The boys at work
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Private lesson
Today some of the boys got a private lesson from me. They had lots of fun with it and laughted their heads off at the end of each lesson. It is nice to see that they have such a good time with photography. I`ve uploaded you some of my impressions as well as some of the photos of the young artists. Have fun with it!
The boys at work
The boys at work
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Happy new year from Georg
Devamitta said about everything I wanted to say.
I`m very happy to be here and I have lots of fun with the „Photo Kids“!
Ariyadhamma is a very interested and helpful assistant and Devamitta a generous and very helpful host. He is like a father for this project.
The days go by very quickly and we only have two weeks left. But with the intensity and passion the boys work and enjoy photography I`m sure we will get a good base for some of them.
Many of you supported us already and made all this possible. We were able to get seven cameras and more than 1000 Euros. That is incredibly motivating and impressing for me. Especially because I know under what circumstances some of you enabled that support.
About ten of the boys (we are still hoping that some girls will join) come regularly to the meetings and one can see them to any given time with their cameras ready to “shoot”. Unfortunatelly not all of them got a camera yet. So I hope soon all of them will have the possibility to have one handy at any time. I would appreciate if all of you could continue to look out for cameras and financial support so we can make that possible for them.
The project is supposed to change from a four-week-crash-course to a long term project. I hope we will be able to make that happen with your support.
The following picture I put together out of pictures the young photographers took especially for you. In particular for the ones who supported us with cameras and financially.
Lots of thanks also from me!!
I wish you all a wonderful year 2009!
Georg
Dear friends,
I`m very happy to be here and I have lots of fun with the „Photo Kids“!
Ariyadhamma is a very interested and helpful assistant and Devamitta a generous and very helpful host. He is like a father for this project.
The days go by very quickly and we only have two weeks left. But with the intensity and passion the boys work and enjoy photography I`m sure we will get a good base for some of them.
Many of you supported us already and made all this possible. We were able to get seven cameras and more than 1000 Euros. That is incredibly motivating and impressing for me. Especially because I know under what circumstances some of you enabled that support.
About ten of the boys (we are still hoping that some girls will join) come regularly to the meetings and one can see them to any given time with their cameras ready to “shoot”. Unfortunatelly not all of them got a camera yet. So I hope soon all of them will have the possibility to have one handy at any time. I would appreciate if all of you could continue to look out for cameras and financial support so we can make that possible for them.
The project is supposed to change from a four-week-crash-course to a long term project. I hope we will be able to make that happen with your support.
The following picture I put together out of pictures the young photographers took especially for you. In particular for the ones who supported us with cameras and financially.
Lots of thanks also from me!!
I wish you all a wonderful year 2009!
Georg
Dear friends,
Happy new year from Devamitta
Dear Friends and Supporters of the Telwatta Photo Kids.
Hereby I wish to thank you all for your support of the project which is run here by Mr. Georg Höfer for the benefit of our kids.
The boys here are so enthusiastic and happy with the “Photo Kids” program and they are learning so much during this period.
Personally I not only enjoy seeing them having so much fun together, which is not happening so much in their daily live, I also see that the program is having the result I hoped for: they start to look different at each other and their surroundings, they see pictures and beauty everywhere! This will make a big difference for their future; they are looking different at their lifes.
The aim we had: to stimulate their artistic characteristics, to stimulate their creativity and to make them work together will be surely reached!
I must say that a great part of this is thanks to the inspiring teaching of Georg and his handling of the group! He is doing this in such a way that I think that if he worked with my pupil the Rev. Ariyadhamma before that he might have become a photographer instead of a monk! He surely “infected” him with the “photography virus”, especially the passion of Georg for night photography has been transferred to the
Rev. Ariyadhamma! And because of Georg’s passion for photography and his way of working and teaching the boys here my admiration for him has grown every day!
Dear friends (if I may call you all so?), I want to thank you all for your support for this project. It makes the end of this year so valuable for the boys and me personally! It gives me good prospects and hope for the coming year. Normally we are so busy to try and help those who suffer that it is a wonderful way to end this, and start the next year with such a creative, educational and “fun” program!
Thank you very much! Thank you Georg!
I hope you will continue to support this program and I end this letter with the wish that;
You all May be Healthy, Happy and Safe in this New Year!
Yours sincerely:
Holland Sri Devamitta Maha Thera
Metta Ashrama
Telwatta – Sri Lanka.
Hereby I wish to thank you all for your support of the project which is run here by Mr. Georg Höfer for the benefit of our kids.
The boys here are so enthusiastic and happy with the “Photo Kids” program and they are learning so much during this period.
Personally I not only enjoy seeing them having so much fun together, which is not happening so much in their daily live, I also see that the program is having the result I hoped for: they start to look different at each other and their surroundings, they see pictures and beauty everywhere! This will make a big difference for their future; they are looking different at their lifes.
The aim we had: to stimulate their artistic characteristics, to stimulate their creativity and to make them work together will be surely reached!
I must say that a great part of this is thanks to the inspiring teaching of Georg and his handling of the group! He is doing this in such a way that I think that if he worked with my pupil the Rev. Ariyadhamma before that he might have become a photographer instead of a monk! He surely “infected” him with the “photography virus”, especially the passion of Georg for night photography has been transferred to the
Rev. Ariyadhamma! And because of Georg’s passion for photography and his way of working and teaching the boys here my admiration for him has grown every day!
Dear friends (if I may call you all so?), I want to thank you all for your support for this project. It makes the end of this year so valuable for the boys and me personally! It gives me good prospects and hope for the coming year. Normally we are so busy to try and help those who suffer that it is a wonderful way to end this, and start the next year with such a creative, educational and “fun” program!
Thank you very much! Thank you Georg!
I hope you will continue to support this program and I end this letter with the wish that;
You all May be Healthy, Happy and Safe in this New Year!
Yours sincerely:
Holland Sri Devamitta Maha Thera
Metta Ashrama
Telwatta – Sri Lanka.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Listen and learn..!
The following photos were taken by one photographer, Nipuna. He took the challenge I gave them two days ago very seriously: I wanted them to take at least ten photographs of each person from different points of view and distances.
There are festivities in the local temple at the moment and some of the boys are active there so only one of them did what I expected.
Before the boys only took one or at the most two pictures per person. Here you can see that the photographer told his model what to do and how to act. That way a snap shot becomes a photograph in which the photographer becomes the director.
There are festivities in the local temple at the moment and some of the boys are active there so only one of them did what I expected.
Before the boys only took one or at the most two pictures per person. Here you can see that the photographer told his model what to do and how to act. That way a snap shot becomes a photograph in which the photographer becomes the director.
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