Shooting Back from Palestine
July 9, 2010
IPE co-founder Jim Hubbard and a team from Venice Arts are working in Jericho, Jerusalem, the West Bank and other areas of the Middle East this summer on a documentary project with Palestinian youth, sponsored by PalTel Group Foundation (PGF). The project includes a hands-on training component for local university students interested in sustaining a program after Jim leaves. Subscribe to IPE or check back later for more information about the project.
![Jim Hubbard and kids participate in the photography project, Shooting Back from Palestine, in Qalandia Refugee Camp next to the Jerusalem entrance [Shooting Back from Palestine is sponsored by PalTel Group Foundation]](http://joinipe.org/welcome/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/DSC_0270-e1279916144860.jpg "DSC_0270")
![Jim (at left) and New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristoff at Bil'in peace protest near Israeli fences outside Ramallah [Shooting Back from Palestine is sponsored by PalTel Group Foundation]](http://joinipe.org/welcome/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/DSC0272-e1279916129545.jpg "_DSC0272")
![Jim teaches Azeel, 17, how to use a long lens at peace protest site in Bil'in [Shooting Back from Palestine is sponsored by PalTel Group Foundation]](http://joinipe.org/welcome/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/DSC0290-e1279916109521.jpg "_DSC0290")
![While working with kids at an international peace protest, Jim captured the violence that erupted in Bil'in— a Palestinian village [Shooting Back from Palestine is sponsored by PalTel Group Foundation]](http://joinipe.org/welcome/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/MG_7773-e1279916086304.jpg "_MG_7773")
![Jim's legendary photo model Shooting Back on wall in Palestine [Shooting Back from Palestine is sponsored by PalTel Group Foundation]](http://joinipe.org/welcome/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/DSC_0019-e1279916058642.jpg "DSC_0019")
PhotoPhilanthropy 2010 Activist Awards
July 9, 2010
PhotoPhilanthropy has added a new award for community-based art organizations for this year’s Activist Awards. The new Community Activist Award will offer non-profit organizations that teach photography within a community a chance to compete for one $2,000 reward.
All accepted submissions will be publicized on the PhotoPhilanthropy website and will receive a discount toward Blurb Books. Submissions will be accepted until October 1, 2010.
To learn more about the this and other Activist Awards, including the professional, amateur and student photography competitions, click here.
Through Our Eyes: The Young Black Men’s Photovoice Project on Factors Affecting Their Transition to Manhood
July 6, 2010
Young black men from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds photographed the factors they felt affected their transitions to manhood in this gallery presented in collaboration with National Family Life & Education Center, Los Angeles Urban League, KAOS Network, Healthy African American Families II, California Institute of Health & Social Services, Children’s Institute, Inc., UCLA, RAND Corporation and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
When: Saturday, July 17 — 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Where: Vision Theatre in Leimert Park, 3341 W. 43rd Place, Los Angeles, CA 90008
For more information, contact Nazleen Bharmal at nbharmal@mednet.ucla.edu
