PHOTOGRAPHER WENDY EWALD

March 2002
		What is the world really like through a child's eyes? Can a camera teach a child the value of self-expression? What is the role of education in art? Acclaimed photographer Wendy Ewald takes your questions on the subject.

Online Special:: Portrait of a Photographer: Wendy Ewald Browse the NewsHour's coverage of Arts and Entertainment	Photographer Wendy Ewald's exhibit "Secret Games" at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., is one of the most tangible results of her 30-year experiment combining the fields of art and education. In the 1970s, as a photography teacher in Kentucky, Ewald urged her students to photograph their families, communities and dreams. She soon realized that such encouragement empowered children to articulate their emotions and their aesthetic vision, as well as giving them a heightened sense of the world around them. This developed into a career of combining photography with education. Wendy Ewald has since worked with children all over the world to break down the boundaries between photographer and subject. She has worked with children in Colombia, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and South Africa, taking her own photographs as well as working with children to help them through their own creative photographic journeys. Throughout, the foundation of Ms. Ewald's work remains constant: exploring the relationship of education to art, and enriching children's lives by empowering them through self-expression. The exhibit travels to the Rhode Island School of Design Museum in June 2002. The photographer Wendy Ewald is taking your questions over the next week. Her answers will be posted here shortly afterward.