Face to Face was a lovely intergenerational project in collaboration with High Life Highland’s Black Isle Youth Development Group. Pupils from Fortrose Academy’s Learning Support Department attended photography sessions with our Studio Manager and visual artist, John McNaught. John taught the young people both digital and film photography, with the theme of the learning being portraiture. The participants learnt techniques including composition, film processing, scanning and editing on ‘Lightroom’ digital software.
For those of us of a certain age, who are well familiar with film photography, one of the most memorable points in this project was the reaction of the young people when the roll of negatives came off the sprocket. It might as well have been magic!
![FF-Table Child on table holding camera film](https://highlandprintstudio.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/FF-Table-150x150.jpg)
![FF-2 Teacher and student holding camera film](https://highlandprintstudio.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/FF-2-150x150.jpg)
![FF3 Student holding camera with teach looking over](https://highlandprintstudio.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/FF3-150x150.jpg)
Once the participants had practiced by taking photographs of each other, they then took portraits of the older people who attended D-Caff, the local dementia café where the young people worked as volunteers. Here are some very nice portraits. Well done folks.
![Adam-2 Girl smiling - Black and white photo](https://highlandprintstudio.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Adam-2-150x150.jpg)
![L1018383-scaled Boy looking into the camera - Black and white photo](https://highlandprintstudio.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/L1018383-scaled-1-150x150.jpg)
![Adam-3-scaled Girl looking over shoulder - Black and white photo](https://highlandprintstudio.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Adam-3-scaled-1-150x150.jpg)
![Row3image1 Girl by the River - Black and white image](https://highlandprintstudio.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Row3image1-150x150.jpg)
![Row3image2 Child in room - Black and white photo](https://highlandprintstudio.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Row3image2-150x150.jpg)
![Row3image3 Woman hugging a tree - Black and white photo](https://highlandprintstudio.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Row3image3-150x150.jpg)
![Row4image1 Kid in hoodie - Black and white photo](https://highlandprintstudio.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Row4image1-150x150.jpg)
![Row4image2 Child next to a tree - Black and white photo](https://highlandprintstudio.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Row4image2-150x150.jpg)
![Row4image3 Child on a bridge - Black and white photo](https://highlandprintstudio.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Row4image3-150x150.jpg)
![Row5image1 Student looking out the window - Black and white photo](https://highlandprintstudio.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Row5image1-150x150.jpg)
![Row5image2 Child leaning against a wall - Black and white photo](https://highlandprintstudio.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Row5image2-150x150.jpg)
![Row5image3 Child on the bridge - Black and white photo](https://highlandprintstudio.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Row5image3-150x150.jpg)
![Row6image1 Elder man wearing glasses](https://highlandprintstudio.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Row6image1-150x150.jpg)
![Row6image2 Elder lady wearing glasses](https://highlandprintstudio.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Row6image2-150x150.jpg)
![Row6image3 Elder couple in the doorway](https://highlandprintstudio.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Row6image3-150x150.jpg)
![Row7image1 Elderly Lady](https://highlandprintstudio.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Row7image1-150x150.jpg)
![Row7image2 Elderly couple](https://highlandprintstudio.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Row7image2-150x150.jpg)
![Row7image3 Group of people](https://highlandprintstudio.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Row7image3-150x150.jpg)