The Start of the Young Peoples Programme

Over the last two weeks, The Peoples Archive Project has got off to a great start  with two workshops delivered at Langdon Park Secondary School, where 50 Art and Design GCSE students have begun exploring Bow Road. In the first workshop the students had the opportunity to work with a professional photographer – Will Robson-Scott – to learn new portraiture photography skills. They experimented with composition, linking people to the architectural environment, and the effect of different poses. The students have also worked with Graphic Designer Sam Baum of the company Studio Baum. With Sam the students explored marketing and design, before visiting Bow Road to explore the design and architectural features of the street. Students were surprised to find the enormous range of typographies visible along Bow Road, and also looked at the ways in which pixel graphics could be created from the window arrangements on different buildings along the street. Watch this space to see how they use their explorations to develop final pieces that celebrate Bow Road in the run up to the Olympics.