Jane
PhotoVoice Programme Manager
...is responsible for designing, managing and delivering PhotoVoice’s projects around the world. She joined PhotoVoice in 2009 after living and working in arts and international development in Cambodia for ten years.
Jane on How We See It
This project really changed the way that I perceived young people too. I thought that I wasn’t biased against young people and then realised that I too would get scared seeing groups of young people around Hackney. I think the real crime is that society is failing so many young people. They just need a break, and Fairbridge gives them that.
Jane on media representations of young people.
It’s really biased! Coverage of young people seems to focus on hoodie-wearing, knife-carrying, gun-toting, gang-banging, skunk-smoking and binge-drinking. It does no good for anyone – the young people who are being demonised, and the people who see it and think they’re not safe on the streets anymore.
PhotoVoice is registered charity no. 1096958. Fairbridge is registered charity no. 206807