Ignition of life is a collaboration between Aimhigher, University of Bedfordshire and On Track centre of alternative education. Ten teenagers worked with an award winning artist, Ania Dabrowska and her team to use photography as a way to reflect on their life, aspirations and their future. Every day students went out with cameras in their hands, to capture aspects of life that usually remain unseen to other people. Working individually during the morning, the young people shared their images with the rest of the group in the afternoon, discussing why a particular shot was taken and what it signifies. Apart from learning new skills of like handling a camera and understanding photography more, ten boys and girls used this time to learn more about themselves and people around them, creative self-expression, hope and ambition.
Aimhigher initiative works with young people to raise their awareness, achievement and aspirations and to promote accessible routes into Higher Education.
Participatory photography "places the medium of the camera into the hands of learners to democratize the image-making dynamic and give them the power to show and speak their own realities" (Journal of transformative education)
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