PhotoVoice Newsletter October 2007
Martin Parr: Photobiography
Tuesday 13 November 2007, 7pm, Royal Geographical Society, London
Celebrated photographer Martin Parr will conclude the Magnum Photographers Lecture Series with fascinating insights into the influences and attitudes that have shaped his provocative photographic style.
Limited tickets available: to book click here or call 020 7033 3878
PhotoVoice Auction of Exceptional Photographs
27 November, Reuters, London
100 images donated by world-renowned photographers, will be auctioned in London in support of PhotoVoice’s pioneering projects. Contributors include Robert Doisneau, Jacques Henri Lartigue, George Rodger, Philip Jones Griffiths, Jillian Edelstein, Marc Riboud, Nadav Kander, Nick Danziger, Sarah Moon.
For more information click here
Moving Lives participant's work exhibited
October 27th - November 12th, Olivier Gallery, National Theatre, London
A series of images taken by Hassan Almousy, a participant in Moving Lives, PhotoVoice’s project with young separated refugees, are going on display for two weeks at the Olivier Gallery at the National Theatre, London. The photos are featuring as part of an exhibition which celebrates 15 years of Deutsche Bank’s Pyramid Awards.
For more information email liz@photovoice.org
Beyond Sight: Photography by blind and visually impaired people
3 – 7 December, Association of Photographers, London
Images by groups trained by PhotoVoice and the Mexican NGO Sight of Emotion will be exhibited alongside work by renowned blind photographers, Gerando Nigenda and Evgen Bavcar. The exhibition will celebrate the possibilities of photography; a medium traditionally regarded as the domain of the seeing, and will challenge our conventional understanding of visual communication and of what it means to ‘see’. Through using audio descriptions and tactile relief images, the exhibition will be accessible to all, furthering our awareness of the relationships between vision, blindness, sensory experience and imagery.
For more information click here
The PhotoVoice Manual
A guide to designing and running participatory photography projects will be published in October 2007, priced at just £25. This 130pp A5 spiral-bound book has been produced in response to the many enquiries we received at PhotoVoice requesting advice on how to set up and run participatory photography projects. The manual is targeted at existing practitioners of participatory photography as well as photographers, community arts practitioners, NGO’s and freelance project facilitators who are interested in gaining new insights and tips into how to empower marginalised groups through photography. The manual also includes a DVD showcasing slideshows and digital stories from PhotoVoice projects as well as a downloadable pdf exhibition.
To be notified when the manual is available for purchase, please email april@photovoice.org with MANUAL in the subject heading.
Thanks to a grant from Media Box, PhotoVoice is working in partnership with Kids (www.kids.org.uk) to deliver a national participatory photography and self advocacy project with disabled youth. Young people from around the UK will use photography to explore issues of identity, disability, access and inclusion. Their images will be shared online, through regional and national exhibitions, a national publication and a travelling road show and will target general audiences and policy makers raising awareness of the issues facing young disable people.
For more information click here
PhotoVoice facilitators participating in Disability Equality training prior to the start of workshops
Children’s Forum, Nepal
PhotoVoice is working in collaboration with the Bhutanese Refugee Support Group to launch a new website www.bhutaneserefugees.com to raise awareness of the plight of Bhutanese refugees and to advocate for a just resolution to the refugee crisis. The website will explore why one sixth of the population was forced to leave Bhutan in the early 1990s, where those people ended up and how they live now – and will incorporate images from The Children’s Forum, a PhotoVoice project that allows young people to express their hopes and fears through photography, art and writing. The website is also accompanied by a booklet.
For more information click here
To order the booklet click here
Side-by-Side, Israel / Palestine
An exhibition of captioned photographs by participants in PhotoVoice's Side-by-Side project, PhotoVoice's project with Israeli and Palestinian teenagers, opens in Jerusalem on Sunday 21st October 2007. The exhibition is taking place in the Willy Brandt Centre, and aims to stimulate constructive dialogue between young people caught up in the ongoing conflict.
For more information email anna@photovoice.org
New PhotoVoice Staff
Shailesh Kataria, Managing Director
Shailesh has wide ranging experience of leading strategic change and organisational development in humanitarian and rights based development and campaigning programmes – with exciting experiences with Article 19, Gaia, Goal, Red Cross, Save the Children and various local civil society organisations in Asia, Latin America and Europe. He has a keen interest in the environment, international trade and children’s rights. He volunteers on the board of a local conservation group and his kids’ school PTA. Shailesh’s strong interest in organisational strengthening and facilitating increased local participation and minority voices has led him to PhotoVoice and the huge potential of this innovative methodology.
April Coetzee, Projects Manager
On graduating from University April worked as a volunteer for three years in Nigeria and an Education Advisor with a consortium of primary schools. Having been bitten by the development bug a Masters in Theatre for Development followed, and then work in South Africa and Sri Lanka. Back in the UK she developed and managed a participatory Theatre project with young offenders and later a national project by the Youth Justice Board as an alternative to custody. Further consultation work in the UK using Theatre for Development as a tool to explore Sex and Relationship issues with young people was followed by a year in Vanuatu with VSO working on a whole variety of projects including HIV peer education with the Ministry of Heath and participatory organisational learning.
Annual Accounts and Report
PhotoVoice’s annual accounts and report for the period ending March 2007 are now available on our website.
Click here to view online
Renaissance: Photographic Competition in aid of the Lavender Trust at Breast Cancer Care
10 September – 10 December
Theme: Renaissance - Seeing the World through New Eyes
Prizes: Over £2,000 or prizes including an exciting African safari in the Masai Mara, photographic equipment and the chance to exhibit and sell your work at Proud Galleries, London
Judges: Eamonn McCabe, KT Tunstall, Mary McCartney, Sara Crema
For details of the competition and to enter visit www.renaissancephotography.org
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