Australian Photography

CHANGE YOUR WORLD VIEW

Recently a friend of mine noticed a small problem while teaching photography to a group of primary school students - one child’s homework looked remarkably like the work of an adult.

When confronted, the parent confessed their daughter had been so busy with sport and other activities throughout the week that they had decided to shoot the photo assignment for her.

The plan would have gone unnoticed except for one small detail - the viewpoint of the images. Rather than being shot from the usual height of a four-foot-nothing nine-year-old, the images had a viewpoint closer to that of an adult, or at least someone old enough to know better than to do a child’s homework for them. Instead of giving the girl a fail mark, my mate asked her to shoot the assignment for herself and soon after she

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