IPE Exclusive Feature

New Minor at USC: Photography and Social Change

The Institute for Photographic Empowerment is pleased to announce that the University of Southern California’s newest minor, Photography and Social Change, will launch Fall 2010. A cross-departmental minor, it will engage students in an exploration of the potential of photography as an instrument for social change.

“With the advent of digital media and the explosion of global media-based storytelling and participant projects, it’s time for the field to be taken seriously within academia,” said Lynn Warshafsky, Venice Arts founder and executive director.

“We are thrilled that the minor has been approved,” she said. “Our partnership with USC, through IPE, and now through the development of a minor, speaks to the importance and potential power of participant-photography, filmmaking, and multimedia.” Read the story »

Events

Through the Eyes of Haitian Children – Gallery Talk and Exhibition Opening

Fedno Lubin/Zanmi Lakay | Pinchinat Tent Encampment at the soccer field in Jacmel, Haiti, in February 2010

Through the Eyes of Haitian Children will showcase photographs of Haitian life taken before and after the devastating earthquake by youth participants in the Haiti-based project Zanmi Lakay (Haitian Creole for Friend’s Home). The project has been working with street children in Haiti for over 13 years, and was recently featured on “Lens,” the photo blog of the New York Times. The Price of Sugar, a film screening about Haitians working in slave-like conditions in the Dominican sugar industry, will augment the exhibition. Open to the public and free-of-charge. For more info, click here

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