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Thanks Karen.
On your earlier point, I live in a University city here in Canada and one of their professors (of photography) a couple of years back did some presenting/leading at a local kids school and after a couple of weeks handed out about 12 'throw away' cameras. The kids were taken to a couple of well-known local attractions and told to take pictures of what they liked.... so they did, and what a fascinating set of images they were. Most of them included their friends doing 'silly' things but generally they had no hesitation in photographing people..... unlike older people, even quite experienced camera club members, who (for various reasons, many perfectly understandable) tend to shy away from people pictures. They also recorded their impressions of buildings in a very original, dramatic way - nearly all of which would have stood comparison with almost any adult's work.
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