Positive and Negative: A Photography Project
Students from the Positive and Negative project
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A project inspired by the National Portrait Gallery’s Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2009 at the Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead.
Nine students from Joseph Swan Comprehensive School, Gateshead have taken part in a four week photography project with the Shipley Art Gallery in Gateshead, called Positive and Negative.
The young people were studying key skills on the Princes Trust XL programme. The Positive and Negative project contributed towards the key skills of ‘working with others’, ‘improving my own learning’ and ‘problem solving’.
The group were encouraged to think about their own identity as well as positive and negative perceptions of young people in society in order to challenge these issues through portraiture.
The students worked with photographer Aaron Guy, learning about the basic technical knowledge required for taking pictures using various formats, as well as image composition, capturing light and colour, controlling exposure and framing their subject.
The final work was then displayed in the Gallery alongside the National Portrait Gallery’s Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2009 exhibition. The Positive and Negative exhibition is now on tour in libraries across Gateshead until December 2010.
If you would like to take part in a similar project or have other ideas of how you can work with the Gallery, please contact Virginia or Anne on (0191) 4771495.