www.theolympian.com: Photographer works for empowerment
April 3, 2008
Photographer works for empowerment
Diane Huber
Original post: http://www.theolympian.com/laceytoday/story/406793.html
Rebekah-mae Bruns spent a year in Iraq as an Army photographer. She returned shaken and consumed with stopping war.
“When I came home, the devastation became so overwhelming that I became almost obsessive about preventing it,” she said from her Lacey residence.
Bruns, 36, saw a connection between war and a lack of education — particularly female education.
She enrolled in Saint Martin’s University’s Master of Education program. Then she took her photography background to a village in southern Tanzania and spent three months teaching 14 teenage girls photography and video skills. Read more
Web Article: Point. Shoot. See
March 28, 2008
Original article published on Smithsonian.com. To visit the site, please click here.
Point. Shoot. See
by Jess Blumberg.
In Zambia, an NYC photographer teaches kids orphaned by AIDS how to take pictures. They teach him about living
- By Jess Blumberg
- Smithsonian magazine, November 2007 Read more
The House Is Small But The Welcome Is Big
March 17, 2008
Photography arts activists with the project The House is Small but the Welcome is Big discuss the experience of teaching photography to women affected by AIDS in Cape Town, South Africa. Read more
The House Is Small
March 11, 2008
The House is Small but the Welcome is Big explores the impact of HIV/AIDS as experienced through the eyes of women and children living in South Africa and Mozambique. The first phase of the project was completed in February 2006, in collaboration with the much–lauded Mothers2Mothers, when Venice Arts’ photographers traveled to Cape Town, South Africa to teach 15 HIV positive women, recent moms and moms-to-be, how to document their lives photographically. Working with Venice Arts’ photo mentors, these courageous women, many of whom had chosen to fight HIV stigma by “coming out” about their status and educating other pregnant women in the hopes of preventing mother-to-child transmission, created a powerful body of documentary photography that gives a human face to the continuing global AIDS crisis and, in particular, its impact on women and children. Read more
