Two websites/blogs that folks with a specific interest in participatory photography might want to take a look at… The Institute for Photographic Empowerment aims to support the study and practice of participant–produced documentary projects in photography, film, and digital media. They are affiliated with Venice Arts Centre and USC Annenberg in Los Angeles. Check out... »
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Big Stories, Small Towns
On the theme of documentary made in close collaboration with communities check out the Big Stories, Small Towns project that happened in Port Augusta, South Australia. Two experienced film makers lived and worked in Port Augusta for several months in 2008, producing a series of films about community stories. The material is only available online... »
Challenge for Change and NFB Filmmaker in Residence Program
One of the projects that broke new ground for movements in participatory & social-change film-making was the Challenge for Change program. Created by the Canadian National Film Board in 1967, it ran until 1980 and resulted in over 140 films being made as collaborations between filmmakers and Canadian communities. The Challenge for Change program... »
Fictionalised Reality – new works by Urban Theatre Projects
Urban Theatre Projects (UTP), originally founded as Death Defying Theatre (way back in the ‘80’s) is a professional theatre company based in Bankstown (Sydney, NSW). Their tag line is ‘Stories of Contemporary Life‘ and they make new theatre works... »
Facing Diversity Conference: Leveling the Field in Photographic Arts
The Society for Photographic Education is hosting its annual conference in Philadelphia, USA, in March 2010 with a focus on diversity in photographic practice. Sessions will include discussion by photographers and educators about collaboration, photography & film making with... »
Creative means to communicate science
One of the things I am preoccupied with are the ways in which we use creative forms to communicate about things that are traditionally held within academia and presented in academic style. I am interested in the mixing of... »
Some inspiration on doing creative work
Because its the holiday season, and we have all made it to the end of another year and many are feeling tired and perhaps even burntout, check out this video by Elizabeth Gilbert about nurturing your creativity . A part... »
Detroit Summer & the Allied Media Conference
While I was in New Orleans I had the opportunity to meet DJ Invinsible (see her company emergence music for insight into independant hip hop world), who was doing some media training for the new young writers at the... »
Therapeutic Photography Resource
The Photo Voice network, based in the UK, has been a force in participatory photography for many years. Bearing the same name as the photovoice method which has been widely used in health and other social research (See WANG, C.... »
Cameras for community in New Orleans
Since Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and the slow process of rebuilding has progressed, a number of new collaborative media making projects have gotten underway around the city. The New Orleans Kid Camera Project started in 2006 when Joanna Rosenthal... »
Exhibition from the Chiapas Photography Project & Archivo Fotográfico Indígena
Side by Side Gallery is proud to present an exhibition from the Chiapas Photography Project (CPP) and the Archivo Fotográfico Indígena (AFI) – Chiapas, Mexico. Visit Side by Side Gallery – CPP/AFI exhibition to view the online exhibition (or... »
Ethnography through Art
December ‘09 brings to fruition two exhibitions about the interesections of ethnographic and art making practices. In Philidelphia USA, Ethnographic Terminalia opens on December 4th at the Metafactory, and on the other side of the Pacific ocean Interventions – experiments... »