The Stolen Ninety-Nine project includes photographs taken at Peopleplace Cooperative preschool in Camden, Maine. For this project, I photographed objects in the classroom to capture the creative energy embodied in this Reggio Emilia-based classroom. These objects are used to support the education mission of the school by encouraging creative play, art and storytelling in addition to more traditional reading and number skills.
The title and inspiration for this project come from...
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The Stolen Ninety-Nine project includes photographs taken at Peopleplace Cooperative preschool in Camden, Maine. For this project, I photographed objects in the classroom to capture the creative energy embodied in this Reggio Emilia-based classroom. These objects are used to support the education mission of the school by encouraging creative play, art and storytelling in addition to more traditional reading and number skills.
The title and inspiration for this project come from a poem by Loris Malaguzzi, an excerpt of which is included below:
"The child has a hundred languages, a hundred hands, a hundred thoughts, a hundred ways of thinking, of playing, of speaking. A hundred, always a hundred, ways of listening, of marveling, of loving, a hundred joys for singing and understanding, a hundred worlds to discover, a hundred worlds to invent, a hundred worlds to dream....but they steal ninety-nine...They tell the child to discover the world already there and of the hundred they steal ninety-nine. They tell the child that work and play, reality and fantasy, science and imagination, sky and earth, reason and dreams, are things that do not belong together...And thus they tell the child that the hundred is not there. The child says: No way. The hundred is there."
- Loris Malaguzzi
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