Sustainability Through Your Own Lens Teacher's guide

Suggested questions for your students

Analysing someone else’s photograph

Find a series of photographs for the students to analyse.

Some guiding questions:

• What is happening in this photo?
• Is it a positive or negative scene? How can you tell?
• Where in the world is this scene happening? How do you know?
• When was this scene captured? Is it recent? What time of year?
• Who do you imagine took this photo? And why?
• What do you think is happening just outside the photo frame?
• What is not being captured in the image (i.e. sounds, emotions, smells etc.)?

Creating a photographic source of their own

Ask your students to consider the following when planning what to enter into the Competition.

1. Planning the photo

• What things are happening around us that tell a story about sustainability?
• What would we to capture on camera to tell this story?
• Would we need to invite anyone to be in the photo? What would we tell them?
• Would we want to capture a positive or a negative story? Explain.
• When should we take the photo? And why?

2. After the photo’s been taken

• In a few sentences, how would you describe the photo? What does sustainability mean according to the scene you have captured?
• What things are happening outside the photo frame?
• What does the image miss?