The Human Relations Council of the Bay Area has partnered with the YMCA, Boys and Girls Club, and the Police Activities League since 2009 to offer children in the 7th through 9th grades an opportunity to learn photography with photographic mentors. The children and their mentors meet in six afternoon sessions in the summer to photograph local public art, architecture, people, the farmer’s market, and one another. Mentors review the photographs with the children weekly, and at the end of the six-week session the photographs are displayed at Bergamot Station. Each child is also given a photo scrapbook of their photos as a souvenir of their work.

 

The January Art Wall is dedicated to showing some of their work, predominantly photographs taken by YMCA kids under the mentorship of Charles Haskell.

 

— Charles Haskell

 

The Human Relations Council is a partnership of community organizations, institutions, businesses, and individuals which promotes and supports a respectful and socially just community through education, advocacy, and resolution of local conflicts and issues. Website: www.hrcsantamonica.org