Filippo Steven Ferrara, University of Siena
ABSTRACT
This selection of images is the result of a photography laboratory organized with children and teenagers
aged between 9 and 14 over a period of six months, between April and September 2019. The laboratory
was one of the two courses, painting and photography, Angeli della Città – a small volunteering organization
based in the center of Florence providing clothing and food supplies to individuals and families living
under the poverty threshold – organized in order to grant access to children and adolescents coming from
disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds to artistic techniques, teachings and instruments which in
most cases remain precluded to them. Through a personal approach to their subjects and to the
photographic medium itself, the participants work creatively convey a unique representation of their
environments and feelings.
KEYWORDS
Photography, laboratory, access, representation, disadvantaged, children, Florence, volunteering,
organization.
