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The
Clackamas Print
Feature
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Developing their abilities
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What is hunger? Participants
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got a taste of it For 24 hours all
they had to eat was Saltine crack
1.7 million: That’s the estimat ers, and all they had to drink was
ed number of displaced people water.
What is homelessness? The
currently in Uganda.
Last Saturday, ^7,871 peo participants only had cardboard
ple gathered in cities across the boxes.
“We built our own houses,”
Uhited States to raise awareness
for the situation in Uganda and to said Makano. “There were some
experience exactly what it’s like creative pçople there.”
It wasn’t only about the refii-
to be a refugee.
. This event ‘Displace Me,’ gee experience: They showed the
was organized by a non-profit Invisible Children movie, had a
s group called Invisible Children, time of silence and wrote letters
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to U.S. senators and the president
The group was bom from a of Uganda. /
. film tfie^jhree original founders ■ \ •’ ^3 think it was good,” said
created in 2003. Now, according Esther Prentice, a Clackamas sta-
; to their mission statement they dent and president of the college’s
are actively myolyed in improving Global Activism Chib. “They’ll
get so many letters. I think there
ï “the quality of life for war-affect-
[ ed children by providing access was a news station there too.”
Makano, who was bom in
to quality education, enhanced
learning environments and inno Africa, wants to continue spread
vative economic opportunities for ing the word here at the col
the community” through various lege. The most effective way, he
thinks, is to show the original
outreaches.
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One of the ‘Displace Me?,cit- Invisible Children film.
■ tes last weekend was Seattle,'Wa.
“I look at it and just go,
B ’ According to Useni Makano, a ‘Wow,’” he said. “I really want
tjjjudent ambassador and “Displace to get the word out. If people are
Jr-Me” participant ages ranged from wi lling to come watch the video,
16 to 30 years old, and there were I want to show it It’s an eye-
I quite a few Clackamas students opener. You can’t ignore it.”
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Katie Wilson
Emily Walters
The Clackamas Print
They
are
disappearing
throughout the country - no, I
speak not of the fairies, although
they are getting mighty rare
these days. Alas, I am talking of
darkrooms, the realm of photog
raphers.
With the coming of digital
photography -to the art scene,
many darkrooms have vanished.
However, many schools, includ
ing Clackamas, still have them in
use. Oregon State University, for
instance, has several.
At Clackamas, film photog
raphy has been taught off and
on throughout the years. Several
years ago, a makeshift darkroom
was set up in the old Art Center.
The photography classes had
to use that darkroom for about
three years, sharing space with
the jewelry and metals classes.
Then, in June 2003, the cur
rent darkroom was built in the
new Art Center, and the students
were able to develop their film
without having to set up all the
equipment, only to have to tear it
down again at the end of class.
Smith Eliot is the sole film
photography
instructor
at
Clackamas, and also teaches at
Portland Community College.
Though having experience with
both film and digital photogra
phy, she has observed that film is
generally the preferred medium.
“Amongst those who are
invested in photography, there is
a lot of controversy over whether
digital prints last as long as silver
prints,” said Eliot. “There aré
very few people who think that
digital prints are better.”
Surprisingly, her photogra
phy classes have not suffered
at all for students, even with the
ever-gaining popularity of digital
photography.
“Here at Clackamas, I find
that classes are still as full as
they ever were,” she said.
Eliot believes that the photog
raphy classes would not be the
same if the darkroom was not
available to the students.
“Here’s an analogy: It would
be like telling a volleyballer how
to play, but never putting them
out on the court,” she said. “The
students have to train their eyes
as part of the process to becom
ing an accomplished photogra
pher.”
The Clackamas darkroom is
a key part of Eliot’s classes.
Her passion for photography has
been enriched by the hands-on
darkroom experience.
“I personally prefer the dark
room to the printer because there
is a certain degree of interaction
that you cannot get from the
computer to the printer that you
have in the darkroom,” she said.
Walking into the darkroom is
almost like entering a different
world; the lighting and smell cre
ates an unearthly atmosphere.
“There is something really
magical about the alchemy of
darkroom printing,” said Eliot.
“It’s kind of like turning silver
into gold, but the gold is the
image.”
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ABOVE: CCC student Esther Prentice builds a shelter out of cardboard. BELOW: (Left to right)]
ASG Members Margo Wyatt, Mitch Hayse and Useni Makano take a moment to relax during tha
event. BOTTOM: The Displace Me site where nearly 68,000 people gathered last weekend. Fol
more information about Invisible Children, Inc., visit www.invisiblechildren.com.
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