These Young Students Learned Photography And Gained Community During The Pandemic

At Bellaire High School, in fall 2020, photographer and educator Rebecca Kiger had her students list questions for themselves that would become the basis for their personal photography projects.

Jessica Rosen, a junior at the Ohio school, wrote: "Do you want to grow up the way you were raised?"

She ended up making a book of pictures of her family, which "is about how everything is different now than when I was younger."

For the past year, students around the country have adapted to remote classes, but not every student has been encouraged to process their emotions within the "new normal." But that's exactly what 19 students from four youth photography classes around the country did. While learning photographic technical skills, they were also encouraged to focus on personal projects, prompts and missions in order to