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July 22, 2008
Looking for more ways to connect to the Institute? You can now join us on Facebook, the world’s most popular social networking site, to track all IPE news, updates and events. Follow the link below, or CLICK HERE to visit IPE’s Facebook page.
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Kenny Loo - View Finder
June 19, 2008
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Kenny Loo’s disposable cameras give kids a close-up view of life in foreign countries (06.25.2007)
When senior Kenny Loo gave 100 disposable cameras to UCI students and friends traveling abroad last summer, it wasn’t because he wanted their vacation photos. Rather, Loo wanted them to turn the cameras over to local kids to capture close-up views of life in foreign countries. Loo’s purpose? To share the images with Orange County youths, many of whom, he says, are underexposed to different people and places. Read more
Empowering Youth Through Photography
June 17, 2008
Focus on Youth empowers at-risk teens through photography by bringing them together with mentors to experience their world in new ways. We are a non-profit mentor project that teaches photography to at-risk inner city teens from diverse cultures, ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds. Professional and hobbyist photographers volunteer as adult mentors, sharing their expertise, skills and enthusiasm with students.
Engaging and empowering students through photography
June 16, 2008
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A picture may be worth a thousand words, but the photo documentary of Baltimore City’s public schools was priceless.
Equipped with 35mm point-and-shoot cameras, 60 students from grades 3 to 12 snapped more than 1,500 pictures documenting the physical conditions of their schools between July 2004 and April 2005.
“Empowerment through photography is what I call it,” says Chinquapin Middle School teacher Helen Washington, a member of the Baltimore Teachers Union (BTU). Read more
Young filmmakers turn their cameras on their schools
June 2, 2008
What makes a teacher worth paying attention to? What makes a school worth going to? Recently, Listen Up!, a network of 60 youth media organizations nationwide, invited ten youth production teams to answer these questions. Read more
