Sustainability Through Your Own Lens Teacher's guide
Last updated: 16 October 2023
Suggested questions for your students
Analysing someone else’s photograph
Find a series of photographs for the students to analyse.
Some guiding questions:
- What is happening in this photo?
- Is it a positive or negative scene? How can you tell?
- Where in the world is this scene happening? How do you know?
- When was this scene captured? Is it recent? What time of year?
- Who do you imagine took this photo? And why?
- What do you think is happening just outside the photo frame?
- What is not being captured in the image (i.e. sounds, emotions, smells etc.)?
Creating a photographic source of their own
Ask your students to consider the following when planning what to enter into the Competition.
1. Planning the photo
- What things are happening around us that tell a story about sustainability?
- What would we to capture on camera to tell this story?
- Would we need to invite anyone to be in the photo? What would we tell them?
- Would we want to capture a positive or a negative story? Explain.
- When should we take the photo? And why?
2. After the photo’s been taken
- In a few sentences, how would you describe the photo? What does sustainability mean according to the scene you have captured?
- What things are happening outside the photo frame?
- What does the image miss?