Nancy McGirr of Fotokids Is Honored for Her Work With Guatemalan Youths

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From Out of the Dump to the Top of the Heap

Nancy McGirr went from covering civil wars in Central America to teaching photography to impoverished children. Twenty years later, she’s being honored for her dedication to her students and her art.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/24/from-out-of-the-dump-to-the-top-of-the-heap/

Nancy McGirr has spent two decades in Guatemala finding value amid castoffs. The symbolism did not escape her when she started teaching photography to a handful of children whose families eked out a living scavenging through the festering, grimy heaps of the capital’s municipal dump.