Photographer Judy Gelles was volunteering in a reading class at a fourth grade in a Philadelphia school when she realized that her students didn't really relate to the stories in the books she was reading to them. So she asked them to tell their own stories and she would write them down and read them back.
The stories were so compelling and poignant that suddenly, she said, "This went from being a teaching project to an art project based on the 4th grader's narratives."
She was also forbidden to take portraits but told she could photograph the students if they turned their back to her. She turned that to an artistic advantage.
[For more of this story, written by Elizabeth Perez-Luna, go to http://www.newsworks.org/index...fe-of-fourth-graders]
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