Photography for Social Impact Workshop: For the Compassionate Photographer

A fine line exists between photojournalism, documentary photography and participatory (photo empowerment) photography. This is a workshop, the first of its kind on the west coast, designed for you to improve your photography skills and engage the various practices of all of the above mentioned genres. Read more

Important issues go to school

Venice Arts is bringing social empowerment to students

VENICE Following a three-week visit to Africa where photographers captured the world of AIDS orphans through a camera lens, Venice Arts and USC have joined forces to create an institute that promotes social empowerment through photography. Read more

Empowering Youth Through Photography

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.

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Engaging and empowering students through photography

 

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