We’re so excited to share the six projects that our spring mentees were able to accomplish during our 12 week mentorship program.
1. March Food Distribution
At the food distribution our mentees was designated different roles some did photography and some took part in the food distribution. This was a good way for them to learn how to tell a story through photography.
2. Peace Garden
We joined Maywood’s annual community clean-up event by going to the Peace Garden led by Barbara Cole. We got to capture some behind the scenes of the community as they worked together to beautify the garden. We are excited for a possible future collaboration on redesigning the mural, we look forward to deepening our connect and our relationship with Barbara Cole.
3. Mariah's Website
Each mentee had a role in building Mariah’s website between capturing pictures for her website and modeling for her. This was truly a collaborative effort between the mentees which allowed them to show off their personal creative sides.
4. Amanda's website
For Amanda’s project we split up the mentees into two groups. One group took lay flats of her work while the other group took part in taking the lifestyle pictures of Amanda in the environment they created for the pictures. It was so neat to see them have complete creative control over taking photo content.
5. Mariah's scholarship video
In the fall Mariah will be studying to become an esthetician/make-up artist and she had a scholarship opportunity that would help with her tuition. For this project Jeremy Lopez and the mentees got together to help Mariah with her scholarship opportunity that required a video submission. This was an opportunity to teach them the three parts of making a good film: pre-production, production, and post production. While they weren’t able to do post-production together, the mentees did get to write the script and were able to film the project. We are excited to share that Mariah was selected for the scholarship! Yay we’re so proud of Mariah and what’s to come for her.
6. These are our stories campaign
Our mentees hosted a photo campaign where they got to photograph and share the stories of their peers. Mariah provides make-up services that day as well. Check out their stories below!
