Young filmmakers turn their cameras on their schools

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

Documenting our Lives; Using Video Cameras to Tell Stories of Struggle & Exploitation

“Documenting our Lives” (2001-2004) was a continuation of GAATW’s commitment and solidarity with the struggle of women within the informal economy for social, political and legal rights. Read more

PBS’ MediaShift:Your Guide to Soldier Videos from Iraq

If the first Gulf War put cable news and CNN on the map, the second Gulf War in Iraq has put video shot by soldiers in the spotlight. I first wrote about these videos in January, focusing on the ones that proliferated at the video-sharing site YouTube. But now, the phenomenon has exploded into the mainstream, with an MTV documentary, Iraq Uploaded and a full-length film, The War Tapes (”the first war movie filmed by soldiers themselves”). Read more

Paris: Retrospective of Kenya photography: ‘It gives them a voice’

The close-up shows a boy of no more than 14 bludgeoned to death, a bloodstained rock next to his head. “This thief was beaten because he stole a TV and radio,” the caption says. “They say a thief’s life-span is about 40 days. He would not have been killed if life in the slum was not so hard.” Read more

Youth photography project based in the Mathare Valley slum

The Mwelu Foundation is a youth photography project based in the Mathare Valley slum in Nairobi, Kenya. Currently we are working with 45 children who themselves are determined to change their lives for the better. Read more