This semester, photography teacher Christine Warner is reigniting an environmental awareness project for her Photography I, II, III and IV classes. Students will select an environmental concern around the St. Louis area to bring attention to.
“We’re going to be formatting the results in both an art gallery exhibition in March and here in the Spirtas Art Gallery, and then we’re also going to be setting up in the teleconference room or in the theater where they can have an authentic audience to come see their results of the photographs, photographic photo stories [and] photo essays,” Warner said.
The initiative was introduced in 2021 and was originally a coordinated effort between photography and AP Environmental Science students. This year, photography students will work with their classmates in groups.
“We’ve done this project before in collaboration with the AP Environmental Science class, which is where I got that idea,” Warner said. “[This semester], my students are going to synthesize all that together and within their groups, come up with that impact statement and influential photographs that might help to either change people’s minds or influence them to do good for the environment,” Warner said.
![In the Spanish hallway, students made decorations that represent the celebration for the Day of the Dead. Each box was personally made by a student for a celebrity or a loved one that passed away. "[And for] each of their boxes, they needed to have pictures and items that loved one enjoyed," DeLia said.](https://laduepublications.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/IMG_0856-1200x900.jpg)
