Photographic Re-Imagining of the Familial Portrait

This lesson plan is part of the Resource Guide Connecting Through Time: Intergenerational & Family Storytelling, a Photoville and PhotoWings collaboration developed at the onset of COVID-19 to support intergenerational storytelling through photography.nnStudents re-imagine an archival photo either from their family, community, or within history. They use the work of Willow Naomi Curry and Tiffany Smith's project The Fourth Ward Photo Parlour, and Lebohang Kganye's Ke Lefa Laka: Her Story, as mentor artists to see how re-photography is a way to connect to the past. They read their personal photograph through a set of literacy exercises and assess how they want to depict themselves in their recreations.nnOnce finished with their project, students might extend the process to their home space and find ways of understanding the role of historical studio photography in their own community and within their personal identities.nnAuthor: Kamal Badhey u00b7 Materials: camera, elements from the archival photograph, light source u00b7 Age range: middle and high school.

• Read a personal photograph through a set of literacy exercises
• Assess how to depict oneself in a recreation of an archival image
• Understand the role of historical studio photography within personal identity