Hong Sar's video of photo class in Chiang Mai

Our friend, Hong Sar, taught with us the second day at the Best Friends Library in Chiang Mai. He also shot and edited this video of the class. A great teacher, and a great photographer and videographer.
Thanks to Hong Sar for putting this together! Visit Hong Sar's website too: www.hongsar.com



Towards the end of the video you see the kids moving lights around in the air. This is an activity we did called "light painting" or "light graffiti." We use a darker room, and long exposure to create drawings or paintings in the air. The kids love it and it helps them understand the concepts of exposure and light capture in photography.

Youth on Record at the Synergy School

Group image of Denver and the mountains.

Here are images from another light painting workshop with Flobots.org, this time at the Synergy School in Denver, Colorado. This residential treatment facility focuses on substance rehabilitation for teens. We worked with teenage boys, and they all really loved the process and final images.

Individual album cover

 As usual, we started with some group light graffiti and moved on to individual images. Students were welcome to invite friends to participate int their "individual" images, but they were required to be the "directors" and to tell the collaborators how to accomplish this vision.

Group image #1. Not bad for a first try, huh?!

 Youth on Record instructor Nathan Schmidt has been working with the boys, teaching them how to produce their own music. These images will be the album covers for their individual albums. These guys were super fun and the staff at the school really went above and beyond to turn a very well lit room into a darkroom for us. Thanks for your help, Synergy School!