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UK

Rights! Cameras! Action! UK (2011)

Young people in the UK explore the relevance and importance of children’s rights through photography.

TPA Bursary Scheme (2011)

PhotoVoice is thrilled that fantastic charity The Photographic Angle are generously supporting six PhotoVoice project participants to continue developing their photographic skills through a bursary scheme set to launch before Christmas 2011.

Stories of the World: Geffrye Museum (2011)

PhotoVoice teamed up with the Geffrye Museum to deliver a course of five weekly digital workshops with the young people from the World’s End Estate, Chelsea in Re:generate trust facilities, to learn and develop their photography skills and techniques.

Lookout London (2011)

Young people in London join the debate about gangs and knife crime through photography.

Aiming High Photo Project, Cheshire East (2011)

Young disabled people give feedback about their experience of activities and services in Cheshire East through photography.

Having Our Say (2010)

Photography with young people at risk of or affected by sexual exploitation

Making the Change (2010)

Young disabled people across the North West explore what the transition from child to adult services means for them, informing improvements to services.

My City My World (2009)

From July 2009 PhotoVoice has been working in partnership with the Liverpool City Council (LCC) to deliver photographic workshops with young people across Liverpool to provide them with a new skill and a way to express their thoughts and aspirations to their families, peers and the public.

Moving Lives (2009)

PhotoVoice’s work with refugees continued in a new partnership with the British Refugee Council SMILE Project

Sights Unseen (2009 - 2010)

Sights Unseen built upon PhotoVoice’s previous project with blind and visually impaired people, Beyond Sight. Working with The Organisation of Blind Africans and Caribbeans (OBAC) in the UK, Sight of Emotion in Mexico, and One-Plus-One in China, Photovoice has been introducing blind and visually impaired people in all three countries to the concept of Sensory Photography.

UR in the Picture (2008 - 2009)

From October 2008 - August 2009, PhotoVoice ran weekly one-day workshops with three groups of mental health service users. The workshops brought together users of a variety of service providers, all of whom were taught to use the camera as a tool to explore their own lives and to express the things that are important to them to each other, their loved ones and to the wider public.

Photolife (2008)

Photolife worked with young people in Greenwich allowing them to share their thoughts, views and feelings about their local area and give voice to the challenges, concerns, hopes and fears in their lives.

Refugees Aloud (2007)

Funded by the Big Lottery Fund, The Young Refugees’ Media Project offers communication and media training to young refugees and asylum seekers - between the age 13 and 21 - to encourage them to participate in the public debate about the issues that concern them.

Young Parents Project (2007 - 2008)

The projected aimed to provide a forum through which the pariticipants could share their thoughts, views and feelings about being a young parent and use this as a basis for personal dialogue and understanding with their peers and community.

Nothing Special (2007 - 2008)

Through photographic workshops in the South East, South West, London, West Midlands and Yorkshire, PhotoVoice enabled nearly 50 participants to document and explore their identities as disabled young people. They wanted to focus especially on the issues around access and inclusion. A booklet of some of the work was produced to raise awareness of their concerns among policy makers, leisure providers and the public. The project culminated in regional exhibitions and an exhibition in London.

Beyond Sight (2007 - 2008)

Photography by blind and visually impaired people
In partnership with Sight of Emotion and Pocklington Resource Centre

Moving Lives (2007)

Moving Lives is a photography and digital-storytelling project giving a voice to young refugees living in East London and helping them integrate into the UK.

New Londoners (2006 - 2008)

New Londoners is a partnership project between PhotoVoice and Dost, which aims to help young separated refugees settle and integrate into the UK.

Mental Wealth (2006)

In March 2005, PhotoVoice worked with United Response and a group of seven of their beneficiaries with mental health needs from UR services in Dorset, West Sussex and Kent. The aim of the project was to harness the power of photography as a creative medium, and to produce a set of images to communicate the reality of daily life from the perspective of a person with mental health needs.

On the Move - Voices from the Street (2003)

PhotoVoice volunteers took to the streets of London over the summer (2003), to offer weekly photography workshops to homeless people over the age of 25.