Visit to the Grundy Art Gallery's exhibition, Mass Photography: Blackpool through the Camera. The groups studied all the photographs of Blackpool, looking at images from archives and by famous photographers. 
The groups then visited Tony Sharkey in the Local and Family History Centre at the Central Library to see some peculiar images of people and events from Blackpool's past.
The groups then took their black and white film cameras on a walk around Blackpool, taking photographs of Blackpool, using techniques they had spotted in the exhibition.
They quickly learnt the difference between digital photography (which they are used to) and using film cameras with only 24 chances to get that perfect shot!
Photomobile, the travelling photography centre brought the dark room experience to both schools in November and eraly December to develop the photographs taken by the children on their walking tour of Blackpool Promenade.
Jason from Photomobile taught groups about newspaper layouts and using a digital camera. They then created their own page.
David was inside the Photomobile demonstrating how to take a photo from it's negative and develop it as an enlarged photograph. This was the science bit, which got a lot of wows and ooohs. All the children got to help develop a photo and learn all the techniques.
Back in the school the rest of the class were busy using small versions of their photographs to create a newspaper, complete with news stories about Blackpool, weather forecast, sports results, house and cars for sale, births, deaths and marraiges. They are a great read!
These are the contact sheets from a roll of film. The developed photographs will be exhibited in the schools exhibition at the Grundy Art Gallery from the 28th of Jan to the 3rd March. Come and have a look.
