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OJOS nuevos - Pentax Street Photography Assignment With the OJOS nuevos students and their Pentax cameras, Lindy took the girls on weekly field trips outside of the hogar to shoot on Santiago's streets. Article rating: 10.00

Once the kids warmed up to the cameras and understood how the bells and whistles worked, we took day trips all over Santiago.  We photographed by bus, metro, and motorcycle.  We climbed hills, scaled walls, and crawled through crevices.  We held the cameras right side up, upside down, balanced them, traded them, dropped them, and lost them.  Shooting on the street was a balancing act between finding interesting things to document, stretching their imaginations to think of new ways to photograph, and learning how to take care of the equipment that they were loaned.

A quiet but colorful street in spring around the corner from the hogar in Casas Viejas. © 2007 Monica

 

Baking bread in clay ovens. © 2007 Agatha

COLO COLO logos are painted all over Santiago’s streets, showing loyalty to Chile’s most popular soccer team. © 2007 Katiuska

A typical Chilean license plate. © 2007 Tami

La Pequeña Gigante, the Little Giant Girl, a larger than life puppet who visited from France to walk the streets among the crowds of people who came out to see her. © 2007 Monica

 Chilean policemen, known as Carabineros, are among the most reasonable and respected police compared to other South American countries. © 2007 Katiuska

 

 A juice vendor selling mote con huesillo, a typical Chilean drink made of wheat and sun-dried peaches soaked in sugar water. © 2007 Agatha

 

 Monica found the Charlie’s Angels of Chile and invited them to have their picture taken. © 2007 Monica

 

 Newsstand vendor. © 2007 Tami

 

 Typical marketing on the street advertising prices in Chilean pesos.  The exchange rate is about 518 pesos to the American dollar. © 2007 Agatha

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