Update from ‘A Wave Of Words’ – we are online!

The scans are in and we are online. This means that the book is only moments away, or so we hope. This all took longer than expected, but we had no funding for this project and needed have patience to make this work. Slowly but surely ‘A Wave Of Words’ is coming to its completion.

The project is a collaborative effort of Steve Lynch, English Teacher at the Urban Assembly New York Harbor School, the Peace Corps Fellows Program through Teachers College at Columbia University, and myself, Skye von der Osten. This photographic and writing project was conceived as a means of exploring how image and words inform each other to create more powerful statements as well as to provide voice and visibility to students from populations often overlooked in mainstream media.

The 90 students enrolled in sophomore English at New York Harbor School went through a multi-week process of having their portrait taken by me, choosing their strongest image, and then writing a poetic text that establishes a strong sense of self and place in their world. After practicing on smaller versions of their portraits, the students then committed their words to larger prints of their portraits using permanent markers. Additionally, the collection of all the student work will be published in a small book of poetry to be available for purchase online.

 

Please visit my website to see the other portraits and sign-up for my newsletter to be informed when the book is available for purchase.

http://www.skyevonderosten.com/#/a-wave-of-words/wow-85

 

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