Primary school students are being given the tools to capture their surroundings as part of a project being launched around the country.
My World My Vision will see 400 disposable cameras distributed to five and six year olds, with the plan to give them a camera every year until they finish school.
The project, driven by photographer Ashok Kochar, was first launched last year with the idea to see the world from a child's perspective.
Kochar was impressed by the outcome and described the photos as "unpolluted."
"Professionals cannot take those images - they cannot come close to those images of a five and six-year-old," he told Radio New Zealand.
This year's project was launched yesterday at West Auckland's Laingholm Primary School, with the help of Waitakere's former mayor Sir Bob Harvey, who said he was glad to be able to bring the project to students in his own backyard.
"This is very important for them to relate to the natural world or their world and to give them confidence and to encourage them."
Laingholm Primary School principal Martyn Weatherill said it was often difficult to initiate that type of creative project in schools, reports Radio New Zealand.
Parents have been instructed to let the children do whatever they wish.
Kochar will be holding photography workshops throughout the year with the intention of holding an exhibition of the children's photos.
A book will also be printed to include shots taken from all 400 cameras.
Kochar is excited to see what the pupils will produce.
The project is yet to be rolled out in three other schools in the country.
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