Below you will see a selection of photographs taken by twelve young photographers from St Cuthbert’s RC High School.
The year 9 students were selected by the school to work in two groups of six with a professional photographer, Robert Freeman, for three day sessions. The students were equipped with cameras – not mobile phone cameras – and taught the essentials of photography in session one, guided in the art of taking interesting photographs at St John’s in session two and taught editing skills in session three.
The culmination of the project was an exhibition of the students’ work at St Cuthbert’s for all fellow students and staff to see and an exhibition in the narthex at St John’s that has already been viewed by hundreds of visitors and parishioners.
The project with St Cuthbert’s was so successful that we repeated it the following year with another group of year 9 students. This time there were two groups with a total of nine students and with our learning from the first project we gave them an additional day to complete their work.
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