Cultural Diversity and Tolerance

Pair our 15 students in our Habilidad program with a student from ABLE. One latino with one Afro-American. Give each pair a digital camera and two weeks together to explore their differences and their similarities through pictures. This would allow them to take pictures of their environment, their homes, their friends and their city. The pair of students would then edit the photos down to 5 that really express what they felt and saw and these photo's would go through a computer photoshop to make them as clean and expressive as possible. After the final edit we would frame the photo's and have and exhibit locally and hopefully in a gallery where the kids could talk about their experiences. The photo's would also be shown with short descriptions of each teams view of the project. If possible we would try very hard to have this shown in a a gallery In NYC. The project is not only geared towards closely looking at diversity in their worlds but tolerance and curiosity. The other side of this in and educational facet is teaching how to take good, expressive photographs and how to edit them and present them in a professional way. Also, the ultimate goal of exhibiting the show would help the students see the effects of their efforts on the community they live in as well as a community that would view their photographs as art as well as a study into cultural diversity.