Photography workshops

In all over 60 children took part in the photography workshops and took their own photos. The aim of the workshops was to give children and adolescents the opportunity to use a camera to capture their everyday lives and reflect on issues they care about through their own photographs.

The Eye to Eye with child labour workshops took place in a total of five separate locations – one in Pakistan, two in Bolivia and two in India.

The working children involved in the Eye to Eye workshops were free to shoot whichever pictures they liked. The resulting photographs are not contrived by outsiders, but offer a picture of their daily life as they see and experience it. Many of the pictures were given captions by the children and you can see some of these in the different albums in this section of the site.

As well as more immediate aspects such as family, friends, home and work, they considered their place in the community, the roles of boys and girls and issues that affect them in wider society. This helped them reflect on their own life – the things they value, the things they want to change, and the aspirations they have for the future.

Although the overall methodology used was the same in each, some variations occurred due to different locations – rural, semi-urban and urban – and to the different cultural contexts. Save the Children worked with local partners who are trying to protect the rights of working children in their respective areas.

To find out more about the locations in which the children live, what life is like and Save the Children’s response is to child labour, use the information and downloads in the Our response section.