07.02.07
National Geographic sponsors teen photo camp in San Fran’s Chinatown
Right: National Geographic Photo Camp photo by Qiaowei Queenie Yu
National Geographic recently handed out digital cameras to 15 teens in San Francisco’s Chinatown and, after giving them some pointers, set them loose to capture scenes of the neighborhood as they know it. You can view their work at SF Gate and National Geographic.
Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer and National Geographic contributor Jay Dickman, who tutored the teens, said, “I was impressed by how they stepped into the Asian community and were able to get images that would have been difficult had they not been Asian, the way they got under the fabric and into somebody’s life.”
The event was part of National Geographic’s Photo Camps, a series of four-day summer workshops in seven U.S. cities and Oaxaca, Mexico. The Photo Camps are sponsored in part by Maryland-based VisionWorkshops, a photojournalism mentoring program.
A Child’s Eye View of Chinatown, San Francisco said,
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