Diana Nazareth

The Artful Me Selfie Photo Project
– Photography workshop

The eye of the camera looks out into the world, but self-portraiture is a mirror that turns the lens back around onto oneself. Young people are no strangers to selfies, but a DSLR camera can sometimes be an inaccessible foreign object. Diana Nazareth will be hosting online and in-person photography workshops for kids aged 9 to 14, encouraging them to think outside the box to take self-portraits without showing their faces, while incorporating elements of their identity, culture, and interests. The images will be displayed at Toronto Public Library’s Scarborough Civic Centre Branch branch and in an online exhibition during the Ontario Culture Days festival.

Artist’s bio:
Diana Nazareth is a photographer and teacher, and founder of Project Kids and Cameras -a social enterprise whose mission it is to encourage youth to explore their voices through photography, visual thinking, community-building and social action.

We acknowledge that Culture Days @ The Library is supported by the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario, and the Toronto Arts Council with funding from the City of Toronto.