After watching the film "One Hour Photo", I came up with an idea for a community project. Even though One Hour Photo is a thriller and often haunting, the main character played by Robin Williams says some interesting theories on photography. In a scene where he is looking at some images taken by a child, he says:
"Most people don't take snapshots of the little things. The used Band-Aid, the guy at the gas station, the wasp on the Jell-O. But these are the things that make up the true picture of our lives. People don't take pictures of these things."
This quote gave me the idea of contacting a local school or specialist school and giving a collection of pupils a disposable camera and ask them to take pictures of things that are important to them. I would then collect the camera and develop them. The intention of this is to investigate the mindset of a child. As this project wouldn't benefit me particularly, I suggested the idea to a class mate, who is interested in going into teaching. I felt this would benefit more as this project would possibly help her in the understanding of children and she could maybe take a different approach to teaching.
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