Photography Workshop for Children in Suriçi

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Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality Amed Art Gallery Coordinator, photographer Kibar Suvari has initiated workshop with 10 children aged between 11-13 living in Diyarbakır’s Suriçi district for basic photography training to last eight weeks.

Suvari said the most important goal of this project is to enable children who have been socially and psychologically affected by the incidents express their suppressed feelings via photo.

“We aim that they recognize the difficulties they experience instead of suppressing them, have them acquire self-confidence to cope with them and document what they experience through photos”.

Suvari noted that their target is to develop the empathy skill of the children required for social life and help them understand meaning and root of their feelings in different situations in their lives.

Work topics

Following works will take place in the workshop that will continue at Dengbêjevi and Dicle Fırat Culture Center: Meeting games, my feelings-thoughts (collage work or drawing), making camera obscura, making lens by trash box, flower binocular, acting, writing short paragraph, expressing their own qualities and taking photo, speaking about taking photo (Why do I take photo? What do I want to show?), shooting techniques, creating and developing your own idea, genuine photo taking, reading photo, writing letters as to what they have felt after the project.

Camera will be given as gift to children after the workshop is completed. (BD/YY/TK)