South Philadelphia High School

Spring 2013
Classroom Teacher: Barbara Keating
Teaching-Artist: Ariel Kuh

Students engaged in a visual dialogue with documentary photographs commissioned by the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression, to explore concepts of history, narrative and self-portraiture. Students collaged and inserted images of themselves and their environment into the source photographs, using physical gesture, expression and other kinds of visual manipulation to change the meaning and mood of these photographs.