New Minor at USC: Photography and Social Change
August 5, 2010
The Institute for Photographic Empowerment is pleased to announce that the University of Southern California’s newest minor, Photography and Social Change, will launch Fall 2010. A cross-departmental minor, it will engage students in an exploration of the potential of photography as an instrument for social change.
“With the advent of digital media and the explosion of global media-based storytelling and participant projects, it’s time for the field to be taken seriously within academia,” said Lynn Warshafsky, Venice Arts founder and executive director.
“We are thrilled that the minor has been approved,” she said. “Our partnership with USC, through IPE, and now through the development of a minor, speaks to the importance and potential power of participant-photography, filmmaking, and multimedia.” Read more
MEDIA THAT MATTERS: Call for Entries-Deadline January 22, 2010
December 12, 2009
“Screen. Act. Impact.”
Media That Matters is a showcase of films which are based around the idea of social change. This international campaign is meant to create discussion and encourage educators, youth and organizers to “Take Action around these films.”
For information about submission criteria and festival details, go HERE.
Youth Producing Change: Call For Submissions-Deadline December 10, 2009
December 12, 2009
The Human Rights Watch International Film Festival in partnership with Adobe Youth Voices is looking for submissions of film, video and animated works created by youth ages 19 and under. Ages 19 and under, criteria for entries include “exposing human rights issues faced by themselves and their communities.” Selections will travel to a variety of international film festivals, as well as distributed to teachers throughout the United States.
For more information about submission guidelines, go HERE.
Seeing Beyond Sight: An Interview with Tony Deifell
November 13, 2009
Los Angeles, October 2009 – It started in 1991 with a question: What would happen if you put a camera into the hands of a blind student? For Tony Deifell, a photojournalist turned non-profit leader, the inspiration behind this question was two-fold. “I was really interested in the intersection between documentary work and social change,” he explains over the phone from his Bay Area home. Read more
