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		<title>searching for eldorado</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 yrs) from that community to create a picture portrait of their community using digital photography. As the project website says, &#8220;the primary aim of the project was not to teach the participants photographic or digital skills, although they undoubtedly learnt much about these areas, to which the majority had not been previously exposed. The basis of the project was a series of group discussions about the community and the places, people and things within it that were important to the young people involved. Within these discussions ideas about representation and self-representation were raised and the dominant media image of Eldorado, and other marginalised communities, as relentlessly violent and hopeless brought into question.&#8221; Utilising the power of citizen journalism which digital cameras and the distribution tool that is the internet can provide this project is an example of the ways in which NGOs and other organisations seek to support alternative media representations of marginalised communities using participatory photography. The images from this project [...]]]></description>
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