Curtis Dobie laughs at jokes told by his friends as the sun sets in his Largo neighborhood. The images are on display at Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church located at 13255 118th St. N, Largo.
The idea was to have young people explore their community through the eye of a camera.
It started in January when the Youth Arts Corps partnered with the Greater Ridgecrest Area Youth Development Initiative to facilitate the Target Arts Education grant.
The Ridgecrest Photo Project is an extension of Family Resources Inc. and the Youth Arts Corps, an after-school fine arts program that operates out of the studios of the Gulf Coast Museum of Art in Largo.
The participants were Andre Dearman, 14, of Osceola Middle School; Christopher Johnson, 16, of Largo High School; Margarita Alfaro, 14, of Madeira Beach Middle School; and Kayneisha Booze, 18, and Kenneth McKellar, 18, both of Dunedin High School.
Each participant was given a digital camera under the professional instruction of Atoyia Deans, a photographer for the St. Petersburg Times.
The youths began recording the history and day-to-day events of the neighborhood in which they live. The project ran from mid January to April. Here are some of their best photographs.
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