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About Me is an after-school project of the Family Resource Centre (FRC), St Michael's Estate which has its focus firmly on photography.
This photography programme, run by photographer Darragh Shanahan, began in the summer of 2005. Since then children aged between five and 12 years of age have explored and responded to their immediate locality through the medium of photography. In May 2006, an exhibition of their work, 'Stick Stories', took place in the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA). The programme continued throughout 2007. In collaboration with Suas - the educational wing of Concern, the development organisation - children on the programme exchanged photographs with children from India and Kenya. In September 2007 the group began a new phase of the programme entitled 'Craft a Frame'. In this phase, Darragh's aim was to get the children to hone their photographic skills by creating a studio environment for them to work in. As part of this, they composed their own portraits and those of other children in the group. They then went on to create their own frames for these in a further craft session. In November 2008, in collaboration with other community groups in St Michael's Estate, the children displayed a selection of work they had been creating since 2005 in the exhibition 'Tales from the Promised Land'. The group resumed their work with photographer Darragh Shanahan in January 2009. |



