Kid Reporters
Video
Welcome to LATINPHOTO.org's Kid Reporters Project
LATINPHOTO.org is a photo agency with a strong social profile founded 25 years ago by Patrick Lüthy. As part of our educational outreach, we propose the Kid Reporters (Niños Reporteros in Spanish) Project.
Kid
Reporters is a practical
introductory workshop to
photojournalism with a
socio-environmental focus aimed
at children. We propose the
exercise of learning to think
about nature and the care of the
environment from the
photographer's point of view,
understanding the possibilities
we have as communicators, as
creators of a story and
integrating from the beginning
the human being into the
environment he or she inhabits,
as a space of our own, as a
space of which we are a part.
Therefore, a reportage of nature
is a report on the
photographer's own environment,
the child in this case, it
means, a space that we are
protagonists and not an alien
space that is reported as a
witness.
The
damage we are causing to the
environment is known for
everyone and most of us want to
take action to reverse it. Each
person in his or her role is
important, from the scientists
who verify the environmental
impacts on the countryside to
those who make political
decisions about the fate of a
wild space that belongs to all
of us. Those of us who educate
and communicate have a key role
to play, as we are the ones who
can disseminate positive
attitudes to serve as an example
and inspiration to others, or
denounce those that will have
negative consequences if not
corrected.
For
us, who are adults today, the
responsibility is not only to
ourselves, but to the
generations who will inherit the
planet, and it is important that
we leave them a world as
beautiful, diverse and
resource-rich as we have had the
privilege to know and usufruct.
That
is why, in order to learn to see
collectively, to express their
opinions with wisdom and to tell
stories with images, in
mid-2018, we launched Kid
Reporters.
LATINPHOTO provides each group
with a camera, ideas and
foundations for a course + the
space to publish the photographs
taken by the children.
The
proposal is dynamic and, as
such, has been nurtured by each
team that joined, permanently or
temporarily, until we integrated
to the Andean Cat Alliance
Educational Programme in 2022.
Since then we have created a
specific plan for the Lagunillas
del Farallón Primary School,
proposing a holistic project
where we work on the
conservation of the environment
through playful and experiential
dynamics, participatory
practices, artistic expressions,
and notions of research, among
others.
We
begin our 6th chapter in the
year 2024 with an absolutely
positive balance, enriched by
the achievements, in permanent
evolutionary challenge and with
many new friends and
collaborators.
Why
do we ask for permission to use
images? See our manifest
on image misuse and manipulation
here. For more information,
please contact Silvina
Enrietti.
Manual
Kid Reporters in action
School
Nº 131,
Alfonsina
Storni,
Lagunillas del
Farallón (2022
- 2024)
Rinconada,
Jujuy
Province,
Argentina
School
Nº 17 D.E. 17,
Rodolfo
Rivarola (2018
- 2024)
Autonomous
City of Buenos
Aires,
Argentina
Pedro
Milesi
Foundation and
Popular
Library of
Bella Vista
(2018 - 2024)
City of
Córdoba,
Province of
Córdoba,
Argentina
Special
Education and
Labour
Training
School Nº 29
D.E. 18, Dr.
Osvaldo
Magnasco +
Educative
Center Nº 3
(2018 - 2024)
Autonomous
City of Buenos
Aires,
Argentina
Educational
Centre for
Total
Production Nº
11 (2019)
Martín Fierro
Colony,
Province of
Buenos Aires,
Argentina
Children of
Las Bateas de
Maurica and El
Terreno de
Puerto La Cruz
(2018 - 2019)
Barcelona,
Anzoátegui
State,
Venezuela
School Nº 18
Gral. Rondeau
(2018 - 2019)
Santa
Catalina,
Jujuy
Province,
Argentina
For more
information,
please contact
the project
director,
Silvina
Enrietti, at
the following
address:
enrietti@latinphoto.org.
enrietti@latinphoto.org.
Fotos:
Leandro Ibañez
- NR Escuela
de Educación
Especial y
Formación
Laboral Nº 29
Mónica
Enrietti - NR Escuela Nº 17
Dibujos
: Fabian Lüthy
Coordinación
&
Responsable del proyecto : Silvina
Enrietti/LATINPHOTO.org