In January, 2002, The AjA Project team member and Fulbright Scholar, Alex Fattal began photography classes with the fifth grade students from the informal, communally administered, Corporación Fe y Esperanza in El Progreso, Soacha. After a month of training Alex assigned the students to photograph the themes of, memory, future, family and fear. The participants learned to enlarge with the help of students from Universidad de los Andes. Fe y Esperanza founder and director, Nelson Pájaro and Alex sat down with each student and taped the child speaking about his or her photograph. The kids then wrote excerpts from their narratives in white on the black wood frame surrounding their photograph. The exhibit continues to travel Colombia, and the United States. DCP, now guided by a local team of Colombian photographers, educators, and academics, DCP continues to teach the original participants while leading workshops around the country with marginalized children.

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