In this article, the authors explore how a photographer and artist-in-residence, worked with students in a community college arts classes to tell the photographic story of their dreams. This Literacy Through Photography (LTP) program gives young people cameras to tell the stories of their lives through their own images. Artist-in-residence programs are not possible in many schools and spaces. However, an art educator at any grade level could reproduce this project with materials as simple as a sheet for a studio background, a camera phone, and attention to student voice. This work provided a space for students to be the art directors and the subjects of their own images. Students were encouraged to think like artists and turn those thoughts into photographs of their dreams.