Tag: Photo Essay
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‘Still Some Really Good Opportunities’ in City Heights: Photo Essay
By Jena Olson Students in The AjA Project have been reflecting on the positive and negative sides to socializing in City Heights as a teenager. One student, Michael, 16, is picking up that narrative with two images: one that represents a negative side and one that represents a positive side. “Something that I would like…
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‘Give Teens More Places to Go’: Photos
By Jena Olson As part of the Speak City Heights collaborative, City Heights youth continue to explore their environment through The AjA Project’s PhotoCity classes at local schools. PhotoCity uses photography programming to help youth understand how issues in their community impact them and advocate for change. At Crawford High School, students are focusing their…
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‘The Most Beautiful Pearl in the Ugliest Shell’: Photo Essay
By Jena Olson Students in The AjA Project’s PhotoCity program are constantly reflecting on how City Heights affects their lives as the youth of the community. They recently took a field trip around City Heights to photograph what they like and don’t like about their neighborhood and discuss how they would make things better if…
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‘We Need More Tutors’: Photo Essay
By Jena Olson In collaboration with Speak City Heights, The AjA Project asked students at Crawford High School to use their cameras to explore what most affects their health at school. Ismahan, 18, chose to draw attention to the importance of after-school tutors, particularly for students learning English as a second language. “The afterschool tutor…
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Class Sizes: ‘I Care Because Students Need to Learn’
By Jena Olson As part of The AjA Project PhotoCity program, students at Crawford High School spent time using cameras to examine factors at their school that affect their overall health. This week we’re showcasing a photo essay by student Hawa, 18. She used her photo essay as an opportunity to highlight the issue of…