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If These Walls Could Talk: A Photography Workshop For Single-Parent Families

May 4th, 2018 | Children and Young People, Events, Family and Divorce, News

This workshop is now closed. Thank you for your interest!

If you could tell the story of your home through a photograph, what would you capture? 

Stories of single parents – their families and homes – are often told to them. National housing policies, news reports, and society’s labels decide how these homes should look like, and have the power to shape how others see and think of single parents.

But what stories will emerge when we get single-parent families themselves behind the camera?

We invite those from single-parent families to join us for a free two-session photography workshop to capture the stories of your homes, in ways only you can. At this workshop, you will:

  • Pick up technical tips and tricks from a professional photographer
  • Learn how to write a powerful photo essay and share your own personal story in a creative way
  • Meet and share common experiences with others from single-parent families
  • Contribute your voice to the national conversation about support for single parents.

A public exhibition for selected photographs will be held in August 2018. Final works will be chosen based on quality of the image and the photo essay’s connection to the theme of the exhibition. Limited slots available, so sign up soon!

Date: 2 June (Saturday) and 9 June (Saturday)
Time: 10am – 12.30pm
Venue:
2 June: AWARE Centre (5 Dover Crescent #01-22 Singapore 130005)
9 June: Singapore Council of Women’s Organisation Training Room 1 (96 Waterloo Street, 187967)
Theme: “This is my home”
What to bring: Your digital camera or mobile phone with a good camera function; writing materials
Participants: Single parents and children of single parents (>10 years old)

Workshop requirements

  • You are/were from a single-parent family (i.e. single parent, or child of a single parent)
  • You have a working digital camera OR mobile device with a good camera
  • You can attend both sessions
  • You are open to producing a photo and accompanying short essay for a public exhibition

Register here!

Lunch will be provided after each session. Volunteer child-minders will be present. If you are bringing your child along, please write to Nabilah at media@aware.org.sg by 28 May. 
About the facilitator
Nurul Huda is an educator, writer, and image-maker. Lecturing in different subjects across Anthropology, Liberal and Visual Arts, she commutes across different classrooms with a love for facilitation and performance. She is also a researcher whose interests focus on issues concerning the visual and sentient body, visual imagery and methodologies, narratives (text and the telling), and feminism. She received both her BA and MA in Anthropology from the National University of Singapore and has since been teaching in several universities in subjects such as Anthropology, Liberal Arts, and Visual Studies.