Tag: participatory photography
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NYC Salt
Just found out about the NYC Salt program – inspired.
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2012 Future Imagemakers
The 2012 Community Collaboration / Future Imagemakers Workshops have started.
Char-Koosta News – Official Newspaper of the Salish and Kootenai Tribes – Seeing the community with different eyes: “Seeing the community with different eyes
By Lailani Upham
Photo taken by former TERS student, Tasheena Bigcrane.
PABLO — Middle school and high school students on the Flathead Reservation have been enthusiastic participants at Two Eagle River School for the past ten years in a personal vision and experience through a photography project called, “Our Community Record.”
Last Friday, Salish Kootenai College professor, Two Eagle River School instructor and photographer in residence David J. Spear, shared the work students have been involved in the Flathead community,” read more
* David J. Spear was one of the former NYU professors teaching Community Collaborations.
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Fotokids in Guatamela
A great article with photos about the Fotokids program in Guatamala on the NYT lens blog.
Nancy McGirr has spent two decades in Guatemala finding value amid castoffs. The symbolism did not escape her when she started teaching photography to a handful of children whose families eked out a living scavenging through the festering, grimy heaps of the capital’s municipal dump.
**New Programs I have learned about while at the Imagining America conference, Convergence Zones: Public Cultures and Translocal Practices, in Seattle, WA
The Public Square (Chicago) By building bridges between theory and practice, The Public Square encourages the use of ideas as tools to improve people’s lives. These programs promote participatory democracy and create space for public conversations. Knowledge is power, yet much crucial knowledge still circulates only in small, isolated communities.
RW121 Emerson MedellÃn – a bi-lingual, bi-national project among 100 students working across 5 First-Year Research Writing classes at Emerson College and MIT in Boston and 5 library parks (Parques Bibliotecas) and the Universidad Nacional in MedellÃn, Colombia.
Make Art / Stop AIDS
part of Art and Global HealthCenter at UCLA
(nod to Douglas Crimp- In 1987 edited a special AIDS-issue of October, entitled AIDS: Cultural Analysis/Cultural Activism. In his introduction to the edition Crimp argued for “cultural practices actively participating in the struggle against AIDS and its cultural consequences.”)
Through Positive Eyes throughpositiveeyes.org
Through Positive Eyes tells the story of HIV/AIDS at the end of the third decade of the epidemic, when potent antiretroviral medication has been devised, but when treatment access is far from universal. (Los Angeles, Mexico City, Johannesburg, Rio de Janeiro)t
The Art of Regional Change (UC DAVIS) brings together scholars, students, artists, and community groups to collaborate on media arts projects that strengthen communities, generate engaged scholarship and inform regional decision-making
Marga, Inc – A Firm, Founded by David Maurrasse, Committed to Developing Communication between Communities and Institutes
— Anchor Institutions Task Force – network to promote the role of anchor institutions in community engagement
Children’s Urban Geographies (Univ. of Buffalo)
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Dreaming With Cameras
I really think what David has done is amazing. I am inspired by an NYU graduate so close in age giving back to the community through the arts. I really like the Gallery page as an idea of how we can introduce our students on our individual web pages.
Posted by Megan E Fingleton
You all should check out this project: Reality from the Barrio, “the photography and prose of native Santa Fe youth – from censorship to survival.” I think it’s pretty well designed and there’s a good amount of information about its history, which is all quite interesting. Its layout and clarity may certainly be helpful with regards to our own project. And the story is really enjoyable too.
There was another community outreach project that I came across almost in tandem – Al Rowwad: Palestinian Children’s Theater Center, “an Independent Center for artistic, cultural, and theatre training for children in Aida Camp trying to provide a “safe” and healthy environment to help children creativity and discharge of stress in the war conditions they are forced to live in.” While the site could look much better, I think it’s worth viewing as an example of a more elaborate use of the web as a creative space.
Posted by Alicia M Baird
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PhotoStory
Hey Guys-
Photo Story is a project that blends story telling and photography, in an attempt to ‘personalize our common human experience.’
Its pretty self-explanatory, and worth checking out. Also an example of web-organization of a project somewhat similar to ours (photos, text, stories, etc).
Posted by Natalie R Olczak