Nicole Bozickovich, an elementary school art teacher, was chatting casually with her students when the topic of school pictures came up. She was teaching a classroom of second graders and she asked them to raise their hands if they were getting school pictures taken. Only two of them put their hands up.
The kids explained that their families just couldn't afford to pay for school pictures, so Nicole, who studied photography in college, knew she had to do something.
One mom explained, "I signed my daughters up to get their pictures taken, they were the only ones in their class that had signed up, and they weren't able to get their pictures taken because I didn't have the money to pay for it at the time."
Nicole, who graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art, reached out to her former school and asked to borrow a camera. But instead of just providing her with a camera, they brought in an entire studio as well as volunteers from the university.
"I wanted to make sure the students realized, and they knew, that they were important enough to be captured in a photograph," Nicole explained.
The kids were overjoyed with their pictures. Some had never had a professional picture taken before. Their parents and grandparents were grateful for Nicole's actions as well.
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