Photo Camp at FotoWeek DC

The National Geographic Photo Camp exhibit showcases youths’ perspectives on the 2008 Photo Camp overarching theme of conservation, the environment and connecting to the landscape. As a domestic and international program, National Geographic Photo Camp’s exhibit will include work from Bronx, New York; Santa Monica, California; Port Isobel and Tangier Islands on the Chesapeake Bay; Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota; Earth University in Costa Rica; the Appalachian Trail in Virginia; Taos, New Mexico; Vinalhaven and North Haven Islands, Maine.

The exhibition was in coordination with FotoWeek DC. About 100 people visited the gallery at the opening reception on November 15th. The exhibit ends on November 22nd.

Special thanks to Archival Arts Services for their generous donation of framing materials for the exhibit.

(Photo by Lindsay McCullough)

Photo Camp at Pop!Tech

For the third year Photo Camp has attended and photographed the innovative conference Pop!Tech. This year, four students from the Maine Islands Photo Camp traveled to the mainland with the staff of the camp. The students photographed presenters and performers, as well as, the scene of the conference in Camden, Maine. The photographs made at the conference were printed by Maine Media Workshops and placed on display at the closing gala at the Owl’s Head Transportation Museum.

[Photo by Brittany C. | Pop!Tech/Maine Islands Photo Camp 2008]

Maine Islands Photo Camp

The Maine Islands Photo Camp spent three days on Vinalhaven and North Haven Islands, 12 miles off the coast of Maine. 20 students documented the working waterfront and landscape of the two islands that has shaped life and culture there.

[Photo by Morgan Y. | Maine Islands Photo Camp 2008]

Photo Camp in Taos, New Mexico

Last month we worked with Taos high schools students to document the Taos Pueblo Indians, as well as the area’s agriculture, architecture and landscape.

[Photo by Winona W. | Taos Photo Camp 2008]