Swamped with archiving and dodging metro, I wandered around the department looking to kill time when lab tech Tim Stepien told me that there was a class of high school journalists on their way upstairs to learn photography in the Post studio. Judging quickly that having fun with students far outweighs watching the DVD burning progress meter tick down, I joined the fray and got involved. We decided to pull all the props from our storage room (which has a delightful chemical-mildew smell), let the students have a dress-up free for all, then made portraits of them role playing. We had the statement maker (top), the cross-dressing cheerleader (easily found above), the border guard (bottom) and the fiesta-lover making out with a pinata. There’s a few more, including Santa Claus and a ping pong player and the usual shy ones, but I think these are strong enough to hold some attention, if just briefly.
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