♪♪élix: a former photographer of the newyork times founded a school ofdocumentaries.white rose vilches usintroduces the founder and hisstudents.white: at 15 years old, brandoCarrillo feels that his course ofphotography changed his life.>> i look at the world verydifferent.Blanca: Ricardo is a student of the10 grade and after schooltook the course that covers allthe stages of photography inthe bronx, the poorest countyfrom New York.>> we teach them the opening,the speed you have tohave one when you are going to take somePhotos.blanca: Maía is from Oaxaca,worked in a factoryclothes, one day I discovered in hisneighborhood in the center of the bronx andhe brought his children.>> so they couldstudy, first because hereit was free and i couldn’t paysomewhere else.white: she also touched theclasses to see the effect that thephotography had on their children.>> they developed a skillit was like telling storieswith his photographs, asthink critically aboutstories they sawhow to look at the neighborhood wherethey live in a waydifferent.>> complete contest inmanhattan.Blanca: the founder of the centerHe is a journalist with more than 30years of experience.>> what we do is empowerthe community to have theirown way of expression.white: the vast majority ofphotography have never been ina gallery of the city, forthat part of his training istake them to a museum or bring themto a famous photographer likerichard sanders parainspire them.is to seek to reflect with their
