in the gallery...
USA
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 Neighborhood Story Project who were about to launch their books. She is a very cool... »
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 & Cat Malovic, both trained as social workers, were looking for a way to engage... »
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 between art and ethnography is being held from 9 to 11 December at Macquarie University... »
Documenting the New Orleans Now
This coming Thursday (December 10th 2009) in the Casino Building in City Park, New Orleans, the Neighborhood Story Project will be launching 4 new books written by students (and one recent graduate) of John McDonogh Senior High School. These books have been 2 1/2 years in the making and tell the stories of New... »
The Neighborhood Story Project
If you don’t yet know about the Neighborhood Story Project (NSP) – then this blog post is for you. Based in New Orleans Lousianna, NSP is a project at the intersection of education, collaborative anthropology, community development and the making of locally relevant literature. Their own self-description is: “through writing, interviews, and photograph, neighborhood writers... »
Have You Heard … the movement
The talented and busy Eve Tulbert, and her collaborator Prof. Eric Rice have been super busy this north american summer (‘09) working on the Have You Heard project, or movement… I last wrote about Eve back in July, introducing her and the collaborative media for health work with LA street kids and other young people,... »
Women’s stories in women’s words (and pictures…)
In 2008 I collaborated with Rachel Breunlin from the Neighborhood Story Project (based in New Orleans, Louisiana USA) and Jalaris Aboriginal Corporation (based in Derby, Western Australia) on a collaborative writing and photography project which resulted in the book Singing Out – Aboriginal Ladies Stories of the North West Kimberley. The project aimed at documenting... »
Eve Tulbert & collaborative media for health in LA
We arrived in San Diego as our first stop on our grand tour in North America, to spend 10 days in Southern California. The San Diego visit was mainly chance to get over the jetlag and get my bearings before heading to Mexico, but California is also home to a number of organisations dedicated... »