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<STRONG>His name is a chosen name—Bingwa, from the Swahili word for “champion.”</STRONG> He is an actor by profession, but most of the time he is Bingwa, the human magnet. Around him, drawn by his radiating warmth and confidence, are the kids he has pulled together in the Venice Dream Team.
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Bingwa, in the 1970s was a restless young African American in Oakland, CA. To channel his energy, he tried a stint in community theater and then moved on to Venice, CA, a noisy, funky place, close enough to Los Angeles to have an LA air. Venice’s beach and bustling boardwalk evoke its turn-of-the-century heyday as “The Coney Island of the West.” People still go there to have fun. Tourists wander around. Body-builders work out on Muscle Beach. And there were kids looking as if they had nothing to do.
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In Venice Bingwa found his mission: putting kids and cameras together in a team—the Venice Dream Team.
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Kids as young as seven join the Team, and they usually stay into their early teens. Even though each kid develops a personal photographic eye, the Team is what each shoots for and works for. “It’s a Team,” Bingwa says. “We don’t have stars.”
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The Venice Dream Team is always in motion: travel, take pictures, print and exhibit the photographs, sell them—and use the money to travel again.
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<A HREF="/US/en/corp/features/veniceDreamTeam/learning/index.shtml" TARGET="kodak_body">Learning The Craft </A></P>
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<A HREF="/US/en/corp/features/veniceDreamTeam/world/index.shtml" TARGET="kodak_body">The World in a Viewfinder </A></P>
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<A HREF="/US/en/corp/features/veniceDreamTeam/shooting/index.shtml" TARGET="kodak_body">Shooting The Pictures </A></P>
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<A HREF="/US/en/corp/features/veniceDreamTeam/picture/index.shtml" TARGET="kodak_body">What Makes A Picture? </A></P>
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<A HREF="/US/en/corp/features/veniceDreamTeam/printing/index.shtml" TARGET="kodak_body">Printing The Pictures </A></P>
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<A HREF="/US/en/corp/features/veniceDreamTeam/selling/index.shtml" TARGET="kodak_body">Selling Pictures </A></P>
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<A HREF="/US/en/corp/features/veniceDreamTeam/corrina/index.shtml" TARGET="kodak_body">A Dream After The Team </A></P>
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<STRONG>p h o t o c r e d i t s :</STRONG>
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55—Te’Amir Sweeny <EM>New York, NY</EM>
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14—Francesca Hiabick <EM>New York, NY</EM>
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18—Jennifer Wolf <EM>New York, NY</EM>
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17—Jennifer Wolf <EM>New York, NY</EM>
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60—John Moraes <EM>New York, NY</EM>
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61—John Moraes <EM>New York, NY</EM>
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29—Brooke Aleman <EM>Venice, CA</EM>
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17—Jeremy Espinoza <EM>Venice, CA</EM>
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32—Aaron Deckhard <EM>New York, NY</EM>
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83—Te’Amir Sweeny <EM>Berlin, Germany</EM>
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12—Jaja Ajan <EM>Paris, France</EM>
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32—Te’Amir Sweeny <EM>New York, NY</EM>
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