In order to test out how others see you (and what your great-great-grandchildren might see in your pictures), put the pictures on the group's web-site Ask your partner group what they can learn from the pictures regarding:

What's similar and what's different about us?
Life style
Interests and tastes
How we're Jewish?

To help the participants think about the kinds of pictures to take, tell them the following:

"Let's say that one day your group received another letter from Beth Hatefutsoth. You open it up and start reading:

"We're planning an exhibition about your community / neighborhood and we hope you can help us. We need photographs of:
-people (the way they live, what they do, how they dress);
-homes (inside and outside);
-buildings (and what's in them);
-streets

It would be wonderful if you could take pictures of families, rooms (even messy rooms!), houses, pets, and whatever else you think of. Choose as a group.

Then go out and take pictures of your Mayor, city hall, your Rabbi, school, your teachers, synagogues, police station, community center, shopping center, Senior Citizens Homes, government offices, and the people who work in these places.

In the Diaspora, look around your city, town, community, for places (stores, restaurants) that have signs containing 'Jewish' words or symbols: in the supermarket it might be "Kosher food section." On a building it might be Star of David or a menorah. Use your imagination!

Make sure your write down what each picture is about. If you take a picture of people exercising in the health club at the community center, write it down. If it's a picture of a family preparing for a Shabbat meal, write it down."

The "editorial committee" should choose what pictures to put in the group web-site so that the members of the partner group will both get a good impression of where and how you live, and can ask questions based on what the group has recorded about itself.