This year PhotoVoice presents a unique opportunity to gain an insight to three incredibly different, yet personal and unconventional approaches to documentary photography from today’s most cutting edge photographers. Please click the links below to find out more.

May 19th – Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin

June 11th – Simon Norfolk

October 6th – Tom Stoddart

For more information and to book tickets please click here

PhotoVoice, in partnership with United Response, has been running photography workshops with mental health service users in West Sussex over the past few months. The results have been fantastic, and on Monday 27th April an exhibition showcasing some of the work was launched at DJ’s (formerly Paradise Med), 71 High Street, Bognor Regis. Visitors braved the rain to pack out the venue for the launch, which was attended by many of the photographers whose work is on show.

The project will result in a larger exhibition at the OXO Gallery on Southbank, London running from 6-12th July, and a new title in the PhotoVoice Methodology Series focusing on photography as a therapeutic tool for mental health service users.

For more information about the project click here

Beyond Vision Exhibition

Photographs by street-involved children in Ecuador trained by PhotoVoice through the Beyond Vision project went on display at the offices of Insight Investment at the beginning of April. Insight Investment have generously funded the Beyond Vision project for three years, and the young people generated work for the exhibition that explored the ‘hidden beauty’ of nature surviving amidst the urban jungle of Guyaquil.

Click here to view the online exhibition

Click here for more information about Beyond Vision

PhotoVoice, in partnership with Mexican NGO Sight of Emotion, has launched the first phase of a new project working with blind and visually impaired people. Workshops in South London began on the 21st April, training users of services at OBAC (Organisation of Blind African and Caribbeans) in how to use digital cameras as a tool for creative expression and communication. Workshops were led by a team of PhotoVoice facilitators, including several participants from 2007 project with blind and visually impaired people in the UK, Beyond Sight.

For more information click here

PhotoVoice is a small charity, and every new friend who chooses to support us makes a valuable contribution to the success of existing and new projects. We are exceptionally proud of the support we have built through our Friends’ scheme and to demonstrate our thanks, we have re-launched the scheme with more benefits. This month Friends can enjoy discounts on the PhotoVoice Lecture Series and 25% discount on New Londoners: Reflections on Home publication.

To see how you can become a Friend of PhotoVoice please click here

The PhotoVoice Network website has now been officially relaunched, providing online resources, services and discussion forums for active practitioners in the field of participatory photography. With over 150 members with a hugely diverse range of projects and experience, this powerful website will allow PhotoVoice and Network Members alike to benefit from learning and best practice gathered from those pioneering new uses of this versatile and exciting methodology to improve lives and bring about positive social change.

Visit the PhotoVoice Network: www.photovoicenetwork.org
(Access to certain areas of the site restricted to members)

PhotoVoice launches Statement of Ethical Practice

PhotoVoice is committed to encouraging and developing responsible practice around participatory photography methodology through sharing learning, creating resources, measuring impact and promoting dialogue, debate and reflection on practice.  To this end PhotoVoice has developed a Statement of Ethical Practice, built upon extensive research and drawing upon consultation and advice from project partners, external experts, staff and facilitators, and PhotoVoice Network members.

Click here to read the statement

If you can’t wait three months until the next newsletter from PhotoVoice you can now keep update to date with what we are doing on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube!

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PhotoVoice supporters make a huge impact on our work and without your kind donations we would not be able to continue our projects with marginalized communities. We would like to say a huge thank you to following individuals and organisations:

Photographer Tim Ashley has raised over £2,000 for PhotoVoice, so far, by donating all the proceeds from the sale of prints from his Lyonesse series. To see Tim’s work please click here: www.timashley.com

The Peter Bailey Company held an online print auction raising £1025

The Arts Show, held at The Art Club on Dover Street raised over £4,000 for charity, of which PhotoVoice received £661

PhotoVoice would also like to thank James and Sarah Henderson and Sue Ubago who collected £541 in memory of their father and partner Gordon Henderson.