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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... »
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 teens, photography by working class people, blind people… Of particular interest are the featured speakers... »
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 of my research about practices of collaborative ethnography through creative art involves talking to the... »
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... »
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 follow links to Project Galleries on the Side By Side blog). Side by Side Project Galleries... »
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... »
Youth learning and the arts -new research from Australia
Valuing arts and creative practices as pathways to learning – especially for young people – has more advocates in the USA than in Australia. My last post about the Neighborhood Story Project is an example of a project that has a partnership with a high school to engage young people in creative activity (in... »
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... »
Empowerment through participation in representation?
Most projects that set out to facilitate community participation in the creation of representations – be it for social justice advocacy; health and wellbeing; or cultural documentation – do so with a belief that participation in the making of representations about ones own community or culture can be empowering and re-construct power dynamics and... »