PHOTOVOICE, social change through photography
June 19, 2008
Photovoice blends a grassroots approach to photography and social action. It provides cameras not to health specialists, policy makers, or professionals, but to people with least access to those who make decisions affecting their lives. 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.
Organization for Youth Empowerment
June 17, 2008
Photography is a creative form of image making accessible to children of all ages. During the first six months of OYE, as a pilot program, children aged five to sixteen were taught how to use simple camera equipment to creatively portray and reflect about their lives and community. Starting with only five point and shoot cameras, the photography students have taken beautiful and perceptive black and white portraits of their friends, family and neighbors. Read more
Searching for El Dorado…
June 17, 2008
Searching for Eldorado consists of series of photographs taken by the participants of the project, twelve young people between the ages of 10 and 18, over the course of four months. The results have been used to build this website, which provides a portrait of the community of Eldorado through the eyes of its children and youth. Read more
Engaging and empowering students through photography
June 16, 2008
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
