Photography may be one of the most talked about hobbies around the world, but it is mostly reserved for those who can afford to travel and buy the latest equipment. Most of us are amateurs who are looking for different subjects to click on at interesting angles on our mobile phones. Of course, mobile photography has helped carry the spirit of photography to a great extent, but you don’t expect the kids of daily wagers to click photos on their iPhones and flaunt them on social media with the hashtag #ShotOniPhone.
To bridge this gap and introduce the less fortunate to the world of photography, the Museo Camera Center for the Photographic Arts recently hosted a ‘Mobile Photography Workshop’ with the theme ‘The Art of Storytelling’.
The workshops were organized in collaboration with Saksham Bal Vikas Sanstha and Shiksha Shiksha Kendra, a charitable organization committed to providing education – educational and vocational – to underprivileged children.
Through these programmes, 22 children from underprivileged backgrounds from neighboring villages of Gurugram, Chakkarpur, Jharsa, Wazirabad, Nathupur and a Rajasthani village in Mandwa were selected and provided with iPhone 12s to create photo stories. They were given a mix of theory and practical lessons on mobile photography and were encouraged to develop their own unique photographic style.
“You would be surprised to know about the background of these children. They belong to the economically backward areas of our society. We provided them with an iPhone 12 with the right training and we were amazed to see what kind of stories they came up with through their photos. This exhibition was entirely about his way of telling the world the day-to-day stories he saw in his life,” said photographer Aditya Arya, Founder, Museo.
Through this workshop, we are very happy to bridge the economic gap when it comes to photography. These kids now have the necessary confidence to pick up a camera and shoot and create their own stories.”
“Sir and ma’am always say in the starting class that control the exposure but I don’t even know what the exposure is but now I have learned and always try to control it…sir will also tell your point of view and I love that,” shared. Himani Narang of Saksham Child Development Organization Gurugram participated in this workshop.
Museo Camera in Gurugram has over 18000 square feet of space dedicated to the art and history of photography and is claimed to be India’s first center for the photographic arts. They display a collection of over 2,500 cameras and other photographic equipment dating from the 1850s. Museo Camera is the largest non-profit photography museum in Southeast Asia.
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