sure we will all look forward to seeing Chaya´s pictures and the photos of the children.
She is a keen observer and follows whatever the program is doing each day. She floats from room to room watching and photographing. She is particularly interested in following youngsters she saw last summer in Huambalo. So she spends a lot of time with Miguel and Santiego to see the changes from last year. Basically she is interested in the impact of the CITTI Project on their lives and on their families.
She follows the teachers to see what they are doing now in school. She is interested in the collaboration going on between the community and the CITTI Project. She is documenting information on children to compare what is seen next year when the project returns.
She was particularly interested in documenting the gift from the children to the CITTI people. The first day at Humbalo the children gave us the gift of their dancing. It was lots of fun to watch, but in my case, I also enjoyed being invited to dance.
Let me finish by telling you another very exciting project Chaya has taken on. It has already been mentioned here on the blog, but the coolest thing Chaya did was to give the children point and shoot digital cameras to record how they saw this experience. I am sure we will all look forward to seeing Chaya´s pictures and the photos of the children.
