EXHIBIT: Open Shutters: Photographs of Iraq by Iraqi women

Open Shutters trained women from all over Iraq to share their experiences of the war and occupation using photographs and writing. Read more

Baghdad Film School—Making Movies in Iraq

The voices of ordinary Iraqis have been silenced by years of dictatorship, war, and occupation. In 2004, two London-based Iraqi filmmakers, Kasim Abid and Maysoon Pachachi, set up the Independent Film & Television College. in Baghdad to teach young Iraqis how to tell their stories through film. Read more

www.theolympian.com: Photographer works for empowerment

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