PhotoVoice Newsletter May 2008

Change the Picture - exhibition and advocacy campaign

Exhibition: 14th July, Baltic Restaurant, 74 Blackfriars Road, London, SE1 8HA

PhotoVoice has embarked on its first postcard advocacy campaign using images and stories taken by sex workers and vulnerable women in the East End of London. Drawing attention to the hopes, dreams and realities of their life, the campaign will culminate in an exhibition bringing together policy makers, representatives from the justice department and service providers.

For more information or to view postcards please go to www.changethepicture.org.uk
Or email April Coetzee: april@photovoice.org

PhotoVoice images exhibited at LIDC

An exhibition of thirty five photographs taken by PhotoVoice trained grassroots photographers is being exhibited in the offices of the London International Development Centre (LIDC), Euston. The offices will be officially opened on Tuesday 3rd June by Princess Anne.

Founded in 2008 to tackle the complex problems of international development, and supported by start-up funding from the UK Government, LIDC is a collaboration between The Bloomsbury Colleges; all members of the University of London. The Centre aims to approach development issues from an inter-disciplinary perspective, drawing from research disciplines as varied as sociology, economics, pharmacy, law, veterinary medicine, politics and education.

For more information about LIDC visit www.bloomsbury.ac.uk/idc

Beyond Sight touring exhibition
Photography by blind and visually impaired people in the UK and Mexico

Work by photographers trained as part of PhotoVoice's project with blind and visually impaired people, in partnership with Sight of Emotion, is currently touring the UK as part of an interactive, multi-sensory exhibition in order to challenge widespread assumptions about the limitations of photography, and to promote dialogue between the seeing world and the visually impaired community.

The interactive exhibition will be displayed in the following locations around the UK:
Windermere, Weston-Super-Mare, Bognor Regis, Teignmouth, Birmingham and Cardiff

For more information about the project and exhibition venues click here

New Londoners book

As part of its UK-based project Moving Lives, PhotoVoice is working with Trolley Books to put together a collection of photographs and writing by young separated refugees who have been mentored by emerging and established photographers. The book, New Londoners: Reflections on Home will be available in Autumn 2008.

Click here for more information about the project.

Side-by-Side participant visit, Summer 2008

In August 2008 PhotoVioce hopes to host teenagers from both Palestine and Israel who took part in the Side-by-Side photographic dialogue project in 2007, work from which was recently exhibited at The Economist Plaza in London. The trip will further awareness of peace-building initiatives in the Middle East, promote dialogue between Jewish and Muslim groups, and generate further press and media attention about the project in order to portray an alternative and more hopeful perspective on the Israeli / Palestinian situation. As a centrepiece to their trip, work from the Side-by-Side project will again be displayed for a press-targeted event to allow these objectives to be met.

As a result of this unique opportunity to travel to the UK, the young people will have the opportunity to make new friends with children from another culture, while providing the opportunity for UK school children and other youth groups to learn about the Middle East conflict directly from those affected by it.

For more information click here