148 pages
A4
ISBN-10: 0 7287 0699 7
ISBN-13: 978 0 7287 0699 6

Picture My World demonstrates practical ways of using photography right across the primary curriculum and argues the importance of a broadly based approach to developing visual literacy.

It brings together an exciting range of ideas, activities and images placing the child at the centre of their learning experience. Much of the work pushes the boundaries of the photographic medium itself; presenting photosculpture, drama-based shadow pictures, digital images and multimedia projects. It also explores basic darkroom techniques and a wealth of activities which look at non-darkroom based projects.

This book highlights the work of photographers and artists, and those working in gallery and community education, who with teachers, have helped to develop some of the most challenging and exciting ways of using photography in education. It presents work by children who have made both eloquent and vivid images of real and imagined worlds.

We look to the children and young people whose work informs this book for a new generation of artists and audiences.