Links

Photo Empowerment Organizations
Links to organizations and groups whose primary purpose is the development and implementation of ongoing participant–produced photography, film, and/or digital media projects.

• Aja Project
• AJA Project - Disparando Cameras Para La Paz
• Belo Horizonte : Clicking Hearts
• Bridges To Understanding
• Bueno Kids
• Cameras For Kids
• Center For Digital Storytelling
• Critical Exposures
• Dream Big, Laugh Loud
• Fotokids Guatemala
• Global Action Project
• Kids With Cameras
• Listen Up
• MediaRights
• Outside The Dream
• Photo Exchangers
• Photo Voice UK
• Remedee
• Shooting Back
• The 450 Photo Experience
• The Appalshop
• The Creative Center
• The Migrant Photography Project
• The Shootback Project
• Through Their Eyes Africa
• Venice Arts
• Voices: Community Stories Past And Present
• Youth in Focus

Photo Empowerment Projects
Links to organizations who have implemented one–time participant–produced projects or who regularly offer such projects as one component of a broader mission.

• A Worldwide Photography Project with Young People
• BBC Telling Lives: Digital Stories
• Cameras For Kids: Through The Eyes of Bosnian Children
• Finding Voice Project
• First Exposures
• I WAS HERE | Media Workshop
• My World, My View
• NFB Filmmaker-In-Residence
• PH 15
• Positive Lives
• Project Luz
• Put a Camera in a Child’s Hand
• Shoot Back
• SOIL
• The “Face to Face” project
• The Angkor Photography Festival
• The Blind Photographer
• The Contrast Project
• The House Is Small
• The Mwelu Foundation
• The New Orleans Kid Camera Project
• The Rwanda Project
• The See and Sprout Project
• Through the Eyes of Hope Project
• Ubutunzi Project
• Unseen America
• unseen mae la: Photos of Refugee Life Taken by Karen Refugees
• Video Arts Postcards
• “Kids Helping Kids” Photography Exhibit

University Initiatives
Links to educational institutions and professional organizations engaged in both the study and practice of photographic empowerment projects.

• Center for Documentary Studies (CDS)
• Cultural Agents Initiative
• Literacy Through Photography
• Photo Voice
• Place: Vision & Voice
• The International Visual Sociology Association
• USC Annenberg Center On Communication Leadership

Supporting Organizations
Links to other organizations whose commitment to documentary work closely aligns with those in the field of photographic empowerment.

• 911 Media
• Adobe’s Digital Kids Club
• Arts Engine
• Arts Engine
• Collective Lens
• Daylight Magazine
• Echo Park Film Center
• Educational Video Center
• Fifty Crows
• Launchpad
• Majority World
• Media Education
• Media For Social Justice
• Media Magic Digest by Unicef
• Photo Imaging Education Association
• Photo Wings
• Picture-Projects
• Plan India
• Reel Grrls
• The Aftermath Project
• The Common Language Project
• The Hub - participatory media site for human rights
• The New Eyes Project
• Unicef - Voices Of Youth
• Witness
• Youth Media Reporter