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Exhibition of Participatory Video by Palestinian Refugees
Side by Side Online Gallery is pleased to present the Stars of Bethlehem Exhibition. Stars of Bethlehem is a participatory video project that worked with young Palestinian refugees in camps in Bethlehem in 2007. This exhibition features 3 of the films made by young film makers during the project, representing their experiences and lives... »
Marie-Eve Leduc – Participatory Video Practitioner (Part 2)
In Part 2 on Marie-Eve Leduc’s work with Participatory Video and her 2007 work running a PV project with 6 Palestinian youths in Bethlehem, Marie-Eve talks about her motivations and approach to PV and reflects on how her own identity as foreign facilitator may have influenced the direction of the youth’s films, despite efforts... »
Marie-Eve Leduc – Participatory Video Practitioner (Part 1)
This is the first in what I hope will be a series about artists and practitioners who bring together collaborative ethnography and art. This first feature is about Participatory Video practitioner Marie-Eve Leduc. It is accompanied by an exhibition... »
Participatory Video Handbook
For those interested in practical tools to help undertake Participatory Video projects, you can download a free 129 page handbook on using Participatory Video in the field made by InsightShare, an organisation experienced in using Participatory Video in diverse... »
PhotoVoice Charity turns 10 years old
Interested in global movements in participatory photography? Check out the newsletter from PhotoVoice marking their 10 year anniversary… »
Online images from “Places I Carry With Me” exhibition
For those of you interested in seeing works from my recent exhibition at ANCA Gallery in Canberra, Australia, but couldn’t make it in person, there are now a selection of images from the show on display in the Side... »
searching for eldorado
In the growing tradition of using participatory photography as a tool in the empowerment of marginalised young people, the searching for eldorado project (procurando eldorado in Portugues), which happened in Sao Paolo, Brazil in 2004/05, got young people (10-18... »
More on digital storytelling…
On the theme of digital stories (see previous post) I realised that I have not posted anything about some of the foundation organisations of the digital storytelling movement- for example the Center for Digital Storytelling in Berkley California which... »
Digital Stories about experiences of mental illness
Launched this week at the National Film and Sound Archive in Canberra, Australia was a series of short films (digital stories) made by people who have experienced mental illness about their paths to recovery. They have been posted on... »
Pinhole photography from Chiapas
Check out recent work from 3 Indigenous women photographers who have been participating in a pinhole photography workshop with Rachel Sokal, new employee of AFI/CPP…. click here to see a taster of an upcoming pinhole exhibition they are putting... »
Maya’s exhibition in Canberra, Australia
Opening today at ANCA Gallery, Rosevear St, Dickson in Canberra, Australia, is a solo exhibition of photographic and other works by Maya. Featuring works made in Japan, Mexico, Louisiana USA and various parts of Australia this is the first... »