Would you like to help?

Maybe you have some old art supplies lying around. A disposable camera you know you'll never use. Maybe even a gas card or something (we can dream, right?).

Would you like to share?

Photo club is opening up our potential modes of inquiry to include processes of writing, drawing, and collecting in addition to photography. To do this, we're looking for:

notebooks and blank journals
backpacks
drawing supplies (charcoal, colored pencils, sharpies, etc.)
disposable cameras
rubber cement
xacto knives

If you'd like to be our lucky "Photo Club Rubber Cement Donor" (or any other donor for that matter!) please send an email to Wendy at wlpetersen51@hotmail.com and she will set you right up!

I Couldn't Live at Home exhibit at MPL

October 6 through December 29, 2007
Minneapolis Central Library

Photographing our own neighborhoods as well as others, photo clubbers meditated on what home means to them, what it means to others, and how our ideas of place intermingle and collide with each other. Some of our photos captured these ideas. A few made it into this here show at the central library. A nice space to see what other artists and groups have come up with, with home on the mind. Pictured are some of the kids taking themselves extremely seriously at their opening.

Going Inward

This week we did a shoot at Skyline - we have been all over the map this summer, and for our last offical session of PhotoClub 07, we went inward. Here are just a few photographs the kids took inside one place they have called home. Stay tuned for more info on where you can see more of the PhotoClub's work this fall.

Home Sweet Home

This week photoclub came over to my home sweet home. Here are some pics from around the hood.

A Hard Day

On Wednesday the PhotoClub was on a feildtrip to the Stone Arch Bridge when the 35W bridge collapsed just down river from where we stood. We are all a bit shaken by how close we were to the tragedy - but thankful that we are all safe. Here are some images from a day we will not soon forget.

The Neighborhood, by Abdul

This is the neighborhood around Skyline Tower, courtesy of Abdul. We took a walking tour this week, our brave photographers enduring 97 degree heat to take a look at their surroundings. I thought Abdul's images were particularly fantastic - so I decided to highlight Abdul's work alone this week (although there were so many other great images taken by the others). I don't have much to say this week, only so much to show you... Skyline Tower is the white building seen in the next picture. Chances are, you've driven by a thousand times.

Harriet Island

This week photoclub went to Harriet Island in St. Paul to look at the beautiful skyline views and the house boats! Soon after we arrived Keria asked 'Why does it always rain when we go to photoclub?' Good question!!! We took cover under a footbridge near by and Wendy showed us some pictures taken in the frogtown neighborhood. After reviewing last week's lesson the rain let up, and we set off to take some pictures of our own. Did I mention that the Star Trib came along to snap some pictures of US? They are doing a story on photoclub!

Hamdi and Aisha took this great picture of the cathedral. Do you see how it is perfectly framed underneath the tree?

Our soggy day at Harriet Island ended with a lesson on the Riverboat Grill. We had chicken fingers out on the deck and discussed the artwork of Robert Polidori. In his most recent work called 'After the Flood', he took photographs of houses in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. We looked at this work and discussed the plight of the New Orleans refugees, displaced by the same river we floated on. Why is it important to look at these photographs I asked the PhotoClub? Hamdi said it best: 'to care'. Here are a few more great pictures taken by the PhotoClub last week: