Martin Parr is a British photographer who likes to document society, consumerism, family, relationships and food. His work often explores 'Britishness'.
You could look at his work as the starting point for a photography or documentary project on their life at home, living in their town or even where they go on holiday.
Ask them to cast a critical eye over the things they eat, buy, do for fun and what they do on holiday. Encourage them to take photographs and draw the ordinary scenes around them, paying particular attention to the typical and ordinary objects and things, like Matirn Parr has done in the photograph above. They can collect 'stuff' from their world and eventually all this can be collated into a journal of their life and experiences.
A nice idea is to swap these journals with another school from a different country or from another part of the UK, to learn about their lives and experiences.
You could look at his work as the starting point for a photography or documentary project on their life at home, living in their town or even where they go on holiday.
Ask them to cast a critical eye over the things they eat, buy, do for fun and what they do on holiday. Encourage them to take photographs and draw the ordinary scenes around them, paying particular attention to the typical and ordinary objects and things, like Matirn Parr has done in the photograph above. They can collect 'stuff' from their world and eventually all this can be collated into a journal of their life and experiences.
A nice idea is to swap these journals with another school from a different country or from another part of the UK, to learn about their lives and experiences.
