This school year, a small group of New Trier High School yearlong digital photography students have been collaborating with Joseph Sears Middle School photography students on an ongoing project, taking double exposure photos with a plastic film camera. While New Trier has been working with sender schools and doing outreach programs for years, this partnership started this fall after a Sears teacher reached out to New Trier photography teacher Jennifer Jackson about doing a joint project. The group met for the second time this school year on Jan. 30.
The students photographed the neighborhood between Sears and New Trier, capturing the physical space, as well as bridging the gap between students of both schools. For the project, the high school students photograph a shot and then pass the camera over to their junior high partner to capture a similar subject, but from a different perspective. Because the camera is double exposure, these two images overlap, highlighting the similarities a...