(OA)4-9 Digital Photography_Art-Making for Children

  Through the digital photography session, I re-found and confirmed the characteristics of it, which are generally working but maybe particularly working well with younger people who are familiar with taking and sharing photo culture.

  1. easy accessibility and finding one's own taste

  If one has a device, it is very easy to take digital photography. People can simply take, see-check, and delete photos on the device, which was a complicated process with the film. Also, it is a helpful tool to find what one's interests are as what one has collected from the everyday moments are archived and displayed in the album format. Using filters and editing tools in the device let people can modify and manipulate photo-image with their taste. The other functions the online platforms (such as Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, etc.) are also helping people to retouch the images as they prefer. 
This finding-fitting-into-one's taste activity is what art-making can be working. 


  The youngers are more familiar with this process as the device, and online platforms are not new to them. They learn quickly and play with all these sources to network and show their interests.


  2. posting - connecting - referencing

  When images are posted, they are now in the community. Each online platforms have different ways of connecting images (Instagram - using keywords / Pinterest - image similarity, etc.)
Children, who are familiar with these platforms, can think about the image in the wider range. 

can see similar images with
the image one posted

sometimes it leads to
the new way of looking 

3. curating
  Taking photos or posting images online are automatically generating the archived album. This makes people think about the curatorship they hold. Images can be categorized by theme, date, or whatever matters.

the album with images contain red