Good news, it infuses this issue with a sense of joy, and with an aspect of carefree childhood seized in flight. There is a feeling of solemnity, but a tender solemnity. An innocence that confronts the world, its difficulties and the trials of study, but it is amusing, happy, and touching. It shows the simplicity of gestures, attitudes and looks. It also shows concentration, astonishment and satisfaction. We hear cries, laughter, and from time to time the chanting of multiplication tables. Finally, no matter what situations these pictures bring to mind, the colors, the ambiance, the digital technique or the simple combination of chalk and blackboard, the spirit is the same. In fact, these images impart the universal human cycle. This cycle is there in action. Without doubt, it is about passing on the most beautiful thing that the animal world possesses in its genes, and that man has learnt to perfect. This transmission suggests future and continuity; a happy principle. Elementary school, the time before selfishness, greed and an indifference for others becomes ingrained, or otherwise invested as a necessity against the competition of others; the ruthless devil of the other. Teaching is sharing in action. Continue reading → (Pierre-François Moreau)
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PRIVATE 56 | School
PRIVATE 56 | School
Matias Costa
Matias Costa | Schools in Mali
In Mali, 85% of women suffer genital mutilation. Nearly 66% leave school early, and one in every five are forced to marry before the age of fifteen. Half of the 13 million souls who inhabit this corner of Africa are under age and only 50% of Malian girls go to school. Continue reading
Gülşin Ketenci
Gülşin Ketenci | Combined Class in Agri
Bozoglak Cavuslu Primary school is located in the Kurdish village of Patnos, Agri. The school has two combined classes and 80 students. Continue reading
Marcello Fauci
Marcello Fauci | Primary school in Khan Younis
Khan Younis is the biggest among the five districts in Gaza, located in the South of the Strip. It includes all Eastern territories bordering with Israel. Continue reading
Edwin Koo
Edwin Koo | Schools in Pakistan
For my personal project ‘Paradise Lost’, I have been photographing the Northwest of Pakistan since 2009, when conflict broke out and drove more than 3 million people from their home in Swat Valley. Continue reading
Wendy McMurdo
Wendy McMurdo | Technology and identity
Her work often explores the role of digital technology in the construction of identity, particularly in relation to the psychological world of children and young people. Continue reading
Gitta van Buuren
Gitta van Buuren | School in Uruzgan
Today it is almost impossible to photograph Afghan schools. Following frequent attacks by the Taliban and other orthodox elements on schools’ students and teachers who are often girls and women, the Ministry of Education no longer gives permission for visits. Continue reading
Mattia Vacca
Mattia Vacca | Primary Education in rural China
Primary and secondary education in China is always free, however students must pay school expenses, for example textbooks and notebooks. Continue reading
Bertrand Gaudillère
Bertrand Gaudillère | A corps et à Craie
‘A Corps et à craie’ is not a school report, it is a memoir of the universe I photographed during a three year period. The project is a personal look at a place of learning where people socialise. Continue reading
Céline Anaya Gautier
Céline Anaya Gautier | Unidad Escolar Patacancha
Situated in the region of CUSCO, in the heights of Ollantaytambo, P[eru, at 4800 meters altitude, the school Unidad Escolar Patacancha welcomes the region’s children. Continue reading
Carlos Alvarez Montero
Carlos Alvarez Montero | The Mexican Railway
More than 20 years ago the Licenciado Adolfo Lopez Mateos railway school carriage reached its final destination in the Valley of Mexico, after years of traveling from town to town as part of the National Railroad of Mexico’s Railroad Repair Team’s Education Program. Continue reading
Alys Tomlinson
Alys Tomlinson | The College on the Hill
Just off a small roundabout in the middle of the English countryside lies New College Worcester. At first glance, it is a regular secondary school and sixth form, set in pleasant, open grounds. It’s only when you look a little more closely that you see signs indicating that this is not a ‘normal’ school. Continue reading
Alessandro Vincenzi
Alessandro Vincenzi | The Hidden School
With the outset of Perestroika and the collapse of the Soviet Union, many former republics faced the task of restructuring and redefining their educational systems. On the 6th of December 1990, in the Belorussian capital Minsk, the first evening classes started in what would become by 1992, the Belarusian Humanities Lyceum. Continue reading
Alvaro Deprit
Alvaro Deprit | Suspension
This work aims to focus on a special moment when past and future lives of the inhabitants of a community ‘house’ are suspended. Continue reading
Alessandro Rota
Alessandro Rota | A Neocolonialist’s Diary
Filled only with preconceived ideas, I felt the need to experience, first hand, the streets of Southern Africa. This decision was influenced by a profound sense of guilt, as I considered the regions exploited by Western societies. Continue reading
Jordi Ruiz Cirera
Jordi Ruiz Cirera | Menonos
During the 1950s, they came to Bolivia from Canada, Mexico or Belize where their lifestyle was being threatened. In Canada the young people weren’t taking the right path and then the government banned their education, forcing their children to attend public schools. Continue reading
PRIVATE 56
School
Photographer(s): Alessandro Rota, Alessandro Vincenzi, Alvaro Deprit, Alys Tomlinson, Bertrand Gaudillère, Carlos Alvarez Montero, Céline Anaya Gautier, Edwin Koo, Gitta van Buuren, Gülşin Ketenci, Jordi Ruiz Cirera, Marcello Fauci, Matias Costa, Mattia Vacca, Wendy McMurdo
Writer(s): Pierre-François Moreau
Tag(s) global issues, PRIVATE 56, school, thematic issues