I haven't photographed students in classrooms for more than 20 years, but I still miss it.
Actually, photographing school activities was how I got my start in photography. In 1969, I was a teacher at a private school in Miami and was assigned the job of yearbook advisor. Partly because of my new-found enthusiasm for photography, and partly because none of the students on the yearbook staff seemed interested in doing it, I wound up photographing the full gamut of school activities, from sports to classrooms. I realized I liked photography better than teaching and began to think about a career change.
It took a while, but on January 1, 1978 I began my own business as a full-time photographer, taking on what ever work I could get. Some of it, fortunately, was for schools and colleges. In the 1980s and '90s I hoped to make photography for education a substantial part of my business, and although I did a lot of work in that area it never developed to the extent that I had hoped.
But still -- photographing in schools was always interesting and always enjoyable, and I'm grateful for the experiences I had.
The Foundation for Public Education chose the above photograph and another one from the same set to be made into 40x60-inch prints which hung in their offices for many years.
(Photograph made in December, 2001 with a Canon EOS A2 camera, Canon 80-200mm f2.8L lens (sometime called "the Magic Drainpipe"), and Fujichrome film.)
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