Showing posts with label pictures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pictures. Show all posts

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Behind-the-scenes at "L'école des enfants du village de l'Avenir"


The kids drawing what they will become when they grow up / Les enfants en train de dessiner ce qu'ils feront quand il seront grand



The entire classroom listening to a song by one of the kids who wants to be a singer when he grow up.

La classe en train d'écouter un des élèves chanter. Il veut devenir chanteur quand il sera grand.


Helena Harper talking to the kids about their future and how to get there.

Helena Harper en train de parler aux enfants de leurs future et du chemin qu'il faut suivre pour y arriver


Sébastien Roche-Lochen taking pictures of the kids in costumes

Sébastien Roche-Lochen en train de prendre les portraits des enfants déguisés


The kids waiting outside of the classroom while we were printing their pictures

Les enfants en train d'attendre en dehors de la classe pendant que nous imprimions leurs photos.



All the kids in the classroom holding their print

Tous les enfants de la classe avec leurs photos dans la main





Photography by Helena Harper and Sébastien Roche-Lochen

Our day at "l'école des enfants du village de l'Avenir" was filled with laughters. These kids had so much energy were almost too full of life. They wanted more prints to be able to get a picture of their friends together but we had not brought enough printing paper on this trip because we were working on a tight budget. When they had to wait outside of the classroom for us to print all the pictures, they were so eager to get their prints that we had to block the door to the room with a small table to keep them out. In the end everyone was very happy when we gave them the prints and the smiles on their face says it all.

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Les rires des enfants de l'école des enfants du village résonnent encore dans nos tètes. Ces enfants avaient tellement d'énergies qu'ils en avaient mème peut ètre un peu trop. Ils voulaient plus qu'une photo pour pouvoir avoir des photos d'eux et de leurs amis mais comme nous somme partis avec un petit budget, nous n'avions pas assez de papier photo. Quand il ont dû attendre dans la cour de récréation pendant que nous imprimions leurs photos, ils étaient tellement impatients que nous avons bloqué la porte d'entrée de la classe avec une table pour les empêcher de rentrer. A la fin de la journée tout le monde était content quand nous leur avons donné leurs photos et le sourire sur leurs visages en est la preuve.


Don't forget to take a peek at our Amazon wishlist, every costume or item you donate will give the next kids we will visit more choices and possibilities to envision their future.

N'oubliez pas de visiter notre wishlist sur Amazon. Tous les costumes et jouets que vous achèterez donneront aux enfants plus de choix et de possibilités d'imaginer leur future.

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Haiti Day #3: Our first Girls orphanage in Port-au-prince


On our third day in Haiti, the pastor who had welcomed us in his orphanage the day before took us to a girls' orphanage in a secluded part of port-au-prince. He even offered to take us to another orphanage right after we were done with our session but after taking pictures of almost 50 young girls, we were too exhausted to even consider it. All the kids were incredible from the moment we walked through the orphanage's gate to the moment we left.

Friday, September 2, 2011

Haiti Day #2: Behind-the-Scene Photos




Photography: Helena Harper

Here are some of the pictures taken during our day of shooting in the first orphanage. The kids were so happy to draw, some were very talented artists too. Their reaction when they received their print exceeded our expectations. They were all laughing and running around with their pictures in their hands.

Monday, August 29, 2011

Haiti Day #2: Our first trip to an orphanage

Our trip in Haiti is starting out great! Yesterday, the driver we hired ended up taking us to an orphanage that his pastor is in charge of. There were more than 60 kids who made beautiful drawings for us and picked very interesting careers from Construction workers to arborists. The kid actually taught me that word because I had no idea what an arborist was!

Here's the group picture of all the kids holding their print at the end of the day.

Photo by Helena Harper

Monday, August 1, 2011

Amazon Wishlist



I created a wishlist today because we will always be looking for costumes to add to our collection. We will need costumes for short kids, big kids, futures chefs, police officers, firefighters, surfers, soccer players, lawyers...and everything else you can think of.

Take a look at our wishlist, any help will be appreciated,

Friday, March 4, 2011

First Framed Pictures

Today we received our box of photo paper to start printing our pictures and give the first frames to the wonderful kids we have already shot. We also recently received an incredible donations of kid costumes with military, police and firefighter uniforms, a doctor outfit, haprons and tons of fun props that the kids can play with and use during the shoot. Lastly, we received new lenses and have been contacted by many parent to shoot in the upcoming weeks.



Photo by Sebastien Roche-Lochen