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
