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A month has passed and hundreds of artists, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, have entered the 2009 Orient Global Freedom to Create Prize. This $125,000 award honours artists on the frontlines who... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Irecently had the pleasure of meetingSteve Davis. In the near future, will provide a full transcript plus a selection of works from hisCaptured Youthproject. In the meantime, I’d like to share... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more...
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If you missed the “Through the Lens of D.C. Youth” exhibit opening, you can catch some of the photographs at the MOCA DC gallery in Georgetown from June 5th-27th. Information about the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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PhotoPhilanthropy Activist Awards: The PhotoPhilanthropy Activist Awards allow student, amateur and professional photographers to capture the work of a local or global not-for-profit organization... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more...
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While the Contrast Project is currently expanding to involve youth groups in Washington, DC, and other locations, the project focuses on primarily on youth in the West Bank of the Palestinian... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Jim Hubbard, an acclaimed documentary photographer who is the Creative Director at Venice Arts, an IPE co-founder, and Adjunct Professor at USC Annenberg, will be presenting on his work... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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This entry is part 27 of 22 in the series visual communication and social changeUSC student Amanda Fallon explores how the “insiders” view is changing the paradigm in photographic... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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USC student Kristina Lee explores the controversies surrounding participant–photography: Pluralist photography intends to give a voice to would-be subjects of documentation. Opposing the more... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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The SHOOTBACK Project is still going strong and 6 of founder Lana Wong’s original student arenow professional photographers and filmmakers in Kenya and London. The project is always in need... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Through March 30, 2009 an exhibit of large scale participant-photographs will be on display in a community just outside of Bogotá. This unique project, “Barrio El Progreso”, consists of 100... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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March, 2009. Zanmi Lakay, an organization dedicated to helping current and former street children in Haiti, will be implementing several projects during Spring 2009. They are looking for digital... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more...
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IPE co-founders, Jim Hubbard and Lynn Warshafsky, have created a new photo project with women who are both homeless and mentally ill. The project aims to support the participants as they explore and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more...
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“We have a big challenge now to go to work in documenting the rich cultural and traditional values of Ghanaian society before the western cultural tsunami swallows us.” -Godwin... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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USC students interested in how documentary and participant-produced photography is used to affect social change may enroll this Spring in Visual Communication & Social Change, a popular course... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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January 12-February 5, 2009, World Press Photo 2008 The World Press Photo 2008 exhibit will be displayed in the Annenberg East Lobby, Mon.–Fri. 10am-7pm, Sat. 10am-5pm. Closed Jan. 19 Closes at 1:30... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more...
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PhotoVoice has set the photography brief for 2009 asking students to ‘Tell a story through a photo-essay that changes people’s perceptions of wealth and poverty’. The awards are... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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The first such event to be organized in Southeast Asia. This festival was created in 2005 and this year, for the fourth time, the temples of Angkor will become a hub that will draw both famous and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more...
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… a knowledge of photography is just as important as that of the alphabet. The illiterate of the future will be ignorant of the use of the camera and pen alike. – Laszlo Moholy-Nagy,...
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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... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more...
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Outside the Lens (OTL) is a San Diego-based youth media literacy program dedicated to enriching and celebrating the visions and voices of children.Workshops are led by writers, poets, journalists,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more...
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Photo novella does not entrust cameras to health specialists, policymakers, or profes sional photographers, but puts them in the hands of children, rural women, grassroots workers, and other... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the everyday issues, challenges,struggles, and needs of elderly, community-dwelling women in the first weeks post hospital discharge. Fourteen... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more...
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09 Human Rights Watch International Film Festival New York | June 12 - June 25 YOUTH PRODUCING CHANGE CALL FOR YOUTH MEDIA SUBMISSIONS ON HUMAN RIGHTS *Deadline for submissions: December 10,...
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Open Shutters trained women from all over Iraq to share their experiences of the war and occupation using photographs and writing. Before choosing their story, the women prepared and presented... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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This course promises to be a dynamic experience, as it places writing in a real-world context by partnering USC students with community groups to identify local problems and to use rhetorical tools... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more...
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Friends and Family~ Thank you so much for the support you’ve given me this past year, as we’ve been building Children of Our Villages. Thank you for taking a stand with me to give... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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The Contrast Project works with Palestinian youth in using digital photography and video as tools for expression and advocacy. The project started in the summer of 2006 with photography trainings... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more...
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At the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting today, Pure Digital Technologies announced a donor-matching program designed to put the power of video to work for nonprofit organizations... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Through collaboration between Archeworks, Inc., an alternative design program, and the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, items and services designed to improve the lives of persons with stroke... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more...
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Dr. Neal Baer and Lynn Warshafsky, from Venice Arts and founding directors of IPE, are presenting on participant-produced work at the Aspen Institute’s Cultural Diplomacy Forum in Paris,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Samar Jodha, a photographer working in between South Asia and the Middle East on various Social communication Projects. He has been involved with the Dhaka project since 2006 and April 2008 he... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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HIV: Hey, It’s Viral! is a 20-minute educational video geared toward informing young audiences about what HIV/AIDS is, examining how HIV is transmitted and prevented, risk reduction, safer sex... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Nearly half of the world’s population is under 25 years old, yet their voices and opinions have little representation internationally. Reel Youth is working to change that. In October of 2008,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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The third annual international conference Visible Rights: Photography by and for Youth brings together artists, educators, human rights activists and scholars for a continued and deepening discussion... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more...
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Exposing Homelessness is a film that documents the experience of three formerly homeless women who participated in a three-month photography workshop. They were given 35mm cameras and instructed in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more...
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San Francisco photographer, Adrianne Koteen, traveled to Cairo, Egypt in March, 2008 to implement a digital photography workshop. “With a focus on providing basic skills, media literacy, and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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During my first few weeks as a Junior Fellow, Geoffrey Cowan, Director of the Center on Communication Leadership, University Professor and holder of the Annenberg Family Chair in Communication... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Organization Canadian Family Physician wanted to learn more about Canadian youth so they implemented a photo novella program to accomplish this. OBJECTIVE:?To determine what health problems concern... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more...
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This research takes as its central focus an alternate methodology of research, using photo novella as a tool and a participatory process. Here, cameras are used to explore social reality, but the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more...
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Remedee invites you to the premiere of Reel Earth: A Green Carpet Event. When:  November 1, 2008 at 5PM Where:  New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA), 2800 Chartres Street What:   A screening... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more...
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The aim of this paper is to report a study to identify themes and provide a ’snap-shot’ of the scope and uses of photography in clinical nursing practice and research. Background. Despite... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Showing just days after the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Way Down in New Orleans unites an array of New Orleans-based artists with other artists nationwide, including: Marc Bianchi, Brice... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more...
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The first fundamental rule when working with children is their safety. They are to be protected at all costs and especially in high-risk situations. They are not pawns in the socio-political spheres... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more...
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Children of Our Villages empowers young people to create prosperity and awareness through filmmaking and self-expression. A team of professional filmmakers and educators from the US and Namibia... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Overwhelming evidence has shown that girls and young women need more information technology training in supportive environments. Research shows that parents, teachers and other adults typically... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more...
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Shoot Nations is a joint partnership between Plan UK and Shoot Experience to encourage young people to express their thoughts on global issues through photography and drawings. Shoot Nations aims to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more...