More than 80 Attend
Our Children, Our World

More than 80 adults and several children enjoyed the more than 70 photographs during the opening of the Our Children, Our World exhibit.   The exhibit runs through Saturday, January 7, 2006 at the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C.

Snippets subscriber Jackie Johnson from N.E. Washington learned of the event through Snippets.  “My son happened to have an appointment today, so I stopped by,” she said.  “I love the photographs,” exclaimed Jean Lemkou of Yellow Springs, Ohio, who is producing a book on Cuban families with Nestor Herandez,  Our Children, Our World's curator.

Several of the families from Clara Muhammad School also attended.  “Mommy, look it’s me!,” said Hamilah Mohammed of the picture her then five-year-old sister Azizah Mohammed had taken.

Children from Accra, Ghana; Pinar del Rio, Cuba; and Washington, D.C. and Gary, Indiana, USA  took the photographs.  “I like the international flavor,” noted Sarah Stewart of Greenbelt, MD.
   
Our Children, Our Worlds travels to Gary, Indiana (among American big cities, Gary has the largest percentage of Black people) as an official event marking the city’s centennial.   Hernandez is leading another exhibit that opens November 5 in Bamako, Mali, West Africa for the 6th Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie. 

Photograph:  One of the exhibit text panels.

Photograph: Effi Berry stops from exploring the world of children photography to take a picture with the curator of the project Nestor Hernandez.