Photographs
from the 2006 Rotary
Youth Arts Project (RYAP)
PLAY
ON WORDS
Participating
photographers:
Lyndal Cairns, TJ Cavenett,
Greg Eliepa, Millie Huth,
Max Milne, Charlie Cox-Woolnough
The Rotary Youth Arts
Network is a cooperative
project between arts
organisations within
the City
of Yarra: Dancehouse,
Westside Circus and Centre
for Contemporary Photography
(CCP). Young people living,
studying or attending
youth services in the City
of Yarra were invited
to participate in a photography
workshop at the CCP.
Artists, Jessie Boylan
and Geana Bajic presented
a 15 week course covering
a wide range of topics
from documentary photography
to the urban environment,
identity, politics and
society. Participants
were given digital cameras
for the duration of the
course, introduced to
Photoshop and provided
with prints for the exhibition
in CCP’s Visy Education
Space.
Over the fifteen weeks,
students gained an understanding
of the history of photography
and became familiar with
key contemporary photographers.
Classes addressed topics
include: how to present
and speak about the work,
exhibition making, camera
skills and terminology
and strategies for working
as an artist. Participants
were given visual diaries
and asked to keep detailed
records over the fifteen
weeks.
A selection of images
by participants was also
projected during the
performance miss/perception:
spinning, stomping, snapping,
A showing of work by
young people of the Rotary
Youth Arts Project 2006:
Circus, Dance and Photography Tuesday
29 August 2006, at Dancehouse.
On behalf of the participants,
CCP acknowledges and
thanks:
Rotary Richmond, Rotary
Collingwood, VicHealth,
City of Yarra, Lab X,
Kodak, Joel Harris Office
Supplies, Fitzroy Learning
Newtork, Mollo, Realestate.com,
Crumpler, and our colleagues
at Dancehouse and Westside
Circus.
Without
this support PLAY ON
WORDS would not have
been possible.
