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Planning for Foto Friendship 2020

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Foto Friendship 2016

In 2016 we were happy to welcome students from Cabramatta High School in Sydney to participate in Foto Friendship for a second time. This time round students were linked with foto friends at Eskola Secundária Katólika Santa Madalena de Canossa in Dili.

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Dili Exhibition January 2016

On January 25, 2016 a major Foto Friendship exhibition opened at the Xanana Gusmão Cultural Centre in Dili, Timor-Leste. The exhibition featured the work of students from two Australian schools Cabramatta High School in Sydney and Winmalee High School in the Blue Mountains and Eskola Secundária Katólika Nain Feto Ramelau, in Hato-Builico, Timor-Leste.

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Peace Day Cabramatta High School November 2015

On November 13th Foto Friendship was proud to be part of Cabramatta High School’s Peace Day. This annual celebration of multiculturalism attended by students from 15 schools, brought together 60 cultures in a demonstration of culture, harmony and creativity.

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Hello from Winmalee High School June 2015

In June 2015 students at Winmalee High School began creating their own ‘foto stories’ in response to the stories from students at Eskola Secundária Katólika Nain Feto Ramelau, in Hato-Builico, Timor-Leste. Here students from Winmalee share thoughts on what the project means to them.

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Hello from Cabramatta High School June 2015

In June 2015 Australian school students at Cabramatta High school were introduced to new friends in Hato-Builico, Timor-Leste and are creating their own foto stories to send back. Josephine writes about what Foto Friendship means to her: “Foto Friendship? What is it? To me, Foto Friendship means making friends with kids in East Timor and telling them about our lives through photos.”

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Head On Photography Festival April 2015

In April 2015 Foto Friendship held its first exhibition as part of the Head On Photo Festival in Sydney. The exhibition held at the ACA in the Italian Forum in Leichhardt featured a glimpse of the students that took part in the project from Timor-Leste’s capital Dili and the remote mountainous sub-district of Hato-Builico. For many of these students it was the first time they had ever used a camera.

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Foto Friendship goes to Hato-Builico March 2015

In March 2015 we embarked on an ambitious project to take Foto Friendship to the remote mountainous sub-district of Hato-Builico, Timor-Leste. Here Timorese film-makers Bety Reis and Gaspar Sarmento (Beatriz’s War) worked with Foto Friendship founders Tammy Burnstock and Wendy Chandler to teach students how to use cameras for the very first time.

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Birth of Foto Friendship 2014

In June 2014 the first Foto Friendship project began in Dili Timor-Leste. The co-founders from Australia Tammy Burnstock and Wendy Chandler worked with high school students Evangelina Soares Gama and Anastácio Maderia de Araújo who both participated and helped co-facilitate the project at their school, Eskola Katólika Sagrado Coração De Jesus.

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