Yet-young...

• Guest 710

  • Registered: 28 Feb 2011
  • Posts: 6,950
  26 June 2012     09:59180066
  #1      
  I am sure there are many 'forum' related reasons why much of what is photographed has a sameness about it.
  All well and good, but it strikes me that if the bulk of the event photography was in B&W or given a Sepia tinge it would be difficult to distinguish current shots from those of yester-year. Where is the youth?
  Can there be a future without young people?
  I have darted through the internet, like a muffled titter running through a courtroom, and found some instances where the concerns and the well-being of local young people are given prominence. Alas some of these 'projects' will raise some hollow laughter when viewed in light of recent remarks from Government.
  We here cover history - on the grand and the not so grand scale, tourism, the bloody war(s) and politics - both local and national, but the future is our children, and the children of everybody else.
  Can it be that we care (still) more about shop-keepers and hoteliers, about the pounds we don't have and about the pomp and dignity of the very few to the exclusion of the very people upon whom we all rely, the yet-young?
  
  Work...
  
  http://www.thisiskent.co.uk/Schemes-launched-Dover-tackle-district-youth/story-16106347-detail/story.html
  
  Housing...
  
  http://www.dover.gov.uk/housing/housing_needs/homelessness/youth_homelessness_strategy.aspx
  
  Leisure...
  
  http://www.kent.gov.uk/education_and_learning/youth_service/centres_and_projects/dover,_ashford_and_shepway.aspx
  Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 62,352
  26 June 2012     11:24180072
  #2      
  we do cover youth matters on here tom, for example the trashing of the ground floor of the grand shaft.
  
  more recently the dover youth theatre production and any school events that we are invited to.
• Guest 710

  • Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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  26 June 2012     13:16180080
  #3      
  [Howard, you cannot seriously be making a point of telling me what goes on here.]
  
  Yes indeed, schoolchildren exist to be photographed and talked-up.
  
  What, if anything, is there to counter the stuff you mention first, especially with regard to those who have left school a year or so ago?
  Do none of the younger townspeople turn up to flag-raisings, council meetings etc.?
  
  Have we gone from "...seen and not heard." to 'all-too-often seen, but un-listened to'?
  
  I well know that there are perfectly valid reasons for photographing and up-loading what is photographed and up-loaded here on the Forum. (I did say as much)
  Mine is but a plea to hear and see more of the very-salt of our future, the yet-young. In a good way, if pos.
  Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.