New Minor at USC: Photography and Social Change
August 5, 2010
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 more
Maya Haviland Q&A: Investigating Collaborative Ethnography Through Art
May 27, 2010
In May, IPE spoke with Maya Haviland, founder of Side by Side Community Project Consulting, about her work in the field of participant media. We were particularly interested in hearing more about why she frames her work as “collaborative ethnography” and what she thinks about some of the key issues in the field.
Where are the images of Haiti, by Haitians?
by Jim Hubbard
January 30, 2010
Girl Getting Water, Photo by: Unknown, Flckr Post
There is no better time than now, nor place than Haiti, to provide citizens with cameras to tell their own story.
Everyone Is A Photographer
By Jim Hubbard
January 14, 2010
South LA Street, by Khaliq Farthing, age 15 (2009)
Decades before the advent of digital technology and cell phones equipped with cameras, working photographers were often insulted by the growing perception that everyone was a photographer.
