THROUGH THEIR EYES | TESTIMONIALS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “In my community, I see that not so many homeless people live there, but the homeless people I do see live without food and in abandoned houses. My dream would be for people to truly experience how the homeless live, so that they would know what it’s like to be homeless. “The reason why I wanted to be involved in this was so people could know my story and how homeless people live. I think I achieved letting people know homeless people so they can help them.” “I feel the community was shocked about what they saw because they never know what really happened.” -Jeremy Murphy Junior at Southside H.S. “My goal in taking these pictures is to show that what the media displays is not what really happens in society.” “When people came and saw our work they were so amazed and stunned that such young kids want to make a difference in their community. I feel as if I have made a good and positive message to the youth and all the people that read my story and took a glance at my pictures.” “It felt really, really good to have my pictures in a gallery. It made me feel very special.” “This helped me creatively a lot. It really has me thinking if I want to go to the army or got o college and major in photography.” -Geraldine Brown Junior at Fredrick Douglass H.S “The students were definitely effected in a positive way, before the gallery, they were unaware as to how many people cared about their stories. Over all it was a very positive event that made a huge impact on the students.” -Allison Hungate Operations for Essential2Life “I feel I achieved telling my story, the true story about Bankhead Courts, a fact not an opinion.” “The Gallery made me feel Good, My heart got higher.” -Darius Snow Douglass High School “Through this project I feel I have become a better man and that there’s a stronger bond that I have with everyone in the program.” -Devon Goode Southside High School “When I first started the project I was like O, OK it is just another project, but when I got there I was amazed and surprised and very very happy that I actually finished a project and got to see my work on display and was able to explain to people what goes and what they don’t know about my neighborhood and school.” “When I was explaining my story to the hundreds of people that showed up, I didn’t feel like I was just telling a story, I felt like I had a connection with them because they knew exactly what was in my neighborhood and what I was talking about.” “This project helped me creatively. I do plan on taking more pictures because of the good things I learned and the great pictures I took.” “I think that after this project the community will finally open their eyes to the bigger picture that I painted. When I say that I mean I am glad that they were able to see what I saw through my eyes.” -Lashawn Ray Henry W. Grady High School Visit our "Through Their Eyes" Gallery |