PHOTOGRAPHS & WRITING BY STUDIO 678
The Real Story is an exhibition featuring the work of youth photographers who participated in Studio 678 during the 2022-2023 school year. We would like to give special recognition to their hard work and creativity!
Concluding its twenty-fifth consecutive year, Studio 678 is photography and writing program conducted by Flower City Arts Center. Free to students, the club is funded by donations and grants. Photographers from Flower City Arts Center provide instruction in partnership with a local poet and volunteers in small groups of students.
Studio 678 puts a professional 35 mm film camera into the hands of middle school students and involves them in the entire creative process – from taking the pictures to making their own black & white prints in a darkroom to matting and framing their prints for exhibition. They also write poems or stories to accompany their images and create a collaborative book of their writing and photographs.
Using photography and writing as the tools, Studio 678 empowers youth to express their vision and voice, build life skills, connect with the community, apply school subjects in a practical way, utilize teamwork skills, and develop mentoring relationships with their lead teacher and community volunteers.
If you are interested in donating to or volunteering with Studio 678 please call the Photography Department: 585-271-5920 or lwebster@flowercityarts.org. Any donations of $35 or more may receive a copy of the collaborative book of photographs and writing created by the talented young artists featured here.
