Mathematical photography

Mathematical photography from Carlos Guallart on Vimeo.

Mathematical photography is a traditional activity in our school, linked to the subject with the same name. The event brings together secondary school and high school students, and what teachers want is to make students see that mathematics is more than just numbers, and they are present in many aspects of the real and daily life. More specifically, with mathematical photography we try to bring into the class geometric shapes around us, both in the city and nature. This activity was born and is involved in the contest of the same name that promotes Andalan Secondary School in Zaragoza and in several years our students have been awarded top honors.
Participating is very simple and the rules are very clear and affecting: the size, the frame, the dates, the motifs; ... Students may submit up to three photographs.
New for this year is that at least one of the three photographs should be an architectural aspect (square, street, building, ...) in Zaragoza , as well as mathematical aspects. As our school has four classes per grade (A, B, C, D), we split the city into four zones and assign each letter an area of Zaragoza . With this, we get photographed much of the city and get to "an architecture –mathematical map" of our city.
The challenge ahead is to translate these photographs on a plane and do a little mathematical explanation of each one so that everyone can enjoy maths and our city.