*the see and sprout project*
The See and Sprout Project is a creative collective, international exchange art workshop launched by Stacie Krajchir for youth in Khao Lak Thailand affected by the 2004 Asian tsunami. Through gracious donors, enough funds were raised to bring cameras to a small area in Southern Thailand.
1 village.18 cameras .42 children and a lifetime of cherished memories.
Children were guided to create visual and written images about their feelings and perceptions about themselves, their family and their community and to explore ways of translating these feelings to people who live outside their community.
Photographs combined with stories, captions and personal journal entries were edited into a group exhibition as a means to share their experiences and explore the challenges they faced before the disaster, and continue to face in their daily lives.
The workshop includes children who have lost their family, friends, homes and schools during the tsunami and beyond. How their lives are now and how they move forward having lost so much. We are launching our charter project at the incredible Baan Tham Namchai Orphanage which is a true honor. This is their journey.
Sometimes we have to ask what is our intention, this is mine.
