Introduction
This photographic exchange project began in September 2008 with the aim of forging links between Chenderit School, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom and the Ugandan schools MM College Wariaka near Jinja and Gayaza School near Kampala.
At the start of the project, students from the schools used cameras to document their lives and the things that were important to them. Students from each school were interested in how students in the other schools saw the world and their place within it. From the first photographs, students from Chenderit School planned the next stage of the project where students worked on creating portraits of people from their schools. The people held objects that were important to them and wrote about their experiences of school, the reason behind their choice of object to hold, and their hopes and aspirations for the future. There are many similarities as well as differences to be found between the Ugandan photographs and the British photographs.
