PICS - “Engaging, interactive, friendly, inspiring”
Posted 22 May 2012
Photographic Images Changing Society - or PICS Festival - opened its doors on 19th May, bringing together photographers, journalists, development organisations and people passionate about photography and the role it can play in changing society for the better.
It was the first edition of what we hope will become an annual event - and it turned out to be a resounding success!
Left: PICS 2012 keynote panel debate featuring Stephen Sidlo, kennardphillips, Matt Daw, Ivor Prickett and Joseph Cabon. Right: One of the “open table” discussions.
Photographic Images Changing Society - or PICS Festival - opened its doors on 19th May at 11am, bringing together photographers, journalists, development organisations and people passionate about photography and the role it can play in changing society for the better.
Throughout the whole day, the Hub Westminster that hosted the event was filled to the brim and those who attended shared ideas, opinions, and positive energy thanks to a varied programme of talks, exhibitions and multimedia screenings (the latter managed by our great new Projects intern, Kristian)
We prepared lots of practical and participatory activities, including 45-minute long “open table” discussions chaired, among others, strong>Russell Watkins, photo editor of DFID UK, who wrote about the festival on his very interesting blog http://developingpictures.wordpress.com Forme.r Sky Digital News Editor Neal Mann and UNICEF Executive Director Tony Lake, were also in attendance.
Many enjoyed the workshops exploring three aspects of participatory photography: Visual Literacy led by photojournalist Jenny Matthews; Sensory Photography hosted by PhotoVoice’s Clare Struthers and Fotosynthesis’s Ingrid Guyon; and Text and Captioning by PhotoVoice project facilitators Glynis Shaw and Adam Lee.
The highlight of the day came in the afternoon with the key panel debate on the subject that has become PICS 2012’s headline: What role does ‘truth’ play in photography for social change?
Watch this space as we will be posting a video summary from the panel soon!
Great atmosphere, lots of interesting conversations and a positive buzz coming from the sharing of knowledge and opinions - thank you all for the amazing feedback on the festival!
A HUGE thank you to Globalnet21 and Photovoice! What a blooming marvellous event! Everyone I spoke to was positive and inspirational, focusing on change rather than problems. Special thanks to Francis, Christina and Matt for organising. I REALLY enjoyed the “Introduction to Sensory Photography - Photography Without Sight (with PhotoVoice and blind photographer Gary Waite)”, even though Gary, the main attraction had suddenly been whisked off to Devon on the day! But the two ladies holding it were amazing and it was great to get a feel of “blind photography”! I thought the range of photos from the totally amateur to the professional were fascinating and thought-provoking. I thoroughly enjoyed the Panel Debate too, and it made me open up a lot more. So much appreciation to all who hosted and took part today.
Lucinda Randolph
An interesting combination of displays, projections, discussions and workshops expressing particular views and interpreted in ways I might not have expected. I felt I had spent my time well and hope I was able to contribute.
Terence Freedman
BIG thank you to all who helped organise the festival - it wouldn’t be possible without you! And to those who attended - we do hope to see you again at one of the upcoming PhotoVoice events. To stay updated with the latest news subscribe to our bi-monthly newsletter!
‘Voice of Freedom’ at The French Institute
Posted 20 May 2012
17th May saw host to a very moving evening organised by PhotoVoice and René Cassin to raise awareness of modern slavery and human trafficking.
17th May saw host to a very moving evening organised by PhotoVoice and René Cassin to raise awareness of modern slavery and funds for our Voice of Freedom project, helping trafficked women in Israel.
The exhibition included work from the PhotoVoice project See It Our Way around the same theme, that took place in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Marjin Alders showcased her documentary photos of trafficked women, living in Israel as refugees.
It also featured images of Red Light Campaign, that “use a fine art approach to create concept driven photographs to describe the suffering caused by human trafficking”.
Author Leila Segal, the initiator of the Voice of Freedom project, gave a very emotional reading of her work entitled Shelter – a collection of interviews with African women trafficked to Israel “that suffered extreme physical and emotional deprivation on the way.”
My writing is an attempt to give voice to some of their stories, and to speak into the silence that surrounds these crimes, explains Leila.
There will soon be a website dedicated exclusively to the Voice of Freedom project – so watch this space! In the meantime, you can help make the project a reality by giving as much or little as you can afford - donate here (quote ‘Voice of Freedom’ in the message box to have your donation restricted to this project).
Picture That! Exhibition - Bromley
Posted 17 May 2012
An exhibition showcasing the amazing work of Picture That! participants opened on 12 May at the Hawes Down Centre in Bromley.
The exhibition is the culmination of the two editions of photography workshops that took place in Bromley in February and April, working with young people with Autism and Aspergers.
Many of the Picture That! participants, together with their families and friends, joined us for the opening of the exhibition. It features the images taken throughout the workshop, accompanied by the participants’ personal statements, and a Fantasy Portrait photomontage, where they expressed who they want to be in the future, or how they view themselves.
We will keep an eye out for any future courses, I’m sure Sam would enjoy learning some more photography skills. He is much more comfortable expressing himself through a camera than he is talking, in fact he has often opted to photograph events in situations where he would otherwise feel uncomfortable. Thanks for giving him the opportunity.
Sarah Hayward
Picture That! is a set of photography workshops working with young people with Autism and Aspergers, designed to create a fun space where they could learn new photographic skills whilst building their self confidence. The participants, aged between 12 and 15, explored the theme of self-identity and children’s rights through a variety of activities.
The Picture That! exhibition will remain at the Hawes Down Centre indefinitely, so pop in for a look if you’re passing!
Hawes Down Centre
Hawes Down Lane
West Wickham
Kent
BR4 9AE
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PICS Festival 2012 -special edition newspaper
Posted 15 May 2012
Only 4 days left to the PICS Festival 2012 on 19 May! We have released a special edition newspaper to celebrate the event - in collaboration with Uncertain States.
You can find the PICS newspaper in the new issue of the quarterly Uncertain States, produced by an art collective of the same name, aiming “to expand a critical dialogue and promote visual imagery”.
The PICS Festival special edition newspaper features over 30 projects to be showcased this Saturday, 19 May at Hub Westminster in London, including Ministry of Untold Stories, Ania Dabrowska’s Mind over Matter, Simon Norfolk’s Photographs from the War in Afghanistan, Kick HIV Stigma Out, and many more.
Find the preview of the featured projects here: http://bit.ly/PICSpreview
If you want to support our free festival and get a copy of the newspaper - please donate £3 or more to http://bit.ly/picsdonate
Great evening with Peter Marlow as part of PhotoVoice Lecture Series!
Event date 30 April 2012
Another edition of PhotoVoice Lecture Series - that took place at Kings Place on 30th April - featured the work of Peter Marlow, one of Britain’s most acclaimed photojournalists.
Another edition of PhotoVoice Lecture Series - that took place at Kings Place on 30th April - featured the work of Peter Marlow, one of Britain’s most acclaimed photojournalists.
It was a great evening full of stories behind some of the most iconic photographs and an overview of an impressive career - from joining the Magnum Photos in 1980, through his work in on contemporary British life in Liverpool, to the current project on the naves of England’s 42 cathedrals. The latter turned into a book and the pictures were used in a series of stamps.
Big thanks to Peter Marlow for the wonderful talk and to all of you who came - stay tuned for the next edition coming up in autumn!
Peter Marlow studied psychology at Manchester University, graduating in 1974. He then started his career as an international photojournalist - he joined Magnum Photos in 1980, becoming a full member in 1986.
Despite travelling widely in his early career, Marlow’s major projects have often been concerned with contemporary British life such as his 1993 project Liverpool - Looking out to Sea (Jonathan Cape), the culmination of a six-year project photographing the city, and a book regarded by many as the defining work on Britain under Mrs Thatcher. Marlow spends time with his subjects, alone, with no assistants, often using only one camera, allowing the pictures to evolve rather than directing his subjects. In recent years, he has worked more extensively in colour and concentrated on his exploration of the physical and personal landscape.
“Trafficked women - speak into the silence”, 17th May
Event date 17 May 2012
Join PhotoVoice & Red Light Campaign and author Leila Segal for an exhibition on modern slavery at the French Institute, London on 17th May.
Did you know that there is evidence of slavery on most UK high streets? It takes many forms, but regardless of its shape slavery causes suffering wherever it occurs.
Please join us for a private viewing of an exhibition featuring photography by PhotoVoice & Red Light Campaign and a reading of work by author Leila Segal on the subject of modern slavery.
This is a donation-only event: donations can be made at the door or at our Virgin Money Giving Page (quote ‘Voice of Freedom’ in the message box). Suggested donation is £18, but please feel free to give as much or little as you can afford.
All proceeds will benefit Voice of Freedom, a participatory photography project for formerly enslaved women produced by René Cassin, in partnership with PhotoVoice and writer/photographer Leila Segal.
The project provides cameras to women who have been victims of trafficking, empowering them to document their lives, feelings and experiences on film, and supporting them to create text in their own words to accompany the images. The project is exhibited in the UK and Israel, to raise awareness of modern slavery and of the responsibility of individuals in society to play their part in eradicating it.
What: Artistic exhibition on modern slavery - a private viewing with refreshments and drinks
When: Thursday, 17 May 2012, 7-10pm (reading to be performed at 8:30pm)
Where: Médiathèque (2nd floor), The French Institute, 17 Queensbury Place, London, SW7 2DT. See map
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Picture That! Exhibition - Saturday 12th May, 11am
Posted 04 May 2012
Come join us for the Picture That! Exhibition, to celebrate the work of young people with Autism.
Hawes Down Centre
Hawes Lane
West Wickham
BR4 9AE
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Foto8 Summershow Deadline is tomorrow - May 15th!
Posted 04 May 2012
The 5th Annual Foto8 Summershow is in its final stages of accepting entries for the 2012 exhbition. Hurry and send in your 3 best images to participate in the celebrated mass exhbition at Foto8 gallery in London and be in with a chance of taking the title of Best in Show with a cash award of £2000!
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Rights! Cameras! Action! Free drinks reception TONIGHT!
Posted 03 May 2012
Come along to our FREE drinks reception and private view of our children’s rights exhibition at the Underground Gallery in Charing Cross.
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PICS Festival 2012 - Photographic Images Changing Society
Event date 19 May 2012
Saturday, 19th May 2012 PhotoVoice and Globalnet21 will collaborate to present the PICS Festival, celebrating the role that photography can play in changing society for the better.
When?
Saturday 19th May 2012, 11am – 5pm
Where?
The Hub Westminster, 1st Floor, New Zealand House,
80 Haymarket, London SW1Y 4TE
T: 0207 1486 720
E: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
http://hubwestminster.net/
Entrance free, but places must be reserved. Sign up here: http://bit.ly/picssignup
Preview the featured projects here! http://bit.ly/PICSpreview
This event is free to attend, non-profit-making, and organised and staffed by volunteers. Please help us maximise the impact of the festival by making a small donation, so that we can produce a special edition newspaper showcasing and celebrating all the projects brought together for this day, as a lasting testament and celebration of the versatility of photography as a tool for social change. www.virginmoneygiving.com/team/PICS2012
This one-day festival will feature a photographic exhibition showcasing the output of a variety of projects by organisations and individuals that aim to bring about positive social change through photography, alongside a programme of talks, panel discussions and workshops (including Sensory Photography and Visual Literacy). The festival will feature examples of photojournalism, participatory photography, citizen journalism and sensory photography, among others.
PICS is delighted to announce a partnership with London Photo Festival, running in Borough from 16th - 19th May 2012. Sign up for their talk with Giles Duley and Christina Santa Anna on 17th May - http://www.londonphotofestival.org/photo-talks-may-2012
Keynote Panel Debate - 2.30pm
What role does ‘truth’ play in photography for social change?
Matt Daw, Projects Manager, PhotoVoice (Chair)
Ivor Prickett, photographer
KennardPhillips, photo activist
Stephen Sidlo, Demotix
Joseph Cabon, Senior Photo Editor and Photographer, Christian Aid
Free Workshops
Places limited. To sign up in advance and guarantee a place, email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
11.30 - 12.15: Reading Photographs – Visual Literacy (With photojournalist Jenny Matthews - www.jennymphoto.com)
12.30 - 13.15: An Introduction to Sensory Photography - Photography Without Sight (with PhotoVoice and blind photographer Gary Waite)
13.30 - 14.15: Text and Photographs: The Role of Captions (With Glynis Shaw and Adam Lee)
Open Table Discussion Forum
Drop in and out of these discussions of current questions concerning the use of photography as a tool for social change, learning more about the issues and meeting people with different experience and skills in various fields. No need to book.
Session 1: 12 - 12.45
1. Image manipulation – when is it acceptable, if ever?
2. Accountability – when and why is it important and how can it be assured?
3. Are those affected by an issue the best people to document it?
Session 2: 13.30 - 14.15
1. Exposing truth or exploiting the powerless? What are the ethical issues around representation?
2. Image fatigue – fact or myth?
3. Citizen journalism vs professional photography – do they have different roles?
Multimedia Screenings (main conference room)
11.15 - Roma in Italy, by Maurizio Cimino
11.30 - Gays in the Military: How America Thanked Me, by Vincent Cianni
11.45 - Suil Eile - ‘After you bought me’ (photography by trafficked women in India)
12.00 - Eyes of Youth: a short documentary film about a community engagement PhotoVoice project in Albania
12.30 - ReFocus: Participatory photography with young people in Syria
12.45 - Migrant Resource Centre Showcase (results from podcasting and photography workshops)
13.00 - Burke & Norfolk, Afghanistan: A short film documenting Simon Norfolk’s new work in Afghanistan
Use #PICSFest 2012 to keep track of related and associated events on Twitter, or to highlight your own website, project or event related to photography for social change.
Who?
PICS Festival is a collaboration between PhotoVoice and a debate platform GlobalNet21.
GlobaNet21 has developed over four years to bring new audiences of people into discussions about 21st Century issues using social networks to make the initial contact. In this it has been very successful and gets good audiences for physical meetings and webinars, and has recently explored the use of podcasts and e-learning tools.
However, many marginalised and vulnerable people and groups have not always been connected to these discussions and debates and innovative ways need to be developed to reach out to them in an inclusive “public square”.
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CONGRATULATIONS Georgia our Marathon runner!
Posted 25 April 2012
HUGE thanks and congratulations to Georgia our Marathon runner who completed the course in a very impressive just over 4 hour time! She is less than £150 away from her target, so it’s still not too late to DONATE!
Street Collection Raises over £10,000!! THANK YOU to all involved!
Posted 22 April 2012
30 top street photographers have offered limited editions of their best work to raise money for PhotoVoice in an online sale between 11th and 2nd May.
View and buy prints at Street Collection website
Read the Interview with Gary Waite by photographer Annabel Williams
Posted 18 April 2012
Read the recent blog post by photographer Annabel Williams, about her interview with our very own project participant Gary Waite, and his experiences with sensory photography through the PhotoVoice project Sights Unseen.
Rights! Cameras! Action! Exhibition ‘kicks’ off!
Posted 17 April 2012
An exhibition to mark the Right Year for Children - a year of events and campaigns to mark 20 years since Britain’s adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, opened last week at the Underground gallery in Charing Cross.
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Last Wednesday, 11th April, the exhibition opened with a private view for the young people who’s work is on display, it is now open to the public until Thursday 10th May 2012, so please pop down to take a look for yourselves!
@ The Underground Gallery
In the underpass, Exit 9, Charing Cross Underground Station
Opening hours: Monday to Saturday 11am-5:30pm
Private lift available - call 0207 379 8828
PhotoVoice is also leading the Right Year for Children campaign & on 16 December 2011, children and young people marched to 10 Downing Street to deliver messages from thousands of children all over the country about why children’s rights are important to them. The hand-in marked the 20th anniversary of the UK’s adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
So the messages have been delivered and – we hope – the message heard, it’s now time for us to record what children said to the Prime Minister so that their messages can have the biggest possible impact over the course of the Right Year, so last Saturday 14th April, Right Year for Children members and PhotoVoice supporters spent the day sorting and recording the messages and illustrations sent in by young people at the Unicef offices, which are now also on display in the Underground Gallery - check out the flyer!
Duaa: “Children’s rights are important to me so that we have the same oportunity regardless of social situation, disability or economic background.”
Thomas: “Every child has the right to be happy”
Rhiannon: “Dear Mr Cameron, I think the UNCRC is good and clear. I support its aims.”
For more about the Rights! Cameras! Action! project and UNCRC, including free resources and lesson plans, visit: www.rightscamerasaction.org.uk
This exhibition has been generously supported by www.supersizeprint.co.uk
Auckland Festival of Photography - Crossing Borders Symposium
Event date 02 June 2012
Featuring PhotoVoice Projects Manager Matt Daw presenting See it Our Way.
Artists Alfredo Bini, Bruce Connew, Matt Daw, Nikki Denholm Theme Talking Culture Talking Culture Symposium’s theme for the 2012 Festival is ‘Crossing Borders’, an exploration through photography of the insidious underside of globalisation.
While the internationalisation of production and ‘free trade’ of goods, money, people and technology across borders has undoubtedly brought many benefits, the unequal economic power relations between countries means globalisation has also relied upon the exploitation of resources and people in developing nations for the benefit of the developed world. The duplicitous nature of globalisation is such that wealthy nations embrace internationalisation by welcoming inexpensively produced goods for consumption and cheap labour for jobs that can’t be filled, while on the other hand renouncing and making clear the boundaries and limits to internationalism through tough immigration laws for refugees and economic migrants seeking escape from conflict, oppression and poverty.
In addition, globalisation’s official crossing of borders of people and production is mirrored in and, according to Gargi Bhattachryya, dependent upon illicit networks of trafficked people, money, drugs and arms in a multi-million-dollar illegal economy. The ‘free trade’ ideal has become an “illogical and ideological obsession where market overrides any concern for human welfare or social impact”.
Our four presenters today will engage with the ‘crossing borders’ theme from a variety of approaches and nations. New Zealand ‘s Nicki Denholm has been a human rights photographer for 20 years and has documented drug trafficking prisoners in Bolivia and Peru, the migration of African refugees to New Zealand, and internally displaced people within the refugee camps of Northern Somalia. Italy’s Alfredo Bini has photographed African economic migrants crossing the Tenere Desert in a bid to make it to Europe. The UK’s Matt Daw, project manager for PhotoVoice will discuss See It Our Way, a photography project involving young people from Eastern Europe and the Middle East affected by sex and child labour trafficking. And New Zealand’s Bruce Connew discusses his photographs over 7 years of an Indo-Fijian community for Stopover - a story of migration.
Full programme for Auckland Festival of Photography
Where: Goodman Fielder Room, Aotea Center, Queen Street, Auckland
When: Saturday 2 June, 10:30 am to 4pm.
Picture That! is back!
Posted 12 April 2012
We are back in Bromley for another set of photography workshops working with young people with Autism and Aspergers.
We have been back in Bromley for another set of photography workshops working with young people with Autism and Aspergers.
We have just completed the second edition of Picture That!, four-day workshop (10-13 April 2012) in Bromley, working with young people with Autism and Aspergers. We had one aim - to create a fun space where they could learn new photographic skills whilst building their self confidence during their Easter break. The participants, aged between 12 and 15, explored the theme of self-identity and children’s rights through a variety of activities.
We would like to thank all of our participants for their incredible imaginations, our fantastic volunteers for their time and involvement and the very helpful staff at Hawes Down Centre, where the set of workshops were hosted.
“I really enjoyed doing the Bromley workshop, and learned a lot about myself in the process. I had never worked with children on the autistic spectrum before, so it was a challenge, but one that was well rewarded by interacting with the kids, seeing how much they got out of it, how well they worked together and what great photographs they were taking by the end of the week. Just the lovely goodbye they all gave me on the last day made it all so worthwhile, and I left on a real high! This is the first time I’ve worked with Photovoice, and it was a very valuable, rewarding experience, that I won’t forget.”
Millie Burton, PhotoVoice volunteer
We will be holding an exhibition at Hawes Dawn Centre featuring all work from the two Picture That! projects. It will be coming soon so watch this space!
Lookout London exhibition has moved to Dalston!
Event date 24 April 2012
The exhibition that showcases young people’s perspective on gang culture and knife crime, will stay at Dalston Library until the 14th of May.
The Lookout project provides young people (under 25) with the opportunity, the skills and the support to feed their perspectives into the debate on gangs and knife crime issues through photography.
When: 24th April - 14th May
Where: Dalston Library, 24-30 Dalston Lane, London, E8 3AZ. See map
Street Collection - an online sale of affordable street photography is OPEN!
Event date 11 April 2012
30 top street photographers have offered limited editions of their best work to raise money for PhotoVoice in an online sale between 11th and 25th April.
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Street Collection website
Street Photography has been enjoying an extraordinary renaissance in the last few years with a raft of dedicated publications, festivals, magazines and exhibitions. Now leading practitioners from across the world have come together to offer their work in an online sale to raise money for the charity PhotoVoice.
The Street Collection includes beautiful, dramatic, comic and moving images that capture the energy and idiosyncrasy of everyday life on streets across the globe. Over 350 prints will be available at just £100 each.
Participating photographers include: Nick Turpin, David Gibson, Maciej Dakowicz, Nils Jorgensen, Mark Alor Powell, Stephen McLaren, Mimi Mollica, Polly Braden and Johanna Neurath. The sale is curated by Sophie Howarth, co-author of Street Photography Now (Thames and Hudson, 2010).
Kevin McCullough, Director of PhotoVoice:
“We’ve been overwhelmed by the generosity of the global street photography community. They really recognise the importance of the work we do giving marginalised people who have typically just been the subject of photographs the opportunity to represent themselves through the images they create.”
Sophie Howarth, organiser of the sale and co-author of Street Photography Now:
“This is a unique opportunity for fans of street photography to buy original work by some of the biggest names in the genre for just £100. Many of the prints are well known images that have never previously been available for purchase, so we’re anticipating a bit of a rush when sales open. Several of the participating photographers have told me they are hoping to buy one anothers’ work, so I think they’ll be among the buyers too.”
Nick Turpin, participating photographer:
“The whole street photography community seems to have got behind this initiative and the quality of work that’s available is staggering. For me it’s both a great opportunity to make street photography affordable, and to show my support for the innovative and important work that PhotoVoice do broadening the base of people who feel empowered to express themselves through photography.”
Buyers will be able to view all the available photographs online at www.thestreetcollection.net from 4 April. Online sales open at 10am on 11 April.
Rights! Cameras! Action! exhibition in London
Event date 11 April 2012
Young People Explore Children’s Rights Through Photography
Rights! Cameras! Action! has engaged young people all over the UK in exploring the relevance of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child to their lives. Opens April 11th @Underground Gallery, London.
An exhibition to mark the Right Year for Children (http://www.ry4c.org.uk) - a year of events and campaigns to mark 20 years since Britain’s adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Wednesday 11th April - Thursday 10th May 2012
Opening hours: Monday to Saturday 11am-5:30pm
Private View and Right Year for Children reception:
Thursday 3rd May 2012, 5pm - 8pm
@ The Underground Gallery
In the underpass, Exit 9, Charing Cross Underground Station
Private lift available - call 0207 379 8828
For more about the Rights! Cameras! Action! project and UNCRC, including free resources and lesson plans, visit: www.rightscamerasaction.org.uk
This exhibition has been generously supported by www.supersizeprint.co.uk
Citizen Journalism & Beacon Hubs - Extending the Public Square
Event date 28 March 2012
Projects Manager Matt Daw is speaking as part of the GlobalNet21 and Media Trust meeting on the subject of Citizen Journalism and Beacon Hubs on Wednesday 28th March 2012.
Fond farewell to Homerton Space Project!
Posted 22 March 2012
Last week, was a very sad week for fabulous charity, Chapter 1 who provides supported housing and much needed support for young vulnerable people, as their Homerton Space project came to an end as they know it.
Last week, was a very sad week for fabulous charity, Chapter 1 who provides supported housing and much needed emotional support for young vulnerable people, as their Homerton Space project came to an end as they know it.
Last year we partnered with Chapter 1, working with their young residents through our Lookout London project, engaging young people in the debate around gangs, gun and knife crime.
Due to local government spending cuts, the supported housing units in Hackney are having their services combined, meaning some staff are losing their jobs and many young people are being moved from their current homes into new hostels, seperating them from staff that have become like family to them. Last week I went along to the emotional farewell, organised for the staff and service users at Chapter 1’s Homerton Space project, who are affected by these changes.
Geoff Hawkins, Chief Executive, Chapter 1 explains the situation:
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I also spoke to a few of the residents to see how they were feeling about the changes.
Luke Richards-Wolfram, Resident, had this to say:
“These changes are kinda sad to be honest cos I’ve been here for almost a year now, it’s kinda like we’re losing family here, cos this place is not like most hostels, it’s creating a new family and community and stuff like that. Basically these changes are seperating everyone from each other and breaking up a family so its really sad, but in a way I suppose in life there’s always changes, so you just have to get used to it, that’s one side of it, but it’s still really sad though.”
As Luke says, change is an ineviatble part of life, but for these high risk vulnerable young people, change has always been their way of life and the Homerton Space project has been the first place to provide them with a sense of community, stability and family that they so desperately need.
Lilieth Martin, Project Director, has been at the project for 21 years:
“The project’s really special, the amount of young people who have been helped in the project is unbelievable. We really push education and encourage young people to find what they’re best at and just take it as far as they can, we’ve got young people who are good solid members of their community now, teachers, social workers and I look at that and think it’s been a really special time at the project.”
One of the central themes that kept arising was their frustration that their voices hadn’t been listened to when the local authorities were making these decisions that will ultimately affect their lives.
Echoed by the sentiments of Bianca Tennant, a long term resident:
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The main concern is that these cuts are short sighted, and will result in a negative sustained impact on not only the young people of the project but of the country. Only earlier this month, was a 17-year-old boy left in a critical condition after being stabbed on a bus in West Norwood, hours later, Kwame Ofosu-Asare, 17, from Catford, was stabbed to death by two youths in Brixton and Harry Potter actor, Jamie Waylett was recently jailed for gang violence during riots.
Geoff Hawkins:
“The dilemma is the quality of the support, here we’ve got a team who are based here 24/7, and yes there’s a cost to that but you’ve got to look at the outcome you achieve. You’ve got young people with high, complex needs, what’s going to happen when there aren’t people around? That’s a big issue, so you may save a few hundred quid here, but how much more are you going to end up spending in the criminal justice system, people might get into trouble here because of that lack of immediate intervention, without staff on site, seeing what’s going on and who can take action.”
Whatever the outcome, everyone here at PhotoVoice wishes the staff and young people all the best for the future, and long may the spirit of the Homerton Space Project continue! We will continue to support them throughout this transition through our Bursary Scheme, of which four of the residents are a part of, and beyond!
Clare Struthers
Projects Support
Photovoice welcomes Helen Cammock to the team!
Posted 19 March 2012
I’m Helen Cammock and I’ve just started as the new Project Manager for the PhotoVoice project Having Our Say 2.
I’m really looking forward to getting the project up and running – it’ll provide new challenges and having previously run a photography festival programme, it’ll be an exciting change to be working entirely on projects that focus on participatory practice.
Previous to running Brighton Photo Fringe I worked for 10 years in the public sector with families and young people on a number of different projects and initiatives, as well as working within statutory services. I continue in my role as chair of a foster panel and am committed to improving the services that Looked after Children are offered. I have always used photography on projects with adults, children and young people and have used participatory photography as a commissioned facilitator on different projects for the past 8 years. I have just completed an MA in Photography at the Royal College of Art.
What will I be working on?
Having Our Say 2 aims to offer young people at risk of sexual exploitation, (or those who have already experienced sexual exploitation) an opportunity to tell their stories through using photography, video, written/spoken word and music. Photovoice will be working in partnership with four support projects nationally who work directly with young people. The digital stories created by the young people on the project will both exhibited and developed into a training and support pack for workers in the services that young people access. We’ll be partnered by the National Working Group for Sexually Exploited Children and Young People who’s expertise will combine with the first hand knowledge of the young people involved to create a vital information and training tool for support service providers and workers.
Why participatory photography is important to me?
Participative arts practice is an incredibly powerful tool, enabling people to find a voice whilst developing new skills. It develops a sense of self advocacy and can build on previous routes of communication whilst also offering new ones. There is nothing more empowering than learning new skills whilst sharing your experiences in a safe environment – creative skills enable you to communicate both ideas and experiences. Whilst the therapeutic experience of communicating and exploring experiences and ideas through photography is invaluable it is equalled by the opportunity also to have a platform to share them – to be heard. It’s essential that we work from a perspective that everyone has a right to contribute to their social environment – has a stake in it - and has something of value to contribute to its development. The photographic image has a way of opening dialogues and presenting fresh ideas and perspectives.
Recently there has been a lot of media focus on the government action plan around reducing the risks to children and young people currently vulnerable to sexual exploitation. This is therefore an important moment for those most affected by the issues to be enabled to contribute to the debate and feed into the development and effectiveness of support and prevention services
Representation is contested ground
Although the photographic image is everywhere we still need to think about who represents who and for whom. Representation is contested ground and participatory photography goes some way to challenge power imbalance by offering those less likely to have opportunity to represent themselves (or their experiences) a platform to participate in a visual dialogue with the world. This can mean a dialogue with those who share similar experiences, or those who do not, those who develop strategy and governance, or those who deliver support services.
My place in all this
Photography and video have had a huge impact on my life – I came to using them personally in my mid 30’s and they have changed the way I see the world and have also offered me another form of communication to talk about how I want to change and contribute to the world. As a photographer and video artist, learning to communicate using a visual language has enabled me to explore my experiences and make sense of them and in telling my stories I feel more a part of our social fabric.
Roundhouse CircusFest 2012: Forum on Art and Social Change
Event date 02 April 2012
PhotoVoice will join the discussion around art and social inclusion as part of CircusFest 2012 organized by the Roundhouse.
An inspiring day of panel debate and discussion around Circus as an art form and how it relates to current trends around involving young people, international working practice and innovative funding models for improved sustainability.
The forum is designed to address the aims of including hard to reach young people in highly artistic projects, combine working locally with working on a global level and give us innovative ideas around our funding strategies and partnerships in an ever changing context.
For more information: www.roundhouse.org.uk/circusfest
Apart from PhotoVoice, speakers on the day include:
Skateistan, Afghanistan’s first skeboarding school, combinig teaching young people skateboarding with building and running an educational facility, providing healthcare, training Afghan staff, promoting peace and cross-cultural understanding.
LSE - Underground Sociabilities, an international inter-institutional collaboration researching how Rio de Janeiro’s favelas are using cultural activities.
Lake of Stars Festival (Malawi), an innovative Arts and Music Festival and business venture, which contributes considerably to the growing local economy
Creative Space, an innovative residency programme which started in July 2010, following the launch of Arlington as a new model for dealing with homelessness in the UK.
Sapana Circus, a young circus company based in Nepal and started by filmmaker Sky Neal in collaboration with the Esther Benjamin Trust, which provides refuge to children rescued from traditional Indian circuses.
When: Monday 2nd April 2012, 1 - 6pm
Where: Roundhouse, Chalk Farm Road, London, NW1 8EH. See map
Participation is free of charge, however places are limited.
To attend or find out more contact Flora on .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
A PhotoVoice evening with Finbarr O’Reilly
Event date 06 March 2012
Tuesday 6th March saw host to an evening with Reuters photographer Finbarr O’Reilly at the fabulous Foto8 gallery.
The evening was a roaring success, showcasing Finbarr’s international photo-journalism work, followed by a screening of the critically acclaimed documentary UNDER FIRE: Journalists In Combat, about the psychological and emotional toll of covering wars.
Finbarr O’Reilly is a Reuters photographer based in Dakar, Senegal. He began his journalism career as a writer and has covered Africa for 10 years. He turned to photography in 2005 and was awarded the World Press Photo of the Year in 2005 for his image of a mother and child at an emergency feeding center in Niger. He has since won awards for his multimedia work and photography, including first place awards from POYi and the NPPA. His solo exhibition, “Congo On The Wire” has shown in France and Canada. His series on white poverty in South Africa was included in the exhibition “After A” in Italy in 2010. Finbarr is among those profiled in the 2011 documentary “Under Fire: Journalists in Combat, which was shortlisted for the 2012 Academy Awards.
Under Fire – Journalists in Combat
A unique exploration of the psychological and emotional toll of covering wars and the risks journalists take in order to cover them. Shortlisted for the Academy Award nomination for best documentary, Under Fire: Journalists in Combat is co-produced by Dr. Anthony Feinstein, who works as a psychiatrist for CNN, CBS, BBC, Reuters and other international news outfits. The documentary features the experiences and insights of award winning journalists such as Chris Hedges, Jeremy Bowen, Christina Lamb, Paul Watson, Ian Stuart, Finbarr O’ Reilly, Jon Steele and many more. Among those interviewed are prominent war journalists from the New York Times; BBC, Times of London and many others.
Directed by: Martyn Burke
Year: 2011
Duration: 89’
Help us record children’s messages to the PM!
Event date 14 April 2012
PhotoVoice is leading the Right Year for Children campaign - join us on 14th April to spread the word about children’s rights!
On 16 December 2011, children and young people marched to 10 Downing Street to deliver messages from thousands of children all over the country about why children’s rights are important to them. The hand-in marked the 20th anniversary of the UK’s adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
So the messages have been delivered and – we hope – the message heard, It’s now time for us to record what children said to the Prime Minister so that their messages can have the biggest possible impact over the course of the Right Year.
What we need
On Saturday 14 April, Right Year for Children members and supporters will meet up at UNICEF UK’s offices to digitally capture (by photography or video) the messages children and young people drew on cut-outs of their feet. These messages will then be used by the Right Year for Children coalition to push for change for children’s rights.
We need you to join us! You don’t need any experience with a camera, just a willingness to come along for as much time as you can spare.
Date: Saturday 14 April 2012
Time: 11.00am to 3pm
Venue: UNICEF UK office, 30a Great Sutton Street, London, EC1V 0DU. See map
Support with travel expenses will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
Find out more or RSVP: contact Rose Virden at UNICEF UK at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or on 020 7375 by Friday, 23 March 2012.
VOICES exhibition in Peterborough
Event date 21 March 2012
VOICES exhibition will be showcased in Peterborough next week, between 21 - 25th March.
The Photographic Angle‘s touring photo-exhibition, Voices offers an extraordinary insight into the lives of young people living in London. This exhibition will be visiting Lynchwood House in Peterborough from the 21th of March to the 25th. The exhibition will be open daily between 10am and 3pm (free entry).
This exhibition showcases work from four PhotoVoice projects - among them Lookout London, that provides young people with the opportunity, the skills and the support to feed their perspectives into the debate on gang and knife crime issues through photography. The Photographic Angle are also supporting six Lookout London project participants to continue developing their photographic skills through a Bursary Scheme.
The aim of the project and the exhibition is to amplify the voices of young people in the discussion about the causes and potential solutions to gang and knife crime issues. It encourages other young people to speak out, and the media and public to consider their voices to be relevant and important in this debate.
Entry Price: FREE
When: 21 - 25th March, 10am - 3pm
Where: Lynchwood House, Peterborough Business Park, Lynchwood, PE2 6FT. See map
VOICES exhibition now in London!
Event date 14 March 2012
VOICES, a travelling photography exhibition by young people is moving to London for 5 days only! Prepared in collaboration with The Photographic Angle.
The Photographic Angle‘s touring photo-exhibition, Voices offers an extraordinary insight into the lives of young people living in London. This exhibition will be visiting Market Towers in Lambeth from the 14th of March to the 18th. The exhibition will be open daily between 10am and 3pm (free entry).
This exhibition showcases work from four PhotoVoice projects - among them Lookout London, that provides young people with the opportunity, the skills and the support to feed their perspectives into the debate on gang and knife crime issues through photography. The Photographic Angle are also supporting six Lookout London project participants to continue developing their photographic skills through a Bursary Scheme.
The aim of the project and the exhibition is to amplify the voices of young people in the discussion about the causes and potential solutions to gang and knife crime issues. It encourages other young people to speak out, and the media and public to consider their voices to be relevant and important in this debate.
Entry Price: FREE
When: 14 - 18th March, 10am - 3pm
Where: Market Towers, 1, Nine Elms Lane, Wandsworth, SW8 5NQ. See map
PICS Festival 2012
Event date 19 May 2012
Photographic Images Changing Society
Saturday 19th May 2012
An amazing panel of speakers confirmed for our festival of photography for social change in May this year, including photographers Simon Norfolk and Ian Berry! PICS Festival is prepared in collaboration with a debate platform GlobalNet21.
Migrant Resource Centre Workshops
Posted 28 February 2012
On Friday 24th February PhotoVoice’s Matt Daw and Clare Struthers delivered a photography and citizen journalism workshop for ten members of the Migrants Resource Centre: Engaging Communities Project, in partnership with GlobalNet21.
The workshop is one of the events and meet-ups being organized in the lead up to the PICS Festival in May 2012, and introduced those attending to the potential of photography as a way to speak out and be heard. Participants were introduced to the different styles and purposes of photography, and were given tips to increase the quality of their photographs and their power to communicate a message or a story. The photos accompanying this post are the results of an exercise to explore the area around the workshop venue – Whitecross Street in East London – and create a photograph that captures and conveys a particular perspective on it.
Migrant Resource Centre Workshop View more PowerPoint from Matt Daw
VOICES - a new travelling exhibiton
Event date 07 March 2012
An exhibition of photography by young people by The Photographic Angle in collaboration with PhotoVoice.
7th – 11th March 2012, Redwing & Kestrel House, Milton Keynes, MK7 6TT
The Photographic Angle’s touring photo-exhibition, Voices offers an extraordinary insight into the lives of young people living in London. This exhibition will be visiting Redwing House and Kestralel House in Milton Keynes from the 7th of March to the 11th. The exhibition will be open daily between 10am and 3pm (free entry). This exhibition showcases work from PhotoVoice’s Lookout London project, that provides young people with the opportunity, the skills and the support to feed their perspectives into the debate on gang and knife crime issues through photography.
The aim of the project and the exhibition is to amplify the voices of young people in the discussion about the causes and potential solutions to gang and knife crime issues. It encourages other young people to speak out, and the media and public to consider their voices to be relevant and important in this debate.
Entry Price: FREE
For more information about this event, click here.
Date: 7th Mar 2012 10:00am
Last Entry: 2:45pm
Venue:
Redwing House And Kestrel House
Kents Hill Park, Timbold
Milton Keynes
MK7 6TT
Free app from Silvershotz Journal of Contemporary Photography
Posted 27 February 2012
Silvershotz Journal of Contemporary Photography is pleased to offer a free app and download of its 2008 Folio magazine, available now on the iTunes store for iPhone and iPad.
Founded in 1998, Silvershotz provides information and inspiration on contemporary photography. This image rich journal features folios from landscape to abstract, social documentary to still life.
Silvershotz has offices in the UK and Australia and is now distributed in 1400 bookstores in 17 countries.
Support our London Marathon runner!
Posted 24 February 2012
The London Marathon is coming up and we are lucky enough to have Georgia Quenby running for us!
You will find her fundraising page here so please do support her if you can.
The London Marathon is one of the largest annual fundraising events on the planet – runners have raised over £500 million for good causes since the race began in 1981. This year’s edition will take place on 22nd April.
If you are doing an event yourself and want to support our projects, please email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
TPA Bursary Scheme off to a flying start!
Posted 24 February 2012
The Photographic Angle are generously supporting six PhotoVoice project participants to continue developing their photographic skills through a Bursary Scheme that we are excited to have kicked off earlier this month!
The six successful recipients are:
Nathaniel Williams
Bianca Tennant
Angelika Stolarz
Sansha Edwin
Victoria Omobuwajo
Venesha Cunningham
They are all very talented and engaged young people who last year took part in our Lookout London project where they explored the issues surrounding gangs and knife crime through their photographic perspectives.
Last weekend we held an intial ‘Introduction to SLR Camera’ workshop with the participants at the community photography project FotoSynthesis, run by Ingrid Guyon, who had this to say about the participants at the end of the workshop:
“It went very well. They are amazing, inspired and inspiring, dedicated and on time individuals!”
We will continue to run a variety of photographic workshops with them over the coming months and help to support them develop their personal projects - so watch this space!
Voice of Freedom - Leila Segal meets formerly enslaved women in Israel
Posted 22 February 2012
Delina came with her three children from Eritrea. Her mother paid the journey across the desert - through the Sinai… Her husband is in jail in Eritrea for refusing to serve in the military. She will never see him again.
Writer and PhotoVoice facilitator Leila Segal shares extracts from her diary written during a trip to research a Photovoice project with formerly enslaved women in Israel.
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Leila Segal spent January in Israel, putting down the foundations for a PhotoVoice project with formerly enslaved women in a safehouse in Petach Tikva. These are extracts from her diary during her trip. For more information about the project - Voice of Freedom - and to support us in raising the funds to start the workshops please see below.
3 January
The women I am working with were raped and kept in chains in the Sinai desert. They were forced to phone home then tortured so their families could hear their screams. When the families paid the ransom, the women were set free to run to the border with Israel where soldiers picked them up and took them to jail.
6 January
Today I made a cup of tea for an Eritrean woman who crossed the border into Israel three days ago with her eight-year-old son. She is 20. He is nearly as tall as she is and walks slightly in front, reaching back for her arm.
‘Make it very sweet,’ says Didi. I put three teaspoons of sugar in. The woman is shivering; she has come in to the shelter off the street.
‘How long were you in the Sinai?’ asks Didi.
‘Two months.’
‘Good, in the Sinai?’ The woman looks down at her lap. ‘No good in the Sinai,’ says Didi.
There are chocolate biscuits. The woman will not eat hers, but gives it to the boy.
9 January
In the shelter lives a three-year-old girl whose brother was shot dead by Egyptian soldiers as he raised the barbed wire for them to cross into Israel. The girl was in her brother’s arms.
11 January
An Eritrean girl. She speaks fluent Hebrew. Four years here, she goes to school. An Eritrean girl who lives in a room with three other families; a small bare room crowded with beds. A small dark bare room where three families and their children must live. Israel has taught her Hebrew but all the little brothers cry in Tigrinya.
13 January
I spent this afternoon talking with the Eritrean women in the shelter; they showed me their beautiful children, and we played.
It is hard for me to understand: why would you crush these flowers beneath the heel of your boot?
16 January
Some of the women arrive in Israel pregnant. Children of the slave masters; of fathers with no face, of gang rape. One woman can not keep the child within her; she must put him out. She is too many months. She fights to stop it. She fights against the birth.
19 January
Delina (name changed) came with her three children from Eritrea. Her mother paid the journey across the desert - through the Sinai. She married when she was 16 - ‘little marry, no good!’ She points to her eldest child: ‘first, 17, I have this! ... 18, I have this!’ - points to the second boy. ‘And now this!’ - the baby, in her arms.
Her husband is in jail in Eritrea for refusing to serve in the military. She will never see him again. ‘I go Eritrea, I jail.’ She can never go back.
21 January
It is very cold in Tel Aviv. Three families do not have enough blankets to stay warm tonight. Delina has no bedding at all. I have put out a call to friends in Tel Aviv, if anyone has spare blankets, please call.
22 January
I have seen a man look down at two Eritrean children playing like puppies in the soft blanket he brought them and afterwards weep tears.
23 January
I knocked on the door of Delina’s room but there was nobody there. I put the hand cream and baby flu medicine on a shelf, and the chocolate and two yoghurts on the sink beside her pot. There was no kitchen so Delina kept her pot and knife on the sink.
Her two boys ran about the street outside. A man named Thomas, who said he was from Nigeria, played with them in the darkness.
‘Abodah! Abodah!’ the women shouted up at me, waving their fists. ‘Delina - abodah!’
Glossary: Abodah - work, Hebrew, as spoken by the Eritrean women (normally avodah)
Voice of Freedom - Photography by formerly enslaved women
PhotoVoice, in partnership with advocacy organisation René Cassin and photographer Leila Segal, are seeking funding to launch Voice of Freedom, a participatory photography project in Israel for formerly enslaved women. This project will empower the women by enabling them to document their lives, feelings and experiences through the camera, and by supporting them to create texts in their own words to accompany the images they create. It will culminate in high-profile exhibitions of their words and photography in both Israel and the UK, and a high quality coffee table book of their work, thereby raising awareness of the broader issue of modern-day slavery and of the responsibility of individuals in society to play their part in eradicating it.
The project will be based at the Ma’agan Safe House for trafficked women in Petach Tikva, Israel. The safe house, run by the Israeli Ministry of Welfare, shelters women who were trafficked to Israel for the purpose of sex slavery, and who have now escaped. Some of the women in the shelter have given evidence against their former captors, as well as suffering traumatic and violent journeys to reach Israel.
Israel’s unique position at the juncture of Asia, Africa and Europe; its state of development; and its relatively democratic system make it prone to abuse by traffickers and those who exploit and dehumanise persons through slavery. Sex trafficking (both internal and external), child labour, forced labour and bonded labour all exist in Israel.
Sex traffickers prey on women seeking to leave desperate conditions in Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa. Over 80% of the women involved in the prostitution trade in East Jerusalem have been trafficked. However, the incidence of sex trafficking has declined markedly since Israel passed its Anti-Trafficking Law in 2006. In contrast, the incidence of child labour has reportedly risen by 130% in the last decade; and forced labour and bonded labour are also on the rise.
Please help us make this project happen
We need your help to make this project a reality. Any support you can give will help us move forward and change the lives of these women, and work towards a society that will not tolerate exploitation and enslavement.
Donate here (quote ‘Voice of Freedom’ in the message box to have your donation restricted to this project)
Thank you
Picture That! Workshops with young people with Autism
Posted 21 February 2012
A group of amazing young people with Autism and Aspergers explore the theme of self-identity through our photographic workshops in Bromley.
We have just completed our Picture That!, four-day workshop (14-17 February 2012) in Bromley, working with young people with Autism and Aspergers. We had one aim - to create a fun space where they could learn new photographic skills whilst building their self confidence during their half term break. The participants, aged between 12 and 15, explored the theme of self-identity and children’s rights through a variety of activities.
We would like to thank all of our participants for their incredible imaginations, our fantastic volunteers for their time and involvement and the very helpful staff at Hawes Down Centre, where the set of workshops were hosted.
“I really enjoyed doing the Bromley workshop, and learned a lot about myself in the process. I had never worked with children on the autistic spectrum before, so it was a challenge, but one that was well rewarded by interacting with the kids, seeing how much they got out of it, how well they worked together and what great photographs they were taking by the end of the week. Just the lovely goodbye they all gave me on the last day made it all so worthwhile, and I left on a real high! This is the first time I’ve worked with Photovoice, and it was a very valuable, rewarding experience, that I won’t forget.”
Millie Burton, PhotoVoice volunteer
Due to the success of the workshop alongside the positive feedback from the young people, their parents and volunteers, we are already planning another set of workshops during the Easter break - so watch this space!
Is this acceptable representation of young people?
Posted 14 February 2012
Channel 4’s new billboard campaign for Big Fat Gypsy Wedding seems to hinge on the presentation of children from a gypsy community as humourous cultural stereotpyes. Would they choose to be portrayed in this light if they fully understood the reaction the posters are intended to have?
The London Gypsy and Traveller Unit are today protesting outside Channel 4. Their beef with the media giant is that their recent campaign advertising a news series of the - arguably already exploitative - Big Fat Gypsy Wedding reverses years of anti-stigma work by presenting young members of the community in way that emphasises and mocks their ethnic characteristics and lifestyle.
When I first saw one of these adverts - a huge billboard looming over passing traffic on Old Street - I couldn’t believe my eyes. I don’t know the programme, but it seemed instantly to me that I was being presented with a spectacle intended to amuse or amaze. The huge but cryptic (to someone who doesn’t have their finger on the pulse of TV) words across the face of a perfectly normal looking freckled boy read ‘Bigger. Fatter. Gypsier’. The first two words just seem inappropriate. The last is inconceivable in today’s world. In short, the advert presents a boy’s recognisable face and asks us to make a huge number of assumptions about him based on his being a member of an ethnic minority. No other context is offered.
Another version of the advert shows two young girls dressed in colourful and revealing outfits as if ready to go out. It’s the kind of photo that teenage girls are bound to take - proud of how they look and perhaps not savvy enough to think about what assumptions others might make upon seeing such photographs. Of course irrelevant if you are only keeping them as memories or sharing with friends. Less relevant nowadays when distant acquaintances and complete strangers might come across photos on Facebook - and this is an increasing worry for parents. No one, however, would reasonably expect such photos to be picked up by a reputable media company and blown up to massive proportions on billboards around the country.
The London Gypsy and Traveller Unit mocked up an advert that uses a similar format, changing ‘Bigger, Fatter, Gypsier’ for ‘Bigger, Blingier, Blacker’. Their argument is that one can clearly see that such a campaign would be unacceptable - hinged as it is on unrepresentative stereotyping by race - but that it is actually no different than the BFGW campaign’s approach. I would go one step further and say that if they wanted to create an advert just as shockingly exploitative and unacceptable they should have used a child. No matter what release forms Channel 4 might have from the families of the children in the campaign - and I would be surprised if there was not a financial incentive to sign - there should clearly be an element of judgement by the broadcasters and advertising company as to what is socially and morally acceptable. Whatever the aspirations of these young people and the opportunities available to them in the future, it will be a long time before they are anything other than ‘bigger, fatter and gypsier’ to their peers.
Matt Daw
Projects Manager, PhotoVoice
A message from The London Gypsy and Traveller Unit
We are protesting outside the head office of channel 4 on Tues 14th at 12.30 – please come if you can or write and complain to the advertising standards agency – details below.
It would not be acceptable to stereotype other ethnic groups or to use children in this way.
Gypsies and Travellers say to channel 4: We have had enough of your big fat mockumentary
“These adverts are stigmatising us by the words and pictures they use. This programme is turning us into something that we are not’’
“These posters are insulting and degrading. It makes me sick to my stomach to use children like this. It’s a wrong portrayal of our community and my children are hiding in school because of it’’
(Members of the Hackney Traveller community)
If you agree then please speak out.
Complain to the advertising standards agency www.asa.org.uk
Also complain directly to channel 4 at www.channel4.com or ring 0845 076 0191
Join us this afternoon - Tuesday 14th Feb 12.30 pm - to protest outside the head office of Channel 4. We will be delivering a letter of complaint and hope to get some media coverage.
Meet at 11am at LGTU 6 Westgate Street, Hackney E8 3RN
Or Meet at 12.30pm outside Channel 4
124 Horseferry Road, SW1P 2TX
Nearest underground : St James Park / Westminster / Victoria
OR 24 Bus
PhotoVoice at the London Art Fair - how did it go?
Posted 26 January 2012
London Art Fair 2012 came to an end last Sunday. Read about the highlights of our involvement and listen to the best bits of our panel debate!
Full of amazing exhibitors, inspiring talks and hidden art treasures(have you seen robots that can draw your portrait or the real time video painting?), this year’s London Art Fair finished last Sunday.
We were delighted by the amount of interest in our work and would like to thank all of you who visited our stall, expressed interest in getting involved, or simply shared their own photographic experiences.
After seeing all the funky stuff at the Fair, PhotoVoice is a breath of fresh air, said a teacher from East London, who was thrilled to get her school involved in our Lookout London touring exhibition (you can too!) and use our Waiting teaching resource (available online).
The BIGGEST thank you goes to our volunteers! Ingrid, Anthony, Pavla, Marc, Susana, Jeni, Ashley and Caroline - you were amazing!
CAN IT OR HAS IT?
The highlight of our presence at the London Art Fair was the panel debate “Airbrushing the world: Can photography change society?” hosted by PhotoVoice Project Manager, Matt Daw and attended by four amazing photographers.
Listen to the highlights of the talk (order of appearance: Ania Dabrowska, Jess Crombie, Stephen Sidlo and Jenny Matthews)
Is your browser blocking access to this? Download the MP3 file to listen to locally: http://www.photovoice.org/Audio/laf2012.mp3
Lots of different issues were raised surrounding the main theme - the perpetual discussion on image fatigue (Does it exist or not?), the importance of streaming images into the right audience, or the accountability of photographers, journalists and news agencies (Who is ultimately responsible for using photos out of their original context?).
Ania Dabrowska, the documentary and fine art photographer, talked about her work with PhotoVoice (World Vision, Lookout London), her eye-opening project on dementia prepared in collaboration with Wellcome Trust, and the importance of historical memory and fighting stigmas.
One day, a man from Lebanon came to me with suitcases full of negatives. He used to be a journalist in his country and was documenting the life and social rituals of his people for nearly 30 years. We need to find a way to preserve it.
Jess Crombie, Head of Film and Photography at Save the Children, recognized the power of images to convey messages.
Stephen Sidlo, the editor of Demotix, a citizen journalism website, and Jenny Matthews, the photojournalist, talked about the danger of using images for manipulation.
Again, thank you all who attended (it was fully booked!) and hope you enjoyed it just as we did, one hour was definitely too short!
Can photography change society? Join our discussion on Facebook!
Rights! Cameras! Action! News from Scotland
Posted 20 January 2012
Becky Duncan, PhotoVoice’s facilitator and consultant in Scotland, talks about the launch of the RCA project in the Scottish Parliament.
The Scottish contribution to the Rights! Camera Action! Project kicked off in August 2011. It was a typical weathery day in a west coast Scotland town: all four seasons crammed into a day’s worth of sky. The group of young people producing the work was similarly typical: all varying skills and unique insights, but a commonality of culture and experience regarding their rights brought them together.
We discussed photos from around the world and thought about how to portray issues through images. We had a detailed discussion on the UNHCR Rights of the Child Convention. Many rights they took for granted, but quite a few were a surprise to the group. Coming from difficult backgrounds, many didn’t realise their views were supposed to be respected, that they should be protected from violence, that they had a right to play and relax. We talked. Then we got creative.
The issues chosen and images produced by the group went forward for inclusion in the Rights! Camera! Action! Exhibition, which ran at the Scottish Parliament from 12th to 16th December 2011. Around 20 young people’s photographs and captions relating to different rights were displayed in the working wing of Holyrood, right under the noses of the Members of Scottish Parliament.
Golds, greens, lighter yellows, deep reds and the odd blue MSPs whizzed past the exhibition, several times a day. Over the course of the week most MSPs saw the work. Many stopped to chat. Many were impressed. On one occasion, an MSP approached me and told me that her inaugural speech in the debating chamber had been around Article 31: “Children have the right to relax and play and to join in a wide range of cultural, artistic and other recreational activities”. She had a proud smile. She’s still there, years later, ensuring that right is withheld.
The young people involved in this project shared experiences, learned new skills and collectively considered their rights. They got creative and they spread their message. Many MSPs saw and absorbed these messages. Some MSPs were even reminded what drove them to public service. I’d say that’s a pretty successful project. I feel privileged to have seen the Rights in Action.
The RCA booklet - listing 42 articles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and featuring photos taken by PhotoVoice’s workshops’ participants - is now available! If interested, please email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Also, visit our Rights! Cameras! Action! multimedia resource!
“Waiting” teaching resource available online!
Posted 06 January 2012
We have just launched a great teaching resource as part of our “Waiting” project dealing with homelessness among young people in Scotland.
More information on the project
PhotoVoice gives a talk at the London Art Fair!
Event date 18 January 2012
Take part in a our panel discussion at the London Art Fair on 18th January.
Come along and check out our stall at this year’s London Art Fair, 18-22 January 2012, Business Design Centre, Islington, London, N1.
We will also be hosting a panel discussion on Wednesday 18th January, 12-1pm, on the subject: Airbrushing the world: Can photography change society?
The aim is hear from professionals with different experiences and perspectives on how photography can be used as a tool for social change, which will then be opened to the floor for questions and debate about the role of photography in bringing about change in behaviour, policy and practice.
Panel members include:
Ania Dabrowska
Ania is a fine art photographer whose practice is extremely socially engaged. She recently received a lot of publicity for her acclaimed ‘Mind Over Matter’ study into Dementia and Alzheimers. She has also been a facilitator on a number of PhotoVoice’s participatory photography projects, including recently the Lookout London project with young people in London being supported to engage positively with gangs and knife crime issues through photography.
Stephen Sidlo
Publishing Editor of Demotix – the citizen journalism website that allows anyone to upload their photo-stories to be pitched to the international media.
Matt Daw
Projects Manager at PhotoVoice.
Jess Crombie
Head of Film and Photography, Save the Children, and Chair of the Humanising Photography group.
Jenny Matthews
Photojournalist with many years of experience documenting conflict zones and issue-affected communities nationwide. She is currently working on a follow-up to her acclaimed book ‘Women and War’
To book your London Art Fair ticket, click here
To book your place for the talk, click here
“Migration, Stories of a Journey” International Photography Award
Posted 20 December 2011
PhotoVoice is thrilled to support the ‘Migration, Stories of a Journey’ International Photography Award launched by Accademia Apulia.
With the Patronage of Amnesty International, the British Council, the European Commission Representation in the UK and the International Organisation for Migration, Accademia Apulia UK is pleased to announce the opening of submissions for their 2011 Photography Award.
‘Migration, Stories of a Journey’ is aimed at promoting emerging photographers of all nationalities based in the European Economic Community whose work explores the lives and development of migrants worldwide.
The focus of this award is to highlight migrants’ struggle and difficulties as they seek a better life in their
adopted country.
Entrants will be assessed by leading figures in the fields of Photography and Journalism:
Barbara Roche - Migration Museum Project
Diane Smyth - British Journal of Photography
Jennifer Francis - The Royal Academy of Arts
John Ingledew - University of Gloucestershire
Lucilla and Fabrizio Barbieri - Coppi Barbieri
Stefano Tura – RAI
Steve Macleod – Metro Imaging
Susan Jenkins - The Art Newspaper
Prize
Three finalists will be revealed on 10 January 2012 and the winner on 10 Feb 2012. Their works will be
showcased in a group exhibition curated by Elisa Canossa at the Royal Horseguards in London. The three
finalists will be flown in as guests of Accademia Apulia for two nights. The winner will also receive € 1000
cash prize.
Entries opened on 18th October 2011 and are free. The closing date for entries is 30 December 2011.
To enter the competition please visit www.accademiapulia.org
How equal are young people? The Right Year For Children launch
Posted 19 December 2011
Two great events inaugurated the launch of The Right Year For Children celebrating the 20th anniversary of the UK ratifying the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
No children allowed?
On 15th December, an exhibition showcasing photographs and messages from young people across the country opened at Matrix Chambers, one of the elite barristers’ organization specializing in liberties and human rights. It was followed by an equality workshop for young (under 18 year-olds) child activists and with attendance of some great experts on law, equality and children’s rights.
Carolyne Willow, National Co-ordinator of the Children’s Rights Alliance for England started off by posing a fundamental question - How equal are the children and young people in England today?
Two of the country’s leading discrimination barristers, Karon Monaghan QC of Matrix Chambers and Ulele Burnham of Doughty Street Chambers, stressed the importance of the Equality Act and how it applies to young people’s lives: Karon in her talk on Why we have an Equality Act and why it’s relevant to children and young people, and Ulele in her discussion on Challenging discrimination: real-life stories.
All the participants were asked to bring one object, photograph or picture that they feel symbolizes how children and young people are treated in the UK today. A dice, a wooden box with a sticker on it saying “No children allowed”, a school trophy, a candle and more - all gathered at the workshop table reflecting young people’s personal view on the matter.
Footprints to No. 10 Downing Street
On 16th December, a group of 19 children and young people marched to the Prime Minister HQ to deliver messages from thousands of children all over the country, marking the 20th anniversary of the UK signing up to the UNCRC. They were accompanied by the representatives of four organizations that form the steering Committee of the Right Year For Children celebrations: Alicia Jones of UNICEF, Carolyne Willow of CRAE, Matt Daw and Clare Struthers of PhotoVoice, and Kate Parish of Pupil Voice & Participation England.
Children sent their messages on paper footprints, each footprint symbolizing one signature on this unusual petition, aiming to remind the government to remember young people’s rights when creating new laws and policies.
One of the participants, 18 year-old Rory Murray from Bracknell, told Children&Young People Now:
“It’s an important moment to mark the 20th anniversary. A lot has been achieved in 20 years, especially around giving children the special protection they need, but much more needs to be done. In the next 20 years I hope to see the UNCRC brought into our domestic law. The government is getting there on listening to children but they still have a long way to go.”
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child gives children everywhere over 40 major rights, including the right to education, family support, an adequate standard of living, to health, to play and recreation, to protection from all forms of violence, and the right to be heard and taken seriously. The Convention requires that all children be respected as human beings with views, feelings and ideas of their own.
Unlike many countries, the UK still hasn’t made the Convention part of its domestic law.
Rights! Cameras! Action! resource launch!
Posted 16 December 2011
Our RCA multimedia resource launches with exhibition in Scottish parliament, Edinburgh and Matrix Chambers, London.
In the photo: Sarah White MSP by our RCA exhibition stand.
Double your money if you donate!
Posted 14 December 2011
PhotoVoice has nearly £4,000 match funding available from its Big Give Christmas Challenge.
Make a donation and it will be matched.
Make a donation to PhotoVoice and it will be matched pound-for-pound! After the Big Give, we still have nearly £4,000 of funding from an annonymous donor available to match your donation.
Please donate whatever you can and help PhotoVoice continue its innovative work in using photography to connect the marginalised to the majority.
BIG THANKS in advance and Merry Christmas to you all!
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PhotoVoice Prints For Sale
Posted 07 December 2011
Looking for an exceptional gift this Christmas?
We have a number of prints for sale ideal for that special Christmas gift, from artists including, Sarah Moon, Laura Pannack & John Swannell to name a few!.
Click here for a full inventory of what we have on offer.
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Interview with our new Director, Kevin McCullough
Posted 07 December 2011
A big, warm welcome to our new Director, Kevin McCullough! We are very excited to have him with us & we are sure he is up for a challenge of steering the PhotoVoice ship!
We asked Kevin a few questions about his work, his favourite music and the challenges awaiting in 2012…
Kevin, where are you from and what is your background?
I am originally from Belfast and have had 20 years experience in international development working for organisations including Christian Aid and CAFOD. In the last 4 years I have been doing some work on funding social justice documentary films.
What attracted you to PhotoVoice?
I have known of PhotoVoice’s work for some years. I am concerned about issues of visual representation within the charity sector generally and the international NGOs in particular. PhotoVoice methodology ensures that those who are often the subjects of photography can become its creators, thereby offering a new perspective that challenges people’s prejudice. Through photography the participants are engaged in speaking out about their situations and challenges and expressing their hopes and fears. In this way, photography becomes a tool for advocacy and positive social change.
What are your plans for PhotoVoice in 2012?
It’s still early days – I’ve only been here a week!
I’m very excited about the projects we have in development for next year. Whilst these are tough financial times for the charity sector PhotoVoice supporters are some of the most loyal and generous. I would hope to build upon the excellent work that has gone on before me and engage more deeply with our supporters to build a solid financial future. In the not-to-distant future, I’d like marginalised communities to be leading that process of social change, not just part of it.
Any PhotoVoice project you cherish most?
There are so many excellent PV projects – Visible Rights working with children in Afghanistan, more recently Lookout London working with young people who have experienced homelessness and knife crime and Rights, Cameras, Action raising awareness children’s rights and the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child to name a few. Working with effective partners who are calling for policy change on specific issues is important. For us at PhotoVoice we can play a part in the advocacy process through the tool of photography and story telling. Last week I heard the stories of two young people living in east London and how the Lookout project was potentially life changing for them. By giving expression to their fears and their hopes for the future, the project is succeeding where so many others had fallen short.
Any upcoming PhotoVoice project you are particularly excited about?
The next phases of Lookout and Rights Cameras Action will be very exciting. There are two or three other projects we are working on which are sensitive, complex and yet cutting edge areas of work. What I love about PhotoVoice is that the projects undertaken are not safe but are always attempting to offer space for the visual voice of people living in vulnerable and difficult situations and yet through the experience of the project participants often see their situations in a different way.
What is the biggest challenge for you as Director of a non profit organization?
To continue to be effective, efficient and excellent in what we do. Staying close to our values and finding more ways of involving the wonderful community that is PhotoVoice.
What was the most challenging campaign you have ever worked on?
Make Poverty History - it was big in scale and in its demands of the world’s leaders at the G8. A campaign which engaged some 25 million people in the UK and marching with 250,000 people in Edinburgh was truly inspirational and yet the year had many challenges.
What do you do in your free time?
I am involved in a voluntary capacity with an international charity using sport as a tool for conflict resolution and community development and I’m a mentor for some youth projects in southern Africa. Apart from that reading, music, visits to the cinema, theatre and watching sport.
Tea or coffee?
Coffee – preferably Irish!
Favourite band?
Sorry, it’s Classic FM in the background for me and U2, the Beatles, Kanye West and my son’s band Mammoth Sound (not my style but you have to be supportive!)
If you weren’t working in a charity sector, what would you be doing?
Scoring the winning goal for Leeds United in the Cup Final! Then waking up and fishing from Mangochi on Lake Malawi!
The Right Year For Children launches this week!
Event date 16 December 2011
The Right Year for Children is coming up next Friday (16th December). How will we celebrate?
16th December 2011 marks 20 years since the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) was formerly adopted by the UK.
EVENTS
Throughout 2011 PhotoVoice has been working with young people all around the UK in order to gather their thoughts and experiences on the relevance and importance of child rights to their lives. The young people involved have included Young Carers, Looked After Young People, Homeless Young People and Disabled Young People.
On December 16th PhotoVoice and Action for Children will launch an online multimedia resource at www.rightscamerasaction.org.uk to inform and engage young people across the UK about UNCRC. A booklet will also be produced to be used as a classroom tool and to signpost the online resource.
PhotoVoice are to showcase this rights-based work in Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh in December, to coincide with the 20th anniversary and with a UK-wide press campaign based on raising awareness of this significant landmark.
The exhibition will showcase photographs and messages directly from young people, bringing their voices to the discussion and reminding MPs and public audiences alike of the importance of their perspectives and their engagement in the implementation of any policies or initiatives designed to improve their lives.
On 15th December 2011 exactly the same exhibition will be showcased in Matrix Chambers in London to coincide with an equality workshop for young people, as part of the launch publicity for the Right Year for Children.
On 16th December, young people will march to 10 Downing Street to present footprints from young people all over the UK to remind the government to remember young people and their rights when developing policies and laws.
RIGHT YEAR FOR CHILDREN LOGO
16 year-old Trishna Jethwa from Leicester was the winner of a nation-wide competition for children and young people to create a universal logo to mark the 20th anniversary of ratifying the UNCRC. Organisations working with children and young people, including the Government and local councils, will be encouraged to use the logo as part of their work and commitment to promote and protect children’s rights.
Carolyne Willow, CRAE’s national co-ordinator, adds:
“We hope the winning logo will be used by hundreds of organisations and will really help to increase people’s knowledge and understanding of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Our country signed up to this human rights treaty 20 years ago and we want to get the message out loud and clear that children and young people have their own set of rights protected by international law.”
On 21st November, Trishna claimed her prize by having her design made into a professional logo by PhotoVoice Ambassador Adrian Nunn at the design agency The Big Window who generously donated their time, whilst also meeting Maggie Atkinson, the Children’s Commissioner for England.
Check out our blog regularly for updates and coverage of all the RYC events!
For more information on the project: click here.
Lookout London Exhibition Launch!
Posted 02 December 2011
The Lookout London exhibition launch went off with a bang last night!
Special thanks to all those who came down to enjoy the evening & of course all those project participants, partners & funders who made it possible. The books flew off the table like hot cakes, the travelling exhibition looked great in its debut in the limelight, and lots of the young photographers were there to celebrate their achievement and speak to visitors about their photos and messages. Bianca from Homerton Space Project, and James from Stephen House both spoke very eloquently about their experience on the project, and the evening came to an end too soon for many of us!
A special mention to Hackney Borough Council for generously funding the event & the Crisis Skylight Cafe for superbly hosting it!
The travelling exhibition will now be moving on to Lambeth Council where it will be exhibited in libraries across the borough, helping to widen the reach & impact of this campaign within the capital. Poster versions of the same exhibition materials are available for schools - if you are interested in displaying these materials (provided by PhotoVoice at no cost to you) to generate discussion amongst young people at your school please email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Get in touch soon as there are a limited number of poster sets available!
We are not restricting the reach of this project to London either. PhotoVoice has partnered with a fantastic charity called The Photographic Angle, which has the aim of introducing new audiences to photography by touring pop-up exhibitions and taking photography out of galleries and into public spaces and informal spaces. TPA will be touring an exhibition of the work from the Lookout London project all around the UK – watch our website and sign up to the PhotoVoice newsletter to be kept informed of the venues and dates when they are confirmed.
And what next? Well Lookout London is hopefully just the start. The issues we are trying to address are not exclusive to London, and in the next phase of this project we hope to work in a similar way in other parts of the UK – including Manchester, Liverpool, Southampton and Glasgow. PhotoVoice and Chapter 1 will be working together on this next phase, and involving other organisations working with young people to include young people from as diverse backgrounds as possible. If you would like more information about this, or if you think you or your organisation could get involved in some way, please do get in touch by emailing Project Manager Matt Daw - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
If you would like to host the travelling exhibition in your community space - whether it is a library, community centre, service centre, job centre or museum - please email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) to arrange a date.
To request copies of the book - for yourself or for distribution in your school or youth club, please contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
*Lookout London exhibition, showcasing works on gang culture and knife crime, will be touring schools and libraries in south London.
Where is it now and what are the next stops?
Downham Library
5th - 11th December
Downham Health & Leisure Centre
7-9 Moorside Road, Bromley, BR1 5EP
Map: click here
Catford Library
12th - 18th December
1 Catford Road, London SE6 4RU
Map: click here
Lewisham Library
from 19th December
199-201 Lewisham High Street, London, SE13 6LG
Map: click here
Don’t miss it!
For more information on the project
VOICES Exhibition Now in Birmingham
Event date 06 December 2011
Previously showcased with a great success at the Hereford Photography Festival, VOICES exhibition moves to BOA in Birmingham.
Part of our international project See it Our Way that focuses on the problem of human trafficking and features photo works of young people from Albania, Lebanon or Pakistan, VOICES exhibition travels from Hereford to BOA, a fantastic creative venue in Birmingham. VOICES is a collaboration between PhotoVoice and The Photographic Angle, an organisation that transforms public spaces into temporary photo galleries.
Lookout London exhibition launch!
Posted 29 November 2011
A BIG thank you to all who came along to the Lookout London exhibition launch - a good time was had by all!
Lookout London poster campaign launched!
Posted 23 November 2011
Check out our Lookout London poster campaign recently launched across the capital - keep an eye out for a poster near you!
If anyone would like to help us broaden our campaign reach by putting up a few posters in your local area to then please contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) & I’ll send some out to you!
Posters showcasing at the Southside Shopping Centre, Wandsworth
Special thanks to all at Shahmoon tv for the generous charity discount on the street ads 
PhotoVoice Auction 2011 Preview Exhibition
Event date 14 November 2011
A preview exhibition of prints in the PhotoVoice Auction of Exceptional Photographs 2011, which is open for public viewing.
Date:
Monday 14th - Friday 18th November
Opening hours to the general public:
11am-6pm, late night Thursday to 7.30pm
Venue:
La Galleria Pall Mall, 30 Royal Opera Arcade, London, SW1Y 4UY
view map
Nearest tube: Piccadilly Circus or Charing Cross
The Silent Auction is now open!
See our online catalogue for all our silent auction lots and details of how to bid!
For details of the Auction night, which takes place on Tuesday 22nd November, and to book tickets please click here.
Auction catalogue
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The PhotoVoice Auction 2011 was a great success!
Event date 22 November 2011
This years Auction was a great success enjoyed by all who attended, and included some brand new features such as the preview exhibition and the Silent Auction text bidding system.
More information and to view images
A BIG thank you to all that attended and helped make the PhotoVoice Auction of Exceptional Photographs 2011 such a success!
We are very pleased to announce that the overall amount raised was just over £70,000!
It was the first year we’ve introduced text bidding within the Silent Auction and it added an extra element of excitment on the night.
It was also the first year we held a preview exhibition of the prints the week prior to the event at La Galleria, Pall Mall, which everyone who attended also thoroughly enjoyed.
For more details about this year’s Auction and to view the online catalogue, click here.
Watch this slideshow showcasing a selection of the projects and interviews with their participants from 2011:
PhotoVoice Auction previewed in Sunday Times online Spectrum gallery!
Posted 10 November 2011
The PhotoVoice Auction of Exceptional Photographs 2011 was previewed in the Sunday Times online Spectrum gallery on 6th November 2011 - check out the photos!
Festival Fever at PhotoVoice!
Posted 04 November 2011
PhotoVoice has been a big success recently at both the Hereford Photography Festival and the Delhi Photo Festival
Our Walk in My Shoes exhibition travelled down to Hereford for the festival, complete with new QR codes for instant audio download - see the wonders of technology in action!
Also as part of the festival our very own projects manager Matt Daw together with Anthony Riley of The Photographic Angle, gave a seminar in the use of participatory photography to bring about social change @Fotofilia Gallery in Birmingham on Monday 31st October. Check out the pics!
A slideshow combining work from our See It Our Way and Direct Voices projects, was also a big success at the Delhi Photo Festival. Check out their blog
Donate between 5 – 9 December and your donation will be doubled!
Posted 04 November 2011
Get inviolved in the BIG GIVE Christmas Challenge 2011!
Double your money!
Make a donation to PhotoVoice through the BIG GIVE today or tomorrow and it will be matched pound-for-pound! We have a target of £10,000, which if achieved will result in PhotoVoice getting £20,000 – a huge boost to our projects in these difficult times.
We’ve already received nearly £2,000, so we’re well on our way! Please donate whatever you can and help PhotoVoice continue its innovative work in using photogrgaphy to connect the marginalised to the majority.
BIG THANKS in advance and Merry Christmas to you all!
If you want to become a Friend of PhotoVoice click here
Please email your MP today to keep 400 16 and 17 year olds out of prison
Posted 28 October 2011
Please email your MP today asking them to vote against the new knife crime proposals coming before Parliament on Monday.
As you may have heard, the Government announced on Wednesday that it is planning to introduce mandatory prison sentences of at least 4 months for 16 and 17 year olds found guilty of threatening with a knife. This move which could see up to 400 under-18s ending up in prison.
Knife crime is a serious problem for some communities and we agree that urgent action is needed to address it. But we don’t think that prison is the answer. Instead, we need to look at why ¾ of children and young people who report carrying a knife claim to do so for protection. We need to tackle the barriers that still seem to exist in some communities between young people and the police. And given that rates of knife possession are significantly higher amongst children and young people who have been victims themselves, we need to work with young victims of knife crime, to better support them so they don’t think carrying a knife is a solution.
A survey of 15-18 year olds in young offender institutions published earlier this week found that, whilst nearly every single one of the 1000+ teens interviewed wanted to stop offending, only half felt they had done something whilst inside that would help them to stop offending.
If, like us, you think simply putting 16 and 17 year olds in prison is an expensive way of making things worse, please email your MP ahead of the debate in the House of Commons this coming Monday, 31st October, asking them to vote against this amendment.
To find out who your MP is and to email them, click here.
If you only send one email this weekend, please make it this one.
Stories of the World: Geffrye Museum
Posted 17 October 2011
Over the last five weeks young people from the World’s End Estate have worked with staff from the Geffrye Museum and PhotoVoice to learn and develop photography techniques.
Throughout the project the participants have used photography as a way to engage with and think about what ‘home’ means to them. This project has enabled young people to engage in an open dialogue about their homes and has encouraged them to think about them afresh, exploring ‘what makes a home’ and the way they live.
The work displayed in this exhibition are photographs which they feel signify the themes they discussed the most. Participants have also written corresponding captions which gives you an insight into their lives.
PhotoVoice at HPF: October - November 2011
Event date 31 October 2011
PhotoVoice will be showcased at two venues during the Hereford Photography Festival 2011, and will lead a seminar in the use of participatory photography to bring about social change.
Young people speak out through photography about the risks and root causes of human trafficking in their communities.
· Opens on the 31st Oct 2011 - Presentation begins at 5.30pm
· @Fotofilia Gallery Regent Street, Birmingham B1 3NS
· Closes on the 23rd Nov 2011
A short presentation by Matt Daw of PhotoVoice and Antony Riley of TPA introducing the exhibition and the organisations involved will take place in the gallery from 5.30pm on October 31st.
Walk in My Shoes: 12th-26th October Opening Night
Posted 14 October 2011
Thanks to all that made the Walk in My Shoes exhibition opening a great success!
PhotoVoice would like to thank everyone who made it down to the Southside Shopping Centre on Wednesday night, to help us toast the opening of our Walk in My Shoes exhibition & drink all the wine!
It was a great night, enjoyed by all, including the photographers, friends and families, PV staff, facilitators and project partners.
It was an especially good opportunity for our project participants to finally meet each other in person and talk about each other’s work and life experiences. Everyone loved the audio aspect to the photo-trail, Caroline from the Southside Shopping Centre itself, saying how much depth it added to her overall enjoyment of the photographs.
So, if you haven’t had a chance to make it down yet, fear not there’s still plenty of time, as it’s running until 26th October, so why don’t you take 5 minutes out of your day to take a walk in someones elses shoes?
PhotoVoice showcases work at the Delhi Photo Festival
Event date 21 October 2011
PhotoVoice work from the projects See It Our Way surrounding the issues of human trafficking accross the Middle East and Eastern Europe and Direct Voices, exploring issues surrounding HIV and AIDS in Bosnia and Russia, is being exhibited at the Delhi Photo Festival on 21st October, as part of a slideshow showcasing work produced by children/youth around the world.
Enter the Young Photographers’ Alliance (YPA) competition - Deadline is 7 October!
Posted 05 October 2011
YPA will be offering 2 photographers the opportunity to exhibit an image at the Select Photofair in Hoxton. Apply now! Deadline is 7 October!
Enter the Young Photographers’ Alliance (YPA) competition to win a place to exhibit work at the first annual London Select Photofair.
Sell your photography alongside a range of top photographers and promote your work to commercial clients.
Hosted by leading photographic magazine, Select, the fair will showcase the work of over 30 international photographers from 27 Oct- 24 Nov 2011. The Select Photofair will be promoted to collectors, art buyers, and creatives, enabling its artists to sell prints and attract commercial attention from potential clients.
PhotoVoice showcases work at the Delhi Photo Festival
Posted 03 October 2011
PhotoVoice work included as part of a slideshow showcasing youth produced work from around the world at the Delhi Photo Festival 2011 on 21st October 2011.
Announcement of new PhotoVoice Chief Executive
Posted 26 September 2011
Kevin McCullough will be joining PhotoVoice as chief executive on 28th November 2011.
Kevin joins us from CAFOD where he has been Head of Campaigns for the past three years. In that role he led the Climate Justice campaign, has been a member of the DFID Communications group and has been involved with campaigning work for Why Poverty?, a series of documentaries for 50 broadcasters around the world, including the BBC.
Prior to working at CAFOD he had a number of roles at Christian Aid and he started his career as a youth and community worker for Belfast City Council.
He is a founder member and chairperson of Tipping Point Film Fund, a co-operative working in partnership with the Co-Operative Group to fund film directors working on social justice films. He is also a founder member and chairperson of the charity Global Goals, which supports sports development in poor communities around the world.
He will take over from Dominique Green, who has been chief executive since January 2009. Dominique is leaving to expand her existing role as Delegate to the Berlin Film Festival, responsible for the UK and Eire, and return to the film and photography industries as a consultant.
The trustees are extremely grateful for the work that Dominique has put into PhotoVoice over the past two and a half years and thank her for her considerable contribution.
In Kevin we believe that we have an excellent successor who will bring new skills and experience to PhotoVoice in its second decade and we all look forward to working with him.
Eyes of Youth, Albania in partnership with World Vision
Posted 23 September 2011
Workshops have completed in Kurbin, Albania where young people in deprived communities have documented social issues, in order to engage the local community in working towards positive social change.
More information and image gallery
PhotoVoice Supports The Right Year for Children
Posted 21 September 2011
PhotoVoice has teamed up with the Office of Children’s Commissioner, the Office of Children’s Rights Director and many other children’s and young people’s charities to celebrate 20 years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in the UK.
The Right Year for Children 2011-12
PhotoVoice has teamed up with the Office of Children’s Commissioner, the Office of Children’s Rights Director and many other children’s and young people’s charities to celebrate 20 years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in the UK.
In December 1991, the UK Government made a legal agreement with the United Nations uphold and implement the Convention on the Rights of the Child in the United Kingdom. Find out more about the UNCRC.
We are planning a year of action, beginning November 2011, to celebrate the anniversary and seek greater rights protection for children and young people in England. We hope you will join us!
To find out how you may become a partner or supporter of The Right Year for Children, contact: Denise Malcolm at the Office of the Children’s Commissioner: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Lookout London photos to be showcased at police gangs conference
Event date 30 September 2011
Photographs from both Lookout London groups will be showcased at the Police & Criminal Justice conference Tackling Gangs and Serious Youth Violence, on Friday 30th September 2011.
As David Cameron talks about ‘declaring war on gangs’ and the public looks for simple targets to blame the criminal activity that took place during the spree of rioting and looting in August, the perception of young people in Britain is in danger of falling to a new low. Despite the fact that fewer than a quarter of those charged for criminal activity during the riots were under 18, the media coverage and political responses have been filled with references to ‘feral youth’ and ‘violent teenagers’. The issues of gangs and knife crime have gained media prominence once again as if they are connected to the same simple problem – the existence of a disrespectful, uncontrollable and lawless generation.
Representing young people only as part of these social problems damages any attempts to improve the situation on the streets. The implication is that young people are only important or worth talking about when they are engaged in criminal activity, and the pressures and dangers they face themselves are not discussed or dealt with. The issues are to do with poverty, lack of opportunity and boredom, not age, and young people should be engaged in identifying and building solutions rather than being ignored until involved in criminal or anti-social behaviour, and then being stamped on by the legal system.
As police, criminal justice professionals, MPs and youth workers gather in Westminster to discuss the issues and potential solutions, the presence of the work from Lookout London will ensure that young people’s experiences and perspectives are not forgotten.
Image: © Angelika Stolarz 2011 / Chapter 1 / PhotoVoice
Not every dog is angry and wants to bite you.
More about Lookout London project
PhotoVoice congratulates Mr Bezwada Wilson,
Posted 01 September 2011
PhotoVoice congratulates Mr Bezwada Wilson, Convenor of Indian partner organisation Safai Karmachari Andolan on his ‘Real Hero’ award. The awards, given at a ceremony in Mumbai last month, recognise and acknowledge ordinary Indians who are making a difference to people’s lives.
Wilson, along with the Dalit Solidarity Network UK, helped organise our Images of Foul Play project working with Dalits (formerly known as untouchables) to create images for SKA and DSNUK in their campaign to eradicate the practice of manual scavenging - a term used to describe the job of removing human excrement from dry toilets and sewers.
For information about the project see http://www.photovoice.org/projects/international/images-of-foul-play-2010 and http://safaikarmachariandolan.org/articleon%20manualscavenging.php, http://www.dsnuk.org/Manual_Scav.htm
Rights Cameras Action, UK
Posted 01 September 2011
PhotoVoice, in partnership with Action for Children, is currently running workshops with groups of young people all over the UK in order to gather their thoughts and experiences related to the importance of child rights in the UK.
The photos and videos produced by the young people will feed into an online and printed resource aimed at engaging young people in discussing the role of child rights. This resource will be launched in December 2011 to coincide with the start of the RIGHT Year for Children, a year of events and campaigns organised by child-focused UK charities to recognise the 20th anniversary of the ratifying of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) in the UK.
Walk in My Shoes: 12th – 26th October 2011
Event date 12 October 2011
Southside Shopping Centre in Wandsworth hosts a photo-trail of images by PhotoVoice-trained photographers sharing a range of diverse experiences and perspectives on living in Great Britain. Extended to 26th October!
Check out our blog for photos of the opening night!
12th - 26th October 2011
Southside Shopping Centre
Garratt Lane, Wandsworth, London SW18 4TF Map
Nearest tube: East Putney (District Line) / Wandsworth Town Rail
Walk in My Shoes is a photo trail of 13 images by PhotoVoice-trained photographers, and showcases a diverse range of perspectives and experiences on life in Great Britain. Installed in Southside Shopping Centre, this exhibition is designed to challenge people to take a moment out of their own lives and preoccupations to walk in someone else’s shoes.
Visit our information point at Snappy Snaps, 110 Southside to pick up an exhibition guide, leave feedback, and to submit a photograph for our interactive exhibition display of perspectives on life in Great Britain. Anyone leaving feedback will have a chance to win an A2 stretched canvas print of their favourite photograph in the exhibition, and the visitors’ favourite from the interactive exhibition will win a personal photo book. All prizes courtesy of Snappy Snaps.
Download the Audio Trail to listen to soundscape and interviews with the photographers on your mp3 player or mobile phone as you walk the trail. (Downloads as zip folder).
Download and print an exhibition guide, with a map of the trail and an introduction to each of the featured photographers.
Online Exhibition Preview
Click on the thumbnails below to view a larger image and to listen to the accompanying audio track.
Voices - PhotoVoice Travelling Exhibition
Event date 07 September 2011
UK charity The Photographic Angle is collaborating with PhotoVoice to showcase work from four recent projects in an exciting exhibition touring sites in Bristol, Birmingham, Swindon and Maidenhead.
Voices will feature work from recent projects Lookout London, See it Our Way, UR in the Picture and How We See It.
The Photographic Angle holds free exhibitions that travel across the UK transforming vacant spaces into temporary galleries. In this way TPA seeks to give the public more opportunities to engage with the dynamic field of contemporary photography practice. www.thephotographicangle.co.uk
Voices Exhibition Touring Schedule
7-Sep-11 Sat-Wed: Bristol
Venue: Aztec 920 and 930 Park Avenue, Aztec West, Almondsbury, BS324SR
14-Sep-11 Sat-Wed: Swindon
Venue: Kingston Hse, Lydiards Fields, SN5 8UB
21-Sep-11 Sat-Wed: Maidenhead
Venue: The Place, Bridge Avenue, SL61AF
28-Sep-11 Sat-Wed: Bristol
Venue: Lewins Mead,Whitefriars, BS1 2NT
5-Oct-11 Sat-Wed: Birmingham
Venue: Quayside Tower, Broad Street, B12HF
10 images from See it Our Way will also be showcased as part of the Hereford Photography Festival 2011, at Fotofilia (Fotofilia Gallery Regent Street, Birmingham B1 3NS) from October 31st - November 24th 2011.
A presentation and Q&A will take place from 5.30pm on 31st October with representatives from PhotoVoice and TPA present to talk about the project and the rationale behind the democratisation of photography.
Get the Picture: Scottish Parliament
Posted 23 August 2011
Young Scottish people are offered the chance to showcase their views, issues and lives in Scotland, as well as give them the opportunity to present their aspirations for Scotland over the next 5 years.
More details and online gallery
Lookout London: Homerton Group
Posted 18 August 2011
Young people in supported housing in Homerton reflect on the impact gang and knife crime issues have on their lives, as part of our ongoing project helping young people to challenge increasing media representation of young people purely as the cause of these issues. In partnership with Chapter 1.
More details and online gallery
Lookout London – Young people explore gang and knife crime issues
Posted 07 July 2011
This Summer, we are delighted to be running workshops with young people in supported housing in East London, in partnership with Chapter 1 (http://www.ch1.org.uk/).
From July through until September, we will be supporting young people in Hackney and Walthamstow to explore how young people in these boroughs are affected by gangs and knife crime. With young people so often framed as the causes of these issues, the ways in which they are affected day-to-day whether they like it or not, are often overlooked.
The work will be showcased through a series of local exhibitions and a booklet in October – November. Interested in hosting a physical or online exhibition in your venue, institution or website? Email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Two year project with the National Working Group for Sexually Exploited Children and Young People
Posted 07 July 2011
July sees us starting work on our next long-term project: a two-year project with the National Working Group for Sexually Exploited Children and Young People, generously funded by Comic Relief and BBC Children in Need.
Over the next two years, we’ll be working with young people in four sites across the country to create and disseminate digital stories tackling the issue of sexual exploitation from the perspective of young people affected by it. Workshops will start in January 2012.
Doing an event for charity? Do it for PhotoVoice!
Posted 06 July 2011
PhotoVoice has a page on the Virgin Giving page - http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/giving/ If you need help or ideas, email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Workshops Completed in the Somali Region of Ethiopia
Posted 06 July 2011
“This photo has a lot of important things: so many that we can’t count them. The house we use for shelter - it protects us from the cold, the heat, the sun, the rain, the wind, and dofan (storms). It’s a Somali house made of grass, harars,(woven mats) and small iron sheets. This is my house. I sleep there. I also study school subjects and religious lessons. I have a good life here.” © Cabdi Shaafi Ismaaciil / 2011 / Save the Children / PhotoVoice
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The PhotoVoice Auction of Exceptional Photographs
Event date 23 November 2010
Come and celebrate the power of photography in all its expressions at the renowned annual PhotoVoice Auction of Exceptional Photographs.
The PhotoVoice Auction of Exceptional Photographs
Hosted by Reuters
23rd November 2010
Thomson Reuters, 30 South Colonnade, Canary Wharf, London E14 5EP
This year’s collection is the most impressive to date, and includes stunning prints by legends of photography past and present alongside new work from exciting emerging talent. This year’s auction will include lots donated by Dan Holdsworth, Massimo Vitali, Frank Horvat, and an exclusive opportunity to bid on a unique one-off set of Simon Norfolk prints. Signed, editioned, vintage prints from George Rodger, Eve Arnold and Herb Ritts also feature.
Jeffrey Archer will host a live auction of 35 prints, and the remaining prints will be sold via a silent auction that will run throughout the evening. All prints will be exhibited on the night.
Live Auction 8.00pm – 9.00pm
Silent Auction 6.30pm – 9.30pm
Guest Auctioneer Jeffery Archer
Tickets including catalogue £20
PLEASE NOTE TICKETS ARE NOW ONLY AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE ON THE DOOR
Use the links below for more information on:
How the auction works
Absentee and telephone bidding
Terms and conditions
View Online Gallery
View Catalogue
Auction hosted by Reuters
With special thanks to Ayperi Karabuda Ecer, Jassim Ahmad Karen Chesson and Lynne Bundy and Shannon Ghannam
PV METHODOLOGY RESOURCES
Posted 04 May 2011
PhotoVoice offers a range of free online resources to support the use of participatory photography with different groups.
NEW RESOURCE ONLINE NOW - See it our Way: Participatory photography as a tool for advocacy.
PhotoVoice Lecture Series - Chris Steele Perkins
Event date 14 March 2011
Magnum photographer Chris Steele Perkins will talk about his experience as a photographer whose career has moved between journalism and reportage to the pursuit of personal projects. Chris will touch on issues of truth, responsibility and the role of photojournalism today and share his diverse portfolio of images taken from all corners of the world from Brixton to Afghanistan to Japan.
‘Words on Monday’ series at Kings Place, London, N1 9AG
14th March 2011
7pm
Tickets:£9.50 online*
Please add £2 to the online ticket price if booking by other methods
Book directly from the Kings Place
Magnum photographer Chris Steele Perkins will talk about his experience as a photographer whose career has moved between journalism and reportage to the pursuit of personal projects. Chris will touch on issues of truth, responsibility and the role of photojournalism today and share his diverse portfolio of images taken from all corners of the world from Brixton to Afghanistan to Japan.
Chris Steele-Perkins moved from Rangoon to London with his family in 1949. In 1971 started working as a freelance photographer and started his first foreign work in 1973 in Bangladesh followed by work for relief organizations and travel assignments. In 1975 he worked with EXIT, a group dealing with social problems in British cities. He then joined the Paris-based Viva agency in 1976. In 1979, his first book, The Teds, was published. Chris joined Magnum in 1979 and soon began working extensively in the developing world, in particular in Africa, Central America and Lebanon, as well as continuing to take photographs in Britain. He has published a book on Afghanistan and two books on Japan. His latest project is on people who have lived to be over 100 years old.
His reportages have received high public acclaim and have won several awards. Most recently his book England, My England was shortlisted for British Book Publishers’ Award for best Art/Photography book.
Image ©Chris Steele Perkins / Magnum Photos
London Art Fair - Special Ticket Offer
Event date 19 January 2011
PhotoVoice will be exhibiting photographs by both PhotoVoice participants and professional work by supporting Photographers.
19 – 23 January 2011 Business Design Centre, Islington
Now in it’s 23rd year, London Art Fair presents over one hundred galleries featuring great names of 20th Century British art and exceptional contemporary work from leading figures and emerging talent.
PhotoVoice will be exhibiting photographs by both PhotoVoice participants and professional work by supporting Photographers. We are stand M10 – next to Photo50.
PhotoVoice is also hosting a talk on at 12pm on Wednesday 19th. Book your place
Image Fatigue: Can photographs still be a catalyst for positive social change in a world saturated with images?
Leading photography professionals discuss past and present campaigns that use socially driven imagery and ask whether they still have an impact in today’s media, and if so what makes these images successful in driving social change. The discussion is led by Marc Schlossman (PhotoVoice Trustee and photographer) with Adam Hinton (Photographer), Liz Orton (PhotoVoice Facilitator) Monica Allende (picture Editor Sunday Time Magazine)and Jessica Crombie (Film and Photography Manager, Save the Children).
Please note Gideon Mendel is no longer able to participate in this event.
London Art Fair is offering PhotoVoice subscribers two tickets for the price of one, when booked before 14th January*. The advance ticket price is £11 plus £1.50 booking fee. Call 08448 480 141 or book online at www.londonartfair.co.uk quoting LAF106. Do come and say hello.
* This offer may not be used in conjunction with any other promotion and is offered subject to availability.
Red Dot: AOP Members End of Year Auction and Exhibition in support of Photovoice
Event date 01 December 2010
‘Red Dot’ is a hugely popular event, giving photography fans the opportunity to buy quality photographic prints. Bidding starts at £40.00 for all prints.
Charity Auction Evening - Wednesday 1 December 2010 @ 6.30pm
Exhibtion - 1 December - 13 January 2011
Another AOP silent auction is on it’s way, ‘Red Dot’ a hugely popular event, giving photography fans the opportunity to buy quality photographic prints. Bidding starts at £40.00 for all prints.
Come and place your bids and do your bit for charity! For a sneak preview of the images please click here.
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Opening hours: Monday – Friday, 10am – 6pm
Auction Catalogue 2010
Event date 23 November 2010
PhotoVoice Auction of Exceptional Photographs Gallery 2010
Event date 23 November 2010
Live auction: lots 1-35
Silent auction: lots 36-83
Lot 13 Simon Norfolk Artist Statement
How the Auction Works
Absentee and Telephone Bidding
Terms and Conditions
PhotoVoice Lecture Series 2010 - Anastasia Taylor-Lind in conversation with Laura Noble
Event date 02 December 2010
Anastasia Taylor-Lind began her career in photojournalism 2004. She studied Documentary Photography at the University of Wales Newport and the London College of Communication and is currently based in Syria.
PhotoVoice Lecture Series 2010
Anastasia Taylor-Lind - emerging talent within journalism and documentary photography.
7.30pm Thursday 2nd December
South Place Ethical Society, Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4RL
Tickets: £10 in advance, £12 on the door
TICKETS ARE NOW ONLY AVAILABLE ON THE DOOR
Anastasia Taylor-Lind began her career in photojournalism 2004. She studied Documentary Photography at the University of Wales Newport and the London College of Communication and is currently based in Syria. She is represented by the VII Mentor program.
Anastasia has won a number of photography awards including the Guardian photography award for this portrait if a Kurdish female fighter.
Laura Noble is the Co-Director of Diemar/Noble Photography, London. She is also the author of The Art of Collecting Photography (AVA 2006), has essays in several monographs, curates and lectures on all aspects of collecting and gallery practice worldwide. As an avid collector she prides herself on discovering new talent and writes extensively on photography in numerous journals including Eyemazing, GUP, Foam, Hotshoe, Snoeks, Next Level and LIP.
www.lauraannnoble.com
Please note - Marcus Bleasdale is no longer able to participate in this event.
PhotoVoice Lecture Series 2010 - Mary McCartney in conversation with Robin Derrick
Event date 11 November 2010
Mary McCartney started her career as a photographer in 1995. Since then Mary’s work has spanned the worlds of portrait and fashion photography. Her style lies in finding a moment that gives us a new insight on the subject.
PhotoVoice Lecture Series 2010
Mary McCartney - established photographer in the world of fashion, portrait and documentary, in conversation with Robin Derrick - Creative Director of British Vogue, Photographer and Director
7.30pm Thursday 11th November
South Place Ethical Society, Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4RL
£12 on the door
TICKETS ONLY AVAILABLE ON THE DOOR
Mary McCartney started her career as a photographer in 1995. Since then Mary’s work has spanned the worlds of portrait and fashion photography. Her style lies in finding a moment that gives us a new insight on the subject.
Mary’s assignments have led to her work appearing in editorial titles such as Harpers Bazaar and Interview Magazine as well as high impact advertising campaigns for clients such as Gossard, Stella McCartney, Adidas, Aga, Bucherer and Mandarin Oriental.
Mary’s first solo exhibition was in October 2004 entitled ‘Off Pointe - A Photographic Study of The Royal Ballet After Hours’ in which she was invited into the private world of the elite Corps De Ballet. This series of black & white photographs reveals an intimate unseen aspect of the world of ballet capturing the prestige and the chaos of life behind the scenes and the contrast between the sometimes gruelling, painful lifestyle of the dancers and their fairy tale performances.
Mary’s first book “From Where I Stand” a retrospective book of her photographic work to date will be published in October 2010 by Thames & Hudson.
Mary will be exhibiting ‘From Where I Stand’ at Michael Hoppen Gallery from 22nd October – 20 November
In 1982 Robin had just begun a three-year degree course at St Martins College of Art when he met Terry Jones, Editor-in-chief of the fledgling style magazine, i-D. For the next four years he worked with Terry on i-D experimenting with early computer graphics and playing with ideas of what a magazine could look like.
As Art Director of The Face, from 1986-87, Robin forged links with Nick Knight, Mario Testino and Juergen Teller. In 1993 Robin took up the position of Art Director at British Vogue and was then appointed Creative Director in 2001. Robin has been a contributing creative director to the Giorgio Armani brand since 2005
Robin also works as a photographer and director, shooting fashion and beauty editorial for the British, German, Spanish, Russian and Japanese editions of Vogue as well as US and UK Glamour.
Making the Change
Posted 21 July 2010
Young disabled people across the North West share their view of the transition from child to adult services, informing improvements to services.
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PhotoVoice Auction of Exceptional Photographs 2009
Event date 08 December 2009
The Auction is a firm fixture in the photography industry calendar. Its reputation grows each year and it has become associated with some of the world’s most iconic photography.
PhotoVoice was overwhelmed by the generosity of the photography community this year, and was proud to announce its most impressive collection of prints to date. This year the bidders had the opportunity to bid on prints by legendary masters including Eve Arnold, Bert Hardy, Thurston Hopkins, Patrick Litchfield, Nadav Kander, Mary Ellen Mark, Steve McCurry, Terry O’Neil and Herb Ritts as well as the great names of the future such as Giacomo Brunelli, Li Fan, Tim Hetherington and Anastasia Taylor-Lind.
Images of What is Ours Gallery - Paraguay
Posted 15 April 2010
Images of What is Ours, our Paraguay project with Amnesty International and the Yakye Axa and Sawhoyamaxa communities.
Image © 2010 Jose Florentin / Amnesty International / Tierra Viva / PhotoVoice
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Opportunities to get involved
Posted 22 March 2010
PhotoVoice is currently recruiting for a new trustee to bring legal expertise to its active board. More details.
PhotoVoice is also currently recruiting for several volunteer interns to support different areas of our work. Find out more.
PhotoVoice Lecture Series
Event date 10 May 2010
Sundance film festival and World Press Photo winner Tim Hetherington will be delivering a lecture at The Kings Place on May 10th 2010.
Click here for full details
PhotoVoice Newsletter February 2010
Posted 11 February 2010
Read the latest PhotoVoice newsletter
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London Art Fair 2009
Posted 22 December 2009
PhotoVoice is delighted to have been invited to exhibit at the London Art Fair for the second year running. For more information and details about the 241 ticket offer please click here
PhotoVoice Training Workshops
New dates have been added - Places are filling up fast, to book please click here
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PhotoVoice Auction of Exceptional Photographs 2011
Event date 22 November 2011
The renowned PhotoVoice Auction of Exceptional Photographs is back this autumn, showcasing a unique collection of world class prints from photography legends, contemporary masters and emerging talent.
Over 80 prints will be auctioned, including photographs by Eve Arnold, Tim Flach, Veronica Bailey, Herb Ritts, Brian Griffin, Tony McGee, Sarah Moon, Simon Roberts and David Chancellor.
Tuesday 22nd November
6pm-10pm, live auction starts 8pm
Auctioneer: Jeffrey Archer
Hosted by Reuters
The Thomson Reuters Building, 30 South Colonnade, Canary Wharf, London, E14 5EP
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>Tickets £20 in advance - click here to book tickets
Kindly supported by Reuters and Clifford Chance
For an early glimpse of our auction lots, visit our preview exhibition at La Galleria Pall Mall, from 14th-18th November, click here for more details.
The Silent Auction has already opened!
See our online catalogue for all our silent auction lots and details of how to bid!
Auction catalogue
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‘Voice of Freedom’ at The French Institute
Posted 20 May 2012
17th May saw host to a very moving evening organised by PhotoVoice and René Cassin to raise awareness of modern slavery and human trafficking.
17th May saw host to a very moving evening organised by PhotoVoice and René Cassin to raise awareness of modern slavery and funds for our Voice of Freedom project, helping trafficked women in Israel.
The exhibition included work from the PhotoVoice project See It Our Way around the same theme, that took place in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Marjin Alders showcased her documentary photos of trafficked women, living in Israel as refugees.
It also featured images of Red Light Campaign, that “use a fine art approach to create concept driven photographs to describe the suffering caused by human trafficking”.
Author Leila Segal, the initiator of the Voice of Freedom project, gave a very emotional reading of her work entitled Shelter – a collection of interviews with African women trafficked to Israel “that suffered extreme physical and emotional deprivation on the way.”
My writing is an attempt to give voice to some of their stories, and to speak into the silence that surrounds these crimes, explains Leila.
There will soon be a website dedicated exclusively to the Voice of Freedom project – so watch this space! In the meantime, you can help make the project a reality by giving as much or little as you can afford - donate here (quote ‘Voice of Freedom’ in the message box to have your donation restricted to this project).
Picture That! Exhibition - Bromley
Posted 17 May 2012
An exhibition showcasing the amazing work of Picture That! participants opened on 12 May at the Hawes Down Centre in Bromley.
The exhibition is the culmination of the two editions of photography workshops that took place in Bromley in February and April, working with young people with Autism and Aspergers.
Many of the Picture That! participants, together with their families and friends, joined us for the opening of the exhibition. It features the images taken throughout the workshop, accompanied by the participants’ personal statements, and a Fantasy Portrait photomontage, where they expressed who they want to be in the future, or how they view themselves.
We will keep an eye out for any future courses, I’m sure Sam would enjoy learning some more photography skills. He is much more comfortable expressing himself through a camera than he is talking, in fact he has often opted to photograph events in situations where he would otherwise feel uncomfortable. Thanks for giving him the opportunity.
Sarah Hayward
Picture That! is a set of photography workshops working with young people with Autism and Aspergers, designed to create a fun space where they could learn new photographic skills whilst building their self confidence. The participants, aged between 12 and 15, explored the theme of self-identity and children’s rights through a variety of activities.
The Picture That! exhibition will remain at the Hawes Down Centre indefinitely, so pop in for a look if you’re passing!
Hawes Down Centre
Hawes Down Lane
West Wickham
Kent
BR4 9AE
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PICS Festival 2012 -special edition newspaper
Posted 15 May 2012
Only 4 days left to the PICS Festival 2012 on 19 May! We have released a special edition newspaper to celebrate the event - in collaboration with Uncertain States.
You can find the PICS newspaper in the new issue of the quarterly Uncertain States, produced by an art collective of the same name, aiming “to expand a critical dialogue and promote visual imagery”.
The PICS Festival special edition newspaper features over 30 projects to be showcased this Saturday, 19 May at Hub Westminster in London, including Ministry of Untold Stories, Ania Dabrowska’s Mind over Matter, Simon Norfolk’s Photographs from the War in Afghanistan, Kick HIV Stigma Out, and many more.
Find the preview of the featured projects here: http://bit.ly/PICSpreview
If you want to support our free festival and get a copy of the newspaper - please donate £3 or more to http://bit.ly/picsdonate
Great evening with Peter Marlow as part of PhotoVoice Lecture Series!
Event date 30 April 2012
Another edition of PhotoVoice Lecture Series - that took place at Kings Place on 30th April - featured the work of Peter Marlow, one of Britain’s most acclaimed photojournalists.
Another edition of PhotoVoice Lecture Series - that took place at Kings Place on 30th April - featured the work of Peter Marlow, one of Britain’s most acclaimed photojournalists.
It was a great evening full of stories behind some of the most iconic photographs and an overview of an impressive career - from joining the Magnum Photos in 1980, through his work in on contemporary British life in Liverpool, to the current project on the naves of England’s 42 cathedrals. The latter turned into a book and the pictures were used in a series of stamps.
Big thanks to Peter Marlow for the wonderful talk and to all of you who came - stay tuned for the next edition coming up in autumn!
Peter Marlow studied psychology at Manchester University, graduating in 1974. He then started his career as an international photojournalist - he joined Magnum Photos in 1980, becoming a full member in 1986.
Despite travelling widely in his early career, Marlow’s major projects have often been concerned with contemporary British life such as his 1993 project Liverpool - Looking out to Sea (Jonathan Cape), the culmination of a six-year project photographing the city, and a book regarded by many as the defining work on Britain under Mrs Thatcher. Marlow spends time with his subjects, alone, with no assistants, often using only one camera, allowing the pictures to evolve rather than directing his subjects. In recent years, he has worked more extensively in colour and concentrated on his exploration of the physical and personal landscape.
“Trafficked women - speak into the silence”, 17th May
Event date 17 May 2012
Join PhotoVoice & Red Light Campaign and author Leila Segal for an exhibition on modern slavery at the French Institute, London on 17th May.
Did you know that there is evidence of slavery on most UK high streets? It takes many forms, but regardless of its shape slavery causes suffering wherever it occurs.
Please join us for a private viewing of an exhibition featuring photography by PhotoVoice & Red Light Campaign and a reading of work by author Leila Segal on the subject of modern slavery.
This is a donation-only event: donations can be made at the door or at our Virgin Money Giving Page (quote ‘Voice of Freedom’ in the message box). Suggested donation is £18, but please feel free to give as much or little as you can afford.
All proceeds will benefit Voice of Freedom, a participatory photography project for formerly enslaved women produced by René Cassin, in partnership with PhotoVoice and writer/photographer Leila Segal.
The project provides cameras to women who have been victims of trafficking, empowering them to document their lives, feelings and experiences on film, and supporting them to create text in their own words to accompany the images. The project is exhibited in the UK and Israel, to raise awareness of modern slavery and of the responsibility of individuals in society to play their part in eradicating it.
What: Artistic exhibition on modern slavery - a private viewing with refreshments and drinks
When: Thursday, 17 May 2012, 7-10pm (reading to be performed at 8:30pm)
Where: Médiathèque (2nd floor), The French Institute, 17 Queensbury Place, London, SW7 2DT. See map
To reserve your place, please email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Picture That! Exhibition - Saturday 12th May, 11am
Posted 04 May 2012
Come join us for the Picture That! Exhibition, to celebrate the work of young people with Autism.
Hawes Down Centre
Hawes Lane
West Wickham
BR4 9AE
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Foto8 Summershow Deadline is tomorrow - May 15th!
Posted 04 May 2012
The 5th Annual Foto8 Summershow is in its final stages of accepting entries for the 2012 exhbition. Hurry and send in your 3 best images to participate in the celebrated mass exhbition at Foto8 gallery in London and be in with a chance of taking the title of Best in Show with a cash award of £2000!
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Rights! Cameras! Action! Free drinks reception TONIGHT!
Posted 03 May 2012
Come along to our FREE drinks reception and private view of our children’s rights exhibition at the Underground Gallery in Charing Cross.
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PICS Festival 2012 - Photographic Images Changing Society
Event date 19 May 2012
Saturday, 19th May 2012 PhotoVoice and Globalnet21 will collaborate to present the PICS Festival, celebrating the role that photography can play in changing society for the better.
When?
Saturday 19th May 2012, 11am – 5pm
Where?
The Hub Westminster, 1st Floor, New Zealand House,
80 Haymarket, London SW1Y 4TE
T: 0207 1486 720
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http://hubwestminster.net/
Entrance free, but places must be reserved. Sign up here: http://bit.ly/picssignup
Preview the featured projects here! http://bit.ly/PICSpreview
This event is free to attend, non-profit-making, and organised and staffed by volunteers. Please help us maximise the impact of the festival by making a small donation, so that we can produce a special edition newspaper showcasing and celebrating all the projects brought together for this day, as a lasting testament and celebration of the versatility of photography as a tool for social change. www.virginmoneygiving.com/team/PICS2012
This one-day festival will feature a photographic exhibition showcasing the output of a variety of projects by organisations and individuals that aim to bring about positive social change through photography, alongside a programme of talks, panel discussions and workshops (including Sensory Photography and Visual Literacy). The festival will feature examples of photojournalism, participatory photography, citizen journalism and sensory photography, among others.
PICS is delighted to announce a partnership with London Photo Festival, running in Borough from 16th - 19th May 2012. Sign up for their talk with Giles Duley and Christina Santa Anna on 17th May - http://www.londonphotofestival.org/photo-talks-may-2012
Keynote Panel Debate - 2.30pm
What role does ‘truth’ play in photography for social change?
Matt Daw, Projects Manager, PhotoVoice (Chair)
Ivor Prickett, photographer
KennardPhillips, photo activist
Stephen Sidlo, Demotix
Joseph Cabon, Senior Photo Editor and Photographer, Christian Aid
Free Workshops
Places limited. To sign up in advance and guarantee a place, email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
11.30 - 12.15: Reading Photographs – Visual Literacy (With photojournalist Jenny Matthews - www.jennymphoto.com)
12.30 - 13.15: An Introduction to Sensory Photography - Photography Without Sight (with PhotoVoice and blind photographer Gary Waite)
13.30 - 14.15: Text and Photographs: The Role of Captions (With Glynis Shaw and Adam Lee)
Open Table Discussion Forum
Drop in and out of these discussions of current questions concerning the use of photography as a tool for social change, learning more about the issues and meeting people with different experience and skills in various fields. No need to book.
Session 1: 12 - 12.45
1. Image manipulation – when is it acceptable, if ever?
2. Accountability – when and why is it important and how can it be assured?
3. Are those affected by an issue the best people to document it?
Session 2: 13.30 - 14.15
1. Exposing truth or exploiting the powerless? What are the ethical issues around representation?
2. Image fatigue – fact or myth?
3. Citizen journalism vs professional photography – do they have different roles?
Multimedia Screenings (main conference room)
11.15 - Roma in Italy, by Maurizio Cimino
11.30 - Gays in the Military: How America Thanked Me, by Vincent Cianni
11.45 - Suil Eile - ‘After you bought me’ (photography by trafficked women in India)
12.00 - Eyes of Youth: a short documentary film about a community engagement PhotoVoice project in Albania
12.30 - ReFocus: Participatory photography with young people in Syria
12.45 - Migrant Resource Centre Showcase (results from podcasting and photography workshops)
13.00 - Burke & Norfolk, Afghanistan: A short film documenting Simon Norfolk’s new work in Afghanistan
Use #PICSFest 2012 to keep track of related and associated events on Twitter, or to highlight your own website, project or event related to photography for social change.
Who?
PICS Festival is a collaboration between PhotoVoice and a debate platform GlobalNet21.
GlobaNet21 has developed over four years to bring new audiences of people into discussions about 21st Century issues using social networks to make the initial contact. In this it has been very successful and gets good audiences for physical meetings and webinars, and has recently explored the use of podcasts and e-learning tools.
However, many marginalised and vulnerable people and groups have not always been connected to these discussions and debates and innovative ways need to be developed to reach out to them in an inclusive “public square”.
For press enquiries, or if you are interested in volunteering to help staff the Festival, please email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Generously supported by
CONGRATULATIONS Georgia our Marathon runner!
Posted 25 April 2012
HUGE thanks and congratulations to Georgia our Marathon runner who completed the course in a very impressive just over 4 hour time! She is less than £150 away from her target, so it’s still not too late to DONATE!
Street Collection Raises over £10,000!! THANK YOU to all involved!
Posted 22 April 2012
30 top street photographers have offered limited editions of their best work to raise money for PhotoVoice in an online sale between 11th and 2nd May.
View and buy prints at Street Collection website
Read the Interview with Gary Waite by photographer Annabel Williams
Posted 18 April 2012
Read the recent blog post by photographer Annabel Williams, about her interview with our very own project participant Gary Waite, and his experiences with sensory photography through the PhotoVoice project Sights Unseen.
Rights! Cameras! Action! Exhibition ‘kicks’ off!
Posted 17 April 2012
An exhibition to mark the Right Year for Children - a year of events and campaigns to mark 20 years since Britain’s adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, opened last week at the Underground gallery in Charing Cross.
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Last Wednesday, 11th April, the exhibition opened with a private view for the young people who’s work is on display, it is now open to the public until Thursday 10th May 2012, so please pop down to take a look for yourselves!
@ The Underground Gallery
In the underpass, Exit 9, Charing Cross Underground Station
Opening hours: Monday to Saturday 11am-5:30pm
Private lift available - call 0207 379 8828
PhotoVoice is also leading the Right Year for Children campaign & on 16 December 2011, children and young people marched to 10 Downing Street to deliver messages from thousands of children all over the country about why children’s rights are important to them. The hand-in marked the 20th anniversary of the UK’s adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
So the messages have been delivered and – we hope – the message heard, it’s now time for us to record what children said to the Prime Minister so that their messages can have the biggest possible impact over the course of the Right Year, so last Saturday 14th April, Right Year for Children members and PhotoVoice supporters spent the day sorting and recording the messages and illustrations sent in by young people at the Unicef offices, which are now also on display in the Underground Gallery - check out the flyer!
Duaa: “Children’s rights are important to me so that we have the same oportunity regardless of social situation, disability or economic background.”
Thomas: “Every child has the right to be happy”
Rhiannon: “Dear Mr Cameron, I think the UNCRC is good and clear. I support its aims.”
For more about the Rights! Cameras! Action! project and UNCRC, including free resources and lesson plans, visit: www.rightscamerasaction.org.uk
This exhibition has been generously supported by www.supersizeprint.co.uk
Auckland Festival of Photography - Crossing Borders Symposium
Event date 02 June 2012
Featuring PhotoVoice Projects Manager Matt Daw presenting See it Our Way.
Artists Alfredo Bini, Bruce Connew, Matt Daw, Nikki Denholm Theme Talking Culture Talking Culture Symposium’s theme for the 2012 Festival is ‘Crossing Borders’, an exploration through photography of the insidious underside of globalisation.
While the internationalisation of production and ‘free trade’ of goods, money, people and technology across borders has undoubtedly brought many benefits, the unequal economic power relations between countries means globalisation has also relied upon the exploitation of resources and people in developing nations for the benefit of the developed world. The duplicitous nature of globalisation is such that wealthy nations embrace internationalisation by welcoming inexpensively produced goods for consumption and cheap labour for jobs that can’t be filled, while on the other hand renouncing and making clear the boundaries and limits to internationalism through tough immigration laws for refugees and economic migrants seeking escape from conflict, oppression and poverty.
In addition, globalisation’s official crossing of borders of people and production is mirrored in and, according to Gargi Bhattachryya, dependent upon illicit networks of trafficked people, money, drugs and arms in a multi-million-dollar illegal economy. The ‘free trade’ ideal has become an “illogical and ideological obsession where market overrides any concern for human welfare or social impact”.
Our four presenters today will engage with the ‘crossing borders’ theme from a variety of approaches and nations. New Zealand ‘s Nicki Denholm has been a human rights photographer for 20 years and has documented drug trafficking prisoners in Bolivia and Peru, the migration of African refugees to New Zealand, and internally displaced people within the refugee camps of Northern Somalia. Italy’s Alfredo Bini has photographed African economic migrants crossing the Tenere Desert in a bid to make it to Europe. The UK’s Matt Daw, project manager for PhotoVoice will discuss See It Our Way, a photography project involving young people from Eastern Europe and the Middle East affected by sex and child labour trafficking. And New Zealand’s Bruce Connew discusses his photographs over 7 years of an Indo-Fijian community for Stopover - a story of migration.
Full programme for Auckland Festival of Photography
Where: Goodman Fielder Room, Aotea Center, Queen Street, Auckland
When: Saturday 2 June, 10:30 am to 4pm.
Picture That! is back!
Posted 12 April 2012
We are back in Bromley for another set of photography workshops working with young people with Autism and Aspergers.
We have been back in Bromley for another set of photography workshops working with young people with Autism and Aspergers.
We have just completed the second edition of Picture That!, four-day workshop (10-13 April 2012) in Bromley, working with young people with Autism and Aspergers. We had one aim - to create a fun space where they could learn new photographic skills whilst building their self confidence during their Easter break. The participants, aged between 12 and 15, explored the theme of self-identity and children’s rights through a variety of activities.
We would like to thank all of our participants for their incredible imaginations, our fantastic volunteers for their time and involvement and the very helpful staff at Hawes Down Centre, where the set of workshops were hosted.
“I really enjoyed doing the Bromley workshop, and learned a lot about myself in the process. I had never worked with children on the autistic spectrum before, so it was a challenge, but one that was well rewarded by interacting with the kids, seeing how much they got out of it, how well they worked together and what great photographs they were taking by the end of the week. Just the lovely goodbye they all gave me on the last day made it all so worthwhile, and I left on a real high! This is the first time I’ve worked with Photovoice, and it was a very valuable, rewarding experience, that I won’t forget.”
Millie Burton, PhotoVoice volunteer
We will be holding an exhibition at Hawes Dawn Centre featuring all work from the two Picture That! projects. It will be coming soon so watch this space!
Lookout London exhibition has moved to Dalston!
Event date 24 April 2012
The exhibition that showcases young people’s perspective on gang culture and knife crime, will stay at Dalston Library until the 14th of May.
The Lookout project provides young people (under 25) with the opportunity, the skills and the support to feed their perspectives into the debate on gangs and knife crime issues through photography.
When: 24th April - 14th May
Where: Dalston Library, 24-30 Dalston Lane, London, E8 3AZ. See map
Street Collection - an online sale of affordable street photography is OPEN!
Event date 11 April 2012
30 top street photographers have offered limited editions of their best work to raise money for PhotoVoice in an online sale between 11th and 25th April.
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Street Collection website
Street Photography has been enjoying an extraordinary renaissance in the last few years with a raft of dedicated publications, festivals, magazines and exhibitions. Now leading practitioners from across the world have come together to offer their work in an online sale to raise money for the charity PhotoVoice.
The Street Collection includes beautiful, dramatic, comic and moving images that capture the energy and idiosyncrasy of everyday life on streets across the globe. Over 350 prints will be available at just £100 each.
Participating photographers include: Nick Turpin, David Gibson, Maciej Dakowicz, Nils Jorgensen, Mark Alor Powell, Stephen McLaren, Mimi Mollica, Polly Braden and Johanna Neurath. The sale is curated by Sophie Howarth, co-author of Street Photography Now (Thames and Hudson, 2010).
Kevin McCullough, Director of PhotoVoice:
“We’ve been overwhelmed by the generosity of the global street photography community. They really recognise the importance of the work we do giving marginalised people who have typically just been the subject of photographs the opportunity to represent themselves through the images they create.”
Sophie Howarth, organiser of the sale and co-author of Street Photography Now:
“This is a unique opportunity for fans of street photography to buy original work by some of the biggest names in the genre for just £100. Many of the prints are well known images that have never previously been available for purchase, so we’re anticipating a bit of a rush when sales open. Several of the participating photographers have told me they are hoping to buy one anothers’ work, so I think they’ll be among the buyers too.”
Nick Turpin, participating photographer:
“The whole street photography community seems to have got behind this initiative and the quality of work that’s available is staggering. For me it’s both a great opportunity to make street photography affordable, and to show my support for the innovative and important work that PhotoVoice do broadening the base of people who feel empowered to express themselves through photography.”
Buyers will be able to view all the available photographs online at www.thestreetcollection.net from 4 April. Online sales open at 10am on 11 April.
Rights! Cameras! Action! exhibition in London
Event date 11 April 2012
Young People Explore Children’s Rights Through Photography
Rights! Cameras! Action! has engaged young people all over the UK in exploring the relevance of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child to their lives. Opens April 11th @Underground Gallery, London.
An exhibition to mark the Right Year for Children (http://www.ry4c.org.uk) - a year of events and campaigns to mark 20 years since Britain’s adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Wednesday 11th April - Thursday 10th May 2012
Opening hours: Monday to Saturday 11am-5:30pm
Private View and Right Year for Children reception:
Thursday 3rd May 2012, 5pm - 8pm
@ The Underground Gallery
In the underpass, Exit 9, Charing Cross Underground Station
Private lift available - call 0207 379 8828
For more about the Rights! Cameras! Action! project and UNCRC, including free resources and lesson plans, visit: www.rightscamerasaction.org.uk
This exhibition has been generously supported by www.supersizeprint.co.uk
Citizen Journalism & Beacon Hubs - Extending the Public Square
Event date 28 March 2012
Projects Manager Matt Daw is speaking as part of the GlobalNet21 and Media Trust meeting on the subject of Citizen Journalism and Beacon Hubs on Wednesday 28th March 2012.
Fond farewell to Homerton Space Project!
Posted 22 March 2012
Last week, was a very sad week for fabulous charity, Chapter 1 who provides supported housing and much needed support for young vulnerable people, as their Homerton Space project came to an end as they know it.
Last week, was a very sad week for fabulous charity, Chapter 1 who provides supported housing and much needed emotional support for young vulnerable people, as their Homerton Space project came to an end as they know it.
Last year we partnered with Chapter 1, working with their young residents through our Lookout London project, engaging young people in the debate around gangs, gun and knife crime.
Due to local government spending cuts, the supported housing units in Hackney are having their services combined, meaning some staff are losing their jobs and many young people are being moved from their current homes into new hostels, seperating them from staff that have become like family to them. Last week I went along to the emotional farewell, organised for the staff and service users at Chapter 1’s Homerton Space project, who are affected by these changes.
Geoff Hawkins, Chief Executive, Chapter 1 explains the situation:
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I also spoke to a few of the residents to see how they were feeling about the changes.
Luke Richards-Wolfram, Resident, had this to say:
“These changes are kinda sad to be honest cos I’ve been here for almost a year now, it’s kinda like we’re losing family here, cos this place is not like most hostels, it’s creating a new family and community and stuff like that. Basically these changes are seperating everyone from each other and breaking up a family so its really sad, but in a way I suppose in life there’s always changes, so you just have to get used to it, that’s one side of it, but it’s still really sad though.”
As Luke says, change is an ineviatble part of life, but for these high risk vulnerable young people, change has always been their way of life and the Homerton Space project has been the first place to provide them with a sense of community, stability and family that they so desperately need.
Lilieth Martin, Project Director, has been at the project for 21 years:
“The project’s really special, the amount of young people who have been helped in the project is unbelievable. We really push education and encourage young people to find what they’re best at and just take it as far as they can, we’ve got young people who are good solid members of their community now, teachers, social workers and I look at that and think it’s been a really special time at the project.”
One of the central themes that kept arising was their frustration that their voices hadn’t been listened to when the local authorities were making these decisions that will ultimately affect their lives.
Echoed by the sentiments of Bianca Tennant, a long term resident:
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The main concern is that these cuts are short sighted, and will result in a negative sustained impact on not only the young people of the project but of the country. Only earlier this month, was a 17-year-old boy left in a critical condition after being stabbed on a bus in West Norwood, hours later, Kwame Ofosu-Asare, 17, from Catford, was stabbed to death by two youths in Brixton and Harry Potter actor, Jamie Waylett was recently jailed for gang violence during riots.
Geoff Hawkins:
“The dilemma is the quality of the support, here we’ve got a team who are based here 24/7, and yes there’s a cost to that but you’ve got to look at the outcome you achieve. You’ve got young people with high, complex needs, what’s going to happen when there aren’t people around? That’s a big issue, so you may save a few hundred quid here, but how much more are you going to end up spending in the criminal justice system, people might get into trouble here because of that lack of immediate intervention, without staff on site, seeing what’s going on and who can take action.”
Whatever the outcome, everyone here at PhotoVoice wishes the staff and young people all the best for the future, and long may the spirit of the Homerton Space Project continue! We will continue to support them throughout this transition through our Bursary Scheme, of which four of the residents are a part of, and beyond!
Clare Struthers
Projects Support
Photovoice welcomes Helen Cammock to the team!
Posted 19 March 2012
I’m Helen Cammock and I’ve just started as the new Project Manager for the PhotoVoice project Having Our Say 2.
I’m really looking forward to getting the project up and running – it’ll provide new challenges and having previously run a photography festival programme, it’ll be an exciting change to be working entirely on projects that focus on participatory practice.
Previous to running Brighton Photo Fringe I worked for 10 years in the public sector with families and young people on a number of different projects and initiatives, as well as working within statutory services. I continue in my role as chair of a foster panel and am committed to improving the services that Looked after Children are offered. I have always used photography on projects with adults, children and young people and have used participatory photography as a commissioned facilitator on different projects for the past 8 years. I have just completed an MA in Photography at the Royal College of Art.
What will I be working on?
Having Our Say 2 aims to offer young people at risk of sexual exploitation, (or those who have already experienced sexual exploitation) an opportunity to tell their stories through using photography, video, written/spoken word and music. Photovoice will be working in partnership with four support projects nationally who work directly with young people. The digital stories created by the young people on the project will both exhibited and developed into a training and support pack for workers in the services that young people access. We’ll be partnered by the National Working Group for Sexually Exploited Children and Young People who’s expertise will combine with the first hand knowledge of the young people involved to create a vital information and training tool for support service providers and workers.
Why participatory photography is important to me?
Participative arts practice is an incredibly powerful tool, enabling people to find a voice whilst developing new skills. It develops a sense of self advocacy and can build on previous routes of communication whilst also offering new ones. There is nothing more empowering than learning new skills whilst sharing your experiences in a safe environment – creative skills enable you to communicate both ideas and experiences. Whilst the therapeutic experience of communicating and exploring experiences and ideas through photography is invaluable it is equalled by the opportunity also to have a platform to share them – to be heard. It’s essential that we work from a perspective that everyone has a right to contribute to their social environment – has a stake in it - and has something of value to contribute to its development. The photographic image has a way of opening dialogues and presenting fresh ideas and perspectives.
Recently there has been a lot of media focus on the government action plan around reducing the risks to children and young people currently vulnerable to sexual exploitation. This is therefore an important moment for those most affected by the issues to be enabled to contribute to the debate and feed into the development and effectiveness of support and prevention services
Representation is contested ground
Although the photographic image is everywhere we still need to think about who represents who and for whom. Representation is contested ground and participatory photography goes some way to challenge power imbalance by offering those less likely to have opportunity to represent themselves (or their experiences) a platform to participate in a visual dialogue with the world. This can mean a dialogue with those who share similar experiences, or those who do not, those who develop strategy and governance, or those who deliver support services.
My place in all this
Photography and video have had a huge impact on my life – I came to using them personally in my mid 30’s and they have changed the way I see the world and have also offered me another form of communication to talk about how I want to change and contribute to the world. As a photographer and video artist, learning to communicate using a visual language has enabled me to explore my experiences and make sense of them and in telling my stories I feel more a part of our social fabric.
Roundhouse CircusFest 2012: Forum on Art and Social Change
Event date 02 April 2012
PhotoVoice will join the discussion around art and social inclusion as part of CircusFest 2012 organized by the Roundhouse.
An inspiring day of panel debate and discussion around Circus as an art form and how it relates to current trends around involving young people, international working practice and innovative funding models for improved sustainability.
The forum is designed to address the aims of including hard to reach young people in highly artistic projects, combine working locally with working on a global level and give us innovative ideas around our funding strategies and partnerships in an ever changing context.
For more information: www.roundhouse.org.uk/circusfest
Apart from PhotoVoice, speakers on the day include:
Skateistan, Afghanistan’s first skeboarding school, combinig teaching young people skateboarding with building and running an educational facility, providing healthcare, training Afghan staff, promoting peace and cross-cultural understanding.
LSE - Underground Sociabilities, an international inter-institutional collaboration researching how Rio de Janeiro’s favelas are using cultural activities.
Lake of Stars Festival (Malawi), an innovative Arts and Music Festival and business venture, which contributes considerably to the growing local economy
Creative Space, an innovative residency programme which started in July 2010, following the launch of Arlington as a new model for dealing with homelessness in the UK.
Sapana Circus, a young circus company based in Nepal and started by filmmaker Sky Neal in collaboration with the Esther Benjamin Trust, which provides refuge to children rescued from traditional Indian circuses.
When: Monday 2nd April 2012, 1 - 6pm
Where: Roundhouse, Chalk Farm Road, London, NW1 8EH. See map
Participation is free of charge, however places are limited.
To attend or find out more contact Flora on .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
A PhotoVoice evening with Finbarr O’Reilly
Event date 06 March 2012
Tuesday 6th March saw host to an evening with Reuters photographer Finbarr O’Reilly at the fabulous Foto8 gallery.
The evening was a roaring success, showcasing Finbarr’s international photo-journalism work, followed by a screening of the critically acclaimed documentary UNDER FIRE: Journalists In Combat, about the psychological and emotional toll of covering wars.
Finbarr O’Reilly is a Reuters photographer based in Dakar, Senegal. He began his journalism career as a writer and has covered Africa for 10 years. He turned to photography in 2005 and was awarded the World Press Photo of the Year in 2005 for his image of a mother and child at an emergency feeding center in Niger. He has since won awards for his multimedia work and photography, including first place awards from POYi and the NPPA. His solo exhibition, “Congo On The Wire” has shown in France and Canada. His series on white poverty in South Africa was included in the exhibition “After A” in Italy in 2010. Finbarr is among those profiled in the 2011 documentary “Under Fire: Journalists in Combat, which was shortlisted for the 2012 Academy Awards.
Under Fire – Journalists in Combat
A unique exploration of the psychological and emotional toll of covering wars and the risks journalists take in order to cover them. Shortlisted for the Academy Award nomination for best documentary, Under Fire: Journalists in Combat is co-produced by Dr. Anthony Feinstein, who works as a psychiatrist for CNN, CBS, BBC, Reuters and other international news outfits. The documentary features the experiences and insights of award winning journalists such as Chris Hedges, Jeremy Bowen, Christina Lamb, Paul Watson, Ian Stuart, Finbarr O’ Reilly, Jon Steele and many more. Among those interviewed are prominent war journalists from the New York Times; BBC, Times of London and many others.
Directed by: Martyn Burke
Year: 2011
Duration: 89’
Help us record children’s messages to the PM!
Event date 14 April 2012
PhotoVoice is leading the Right Year for Children campaign - join us on 14th April to spread the word about children’s rights!
On 16 December 2011, children and young people marched to 10 Downing Street to deliver messages from thousands of children all over the country about why children’s rights are important to them. The hand-in marked the 20th anniversary of the UK’s adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
So the messages have been delivered and – we hope – the message heard, It’s now time for us to record what children said to the Prime Minister so that their messages can have the biggest possible impact over the course of the Right Year.
What we need
On Saturday 14 April, Right Year for Children members and supporters will meet up at UNICEF UK’s offices to digitally capture (by photography or video) the messages children and young people drew on cut-outs of their feet. These messages will then be used by the Right Year for Children coalition to push for change for children’s rights.
We need you to join us! You don’t need any experience with a camera, just a willingness to come along for as much time as you can spare.
Date: Saturday 14 April 2012
Time: 11.00am to 3pm
Venue: UNICEF UK office, 30a Great Sutton Street, London, EC1V 0DU. See map
Support with travel expenses will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
Find out more or RSVP: contact Rose Virden at UNICEF UK at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or on 020 7375 by Friday, 23 March 2012.
VOICES exhibition in Peterborough
Event date 21 March 2012
VOICES exhibition will be showcased in Peterborough next week, between 21 - 25th March.
The Photographic Angle‘s touring photo-exhibition, Voices offers an extraordinary insight into the lives of young people living in London. This exhibition will be visiting Lynchwood House in Peterborough from the 21th of March to the 25th. The exhibition will be open daily between 10am and 3pm (free entry).
This exhibition showcases work from four PhotoVoice projects - among them Lookout London, that provides young people with the opportunity, the skills and the support to feed their perspectives into the debate on gang and knife crime issues through photography. The Photographic Angle are also supporting six Lookout London project participants to continue developing their photographic skills through a Bursary Scheme.
The aim of the project and the exhibition is to amplify the voices of young people in the discussion about the causes and potential solutions to gang and knife crime issues. It encourages other young people to speak out, and the media and public to consider their voices to be relevant and important in this debate.
Entry Price: FREE
When: 21 - 25th March, 10am - 3pm
Where: Lynchwood House, Peterborough Business Park, Lynchwood, PE2 6FT. See map
VOICES exhibition now in London!
Event date 14 March 2012
VOICES, a travelling photography exhibition by young people is moving to London for 5 days only! Prepared in collaboration with The Photographic Angle.
The Photographic Angle‘s touring photo-exhibition, Voices offers an extraordinary insight into the lives of young people living in London. This exhibition will be visiting Market Towers in Lambeth from the 14th of March to the 18th. The exhibition will be open daily between 10am and 3pm (free entry).
This exhibition showcases work from four PhotoVoice projects - among them Lookout London, that provides young people with the opportunity, the skills and the support to feed their perspectives into the debate on gang and knife crime issues through photography. The Photographic Angle are also supporting six Lookout London project participants to continue developing their photographic skills through a Bursary Scheme.
The aim of the project and the exhibition is to amplify the voices of young people in the discussion about the causes and potential solutions to gang and knife crime issues. It encourages other young people to speak out, and the media and public to consider their voices to be relevant and important in this debate.
Entry Price: FREE
When: 14 - 18th March, 10am - 3pm
Where: Market Towers, 1, Nine Elms Lane, Wandsworth, SW8 5NQ. See map
PICS Festival 2012
Event date 19 May 2012
Photographic Images Changing Society
Saturday 19th May 2012
An amazing panel of speakers confirmed for our festival of photography for social change in May this year, including photographers Simon Norfolk and Ian Berry! PICS Festival is prepared in collaboration with a debate platform GlobalNet21.
Migrant Resource Centre Workshops
Posted 28 February 2012
On Friday 24th February PhotoVoice’s Matt Daw and Clare Struthers delivered a photography and citizen journalism workshop for ten members of the Migrants Resource Centre: Engaging Communities Project, in partnership with GlobalNet21.
The workshop is one of the events and meet-ups being organized in the lead up to the PICS Festival in May 2012, and introduced those attending to the potential of photography as a way to speak out and be heard. Participants were introduced to the different styles and purposes of photography, and were given tips to increase the quality of their photographs and their power to communicate a message or a story. The photos accompanying this post are the results of an exercise to explore the area around the workshop venue – Whitecross Street in East London – and create a photograph that captures and conveys a particular perspective on it.
VOICES - a new travelling exhibiton
Event date 07 March 2012
An exhibition of photography by young people by The Photographic Angle in collaboration with PhotoVoice.
7th – 11th March 2012, Redwing & Kestrel House, Milton Keynes, MK7 6TT
The Photographic Angle’s touring photo-exhibition, Voices offers an extraordinary insight into the lives of young people living in London. This exhibition will be visiting Redwing House and Kestralel House in Milton Keynes from the 7th of March to the 11th. The exhibition will be open daily between 10am and 3pm (free entry). This exhibition showcases work from PhotoVoice’s Lookout London project, that provides young people with the opportunity, the skills and the support to feed their perspectives into the debate on gang and knife crime issues through photography.
The aim of the project and the exhibition is to amplify the voices of young people in the discussion about the causes and potential solutions to gang and knife crime issues. It encourages other young people to speak out, and the media and public to consider their voices to be relevant and important in this debate.
Entry Price: FREE
For more information about this event, click here.
Date: 7th Mar 2012 10:00am
Last Entry: 2:45pm
Venue:
Redwing House And Kestrel House
Kents Hill Park, Timbold
Milton Keynes
MK7 6TT
Free app from Silvershotz Journal of Contemporary Photography
Posted 27 February 2012
Silvershotz Journal of Contemporary Photography is pleased to offer a free app and download of its 2008 Folio magazine, available now on the iTunes store for iPhone and iPad.
Founded in 1998, Silvershotz provides information and inspiration on contemporary photography. This image rich journal features folios from landscape to abstract, social documentary to still life.
Silvershotz has offices in the UK and Australia and is now distributed in 1400 bookstores in 17 countries.
Support our London Marathon runner!
Posted 24 February 2012
The London Marathon is coming up and we are lucky enough to have Georgia Quenby running for us!
You will find her fundraising page here so please do support her if you can.
The London Marathon is one of the largest annual fundraising events on the planet – runners have raised over £500 million for good causes since the race began in 1981. This year’s edition will take place on 22nd April.
If you are doing an event yourself and want to support our projects, please email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
TPA Bursary Scheme off to a flying start!
Posted 24 February 2012
The Photographic Angle are generously supporting six PhotoVoice project participants to continue developing their photographic skills through a Bursary Scheme that we are excited to have kicked off earlier this month!
The six successful recipients are:
Nathaniel Williams
Bianca Tennant
Angelika Stolarz
Sansha Edwin
Victoria Omobuwajo
Venesha Cunningham
They are all very talented and engaged young people who last year took part in our Lookout London project where they explored the issues surrounding gangs and knife crime through their photographic perspectives.
Last weekend we held an intial ‘Introduction to SLR Camera’ workshop with the participants at the community photography project FotoSynthesis, run by Ingrid Guyon, who had this to say about the participants at the end of the workshop:
“It went very well. They are amazing, inspired and inspiring, dedicated and on time individuals!”
We will continue to run a variety of photographic workshops with them over the coming months and help to support them develop their personal projects - so watch this space!
Voice of Freedom - Leila Segal meets formerly enslaved women in Israel
Posted 22 February 2012
Delina came with her three children from Eritrea. Her mother paid the journey across the desert - through the Sinai… Her husband is in jail in Eritrea for refusing to serve in the military. She will never see him again.
Writer and PhotoVoice facilitator Leila Segal shares extracts from her diary written during a trip to research a Photovoice project with formerly enslaved women in Israel.
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Leila Segal spent January in Israel, putting down the foundations for a PhotoVoice project with formerly enslaved women in a safehouse in Petach Tikva. These are extracts from her diary during her trip. For more information about the project - Voice of Freedom - and to support us in raising the funds to start the workshops please see below.
3 January
The women I am working with were raped and kept in chains in the Sinai desert. They were forced to phone home then tortured so their families could hear their screams. When the families paid the ransom, the women were set free to run to the border with Israel where soldiers picked them up and took them to jail.
6 January
Today I made a cup of tea for an Eritrean woman who crossed the border into Israel three days ago with her eight-year-old son. She is 20. He is nearly as tall as she is and walks slightly in front, reaching back for her arm.
‘Make it very sweet,’ says Didi. I put three teaspoons of sugar in. The woman is shivering; she has come in to the shelter off the street.
‘How long were you in the Sinai?’ asks Didi.
‘Two months.’
‘Good, in the Sinai?’ The woman looks down at her lap. ‘No good in the Sinai,’ says Didi.
There are chocolate biscuits. The woman will not eat hers, but gives it to the boy.
9 January
In the shelter lives a three-year-old girl whose brother was shot dead by Egyptian soldiers as he raised the barbed wire for them to cross into Israel. The girl was in her brother’s arms.
11 January
An Eritrean girl. She speaks fluent Hebrew. Four years here, she goes to school. An Eritrean girl who lives in a room with three other families; a small bare room crowded with beds. A small dark bare room where three families and their children must live. Israel has taught her Hebrew but all the little brothers cry in Tigrinya.
13 January
I spent this afternoon talking with the Eritrean women in the shelter; they showed me their beautiful children, and we played.
It is hard for me to understand: why would you crush these flowers beneath the heel of your boot?
16 January
Some of the women arrive in Israel pregnant. Children of the slave masters; of fathers with no face, of gang rape. One woman can not keep the child within her; she must put him out. She is too many months. She fights to stop it. She fights against the birth.
19 January
Delina (name changed) came with her three children from Eritrea. Her mother paid the journey across the desert - through the Sinai. She married when she was 16 - ‘little marry, no good!’ She points to her eldest child: ‘first, 17, I have this! ... 18, I have this!’ - points to the second boy. ‘And now this!’ - the baby, in her arms.
Her husband is in jail in Eritrea for refusing to serve in the military. She will never see him again. ‘I go Eritrea, I jail.’ She can never go back.
21 January
It is very cold in Tel Aviv. Three families do not have enough blankets to stay warm tonight. Delina has no bedding at all. I have put out a call to friends in Tel Aviv, if anyone has spare blankets, please call.
22 January
I have seen a man look down at two Eritrean children playing like puppies in the soft blanket he brought them and afterwards weep tears.
23 January
I knocked on the door of Delina’s room but there was nobody there. I put the hand cream and baby flu medicine on a shelf, and the chocolate and two yoghurts on the sink beside her pot. There was no kitchen so Delina kept her pot and knife on the sink.
Her two boys ran about the street outside. A man named Thomas, who said he was from Nigeria, played with them in the darkness.
‘Abodah! Abodah!’ the women shouted up at me, waving their fists. ‘Delina - abodah!’
Glossary: Abodah - work, Hebrew, as spoken by the Eritrean women (normally avodah)
Voice of Freedom - Photography by formerly enslaved women
PhotoVoice, in partnership with advocacy organisation René Cassin and photographer Leila Segal, are seeking funding to launch Voice of Freedom, a participatory photography project in Israel for formerly enslaved women. This project will empower the women by enabling them to document their lives, feelings and experiences through the camera, and by supporting them to create texts in their own words to accompany the images they create. It will culminate in high-profile exhibitions of their words and photography in both Israel and the UK, and a high quality coffee table book of their work, thereby raising awareness of the broader issue of modern-day slavery and of the responsibility of individuals in society to play their part in eradicating it.
The project will be based at the Ma’agan Safe House for trafficked women in Petach Tikva, Israel. The safe house, run by the Israeli Ministry of Welfare, shelters women who were trafficked to Israel for the purpose of sex slavery, and who have now escaped. Some of the women in the shelter have given evidence against their former captors, as well as suffering traumatic and violent journeys to reach Israel.
Israel’s unique position at the juncture of Asia, Africa and Europe; its state of development; and its relatively democratic system make it prone to abuse by traffickers and those who exploit and dehumanise persons through slavery. Sex trafficking (both internal and external), child labour, forced labour and bonded labour all exist in Israel.
Sex traffickers prey on women seeking to leave desperate conditions in Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa. Over 80% of the women involved in the prostitution trade in East Jerusalem have been trafficked. However, the incidence of sex trafficking has declined markedly since Israel passed its Anti-Trafficking Law in 2006. In contrast, the incidence of child labour has reportedly risen by 130% in the last decade; and forced labour and bonded labour are also on the rise.
Please help us make this project happen
We need your help to make this project a reality. Any support you can give will help us move forward and change the lives of these women, and work towards a society that will not tolerate exploitation and enslavement.
Donate here (quote ‘Voice of Freedom’ in the message box to have your donation restricted to this project)
Thank you
Picture That! Workshops with young people with Autism
Posted 21 February 2012
A group of amazing young people with Autism and Aspergers explore the theme of self-identity through our photographic workshops in Bromley.
We have just completed our Picture That!, four-day workshop (14-17 February 2012) in Bromley, working with young people with Autism and Aspergers. We had one aim - to create a fun space where they could learn new photographic skills whilst building their self confidence during their half term break. The participants, aged between 12 and 15, explored the theme of self-identity and children’s rights through a variety of activities.
We would like to thank all of our participants for their incredible imaginations, our fantastic volunteers for their time and involvement and the very helpful staff at Hawes Down Centre, where the set of workshops were hosted.
“I really enjoyed doing the Bromley workshop, and learned a lot about myself in the process. I had never worked with children on the autistic spectrum before, so it was a challenge, but one that was well rewarded by interacting with the kids, seeing how much they got out of it, how well they worked together and what great photographs they were taking by the end of the week. Just the lovely goodbye they all gave me on the last day made it all so worthwhile, and I left on a real high! This is the first time I’ve worked with Photovoice, and it was a very valuable, rewarding experience, that I won’t forget.”
Millie Burton, PhotoVoice volunteer
Due to the success of the workshop alongside the positive feedback from the young people, their parents and volunteers, we are already planning another set of workshops during the Easter break - so watch this space!
Is this acceptable representation of young people?
Posted 14 February 2012
Channel 4’s new billboard campaign for Big Fat Gypsy Wedding seems to hinge on the presentation of children from a gypsy community as humourous cultural stereotpyes. Would they choose to be portrayed in this light if they fully understood the reaction the posters are intended to have?
The London Gypsy and Traveller Unit are today protesting outside Channel 4. Their beef with the media giant is that their recent campaign advertising a news series of the - arguably already exploitative - Big Fat Gypsy Wedding reverses years of anti-stigma work by presenting young members of the community in way that emphasises and mocks their ethnic characteristics and lifestyle.
When I first saw one of these adverts - a huge billboard looming over passing traffic on Old Street - I couldn’t believe my eyes. I don’t know the programme, but it seemed instantly to me that I was being presented with a spectacle intended to amuse or amaze. The huge but cryptic (to someone who doesn’t have their finger on the pulse of TV) words across the face of a perfectly normal looking freckled boy read ‘Bigger. Fatter. Gypsier’. The first two words just seem inappropriate. The last is inconceivable in today’s world. In short, the advert presents a boy’s recognisable face and asks us to make a huge number of assumptions about him based on his being a member of an ethnic minority. No other context is offered.
Another version of the advert shows two young girls dressed in colourful and revealing outfits as if ready to go out. It’s the kind of photo that teenage girls are bound to take - proud of how they look and perhaps not savvy enough to think about what assumptions others might make upon seeing such photographs. Of course irrelevant if you are only keeping them as memories or sharing with friends. Less relevant nowadays when distant acquaintances and complete strangers might come across photos on Facebook - and this is an increasing worry for parents. No one, however, would reasonably expect such photos to be picked up by a reputable media company and blown up to massive proportions on billboards around the country.
The London Gypsy and Traveller Unit mocked up an advert that uses a similar format, changing ‘Bigger, Fatter, Gypsier’ for ‘Bigger, Blingier, Blacker’. Their argument is that one can clearly see that such a campaign would be unacceptable - hinged as it is on unrepresentative stereotyping by race - but that it is actually no different than the BFGW campaign’s approach. I would go one step further and say that if they wanted to create an advert just as shockingly exploitative and unacceptable they should have used a child. No matter what release forms Channel 4 might have from the families of the children in the campaign - and I would be surprised if there was not a financial incentive to sign - there should clearly be an element of judgement by the broadcasters and advertising company as to what is socially and morally acceptable. Whatever the aspirations of these young people and the opportunities available to them in the future, it will be a long time before they are anything other than ‘bigger, fatter and gypsier’ to their peers.
Matt Daw
Projects Manager, PhotoVoice
A message from The London Gypsy and Traveller Unit
We are protesting outside the head office of channel 4 on Tues 14th at 12.30 – please come if you can or write and complain to the advertising standards agency – details below.
It would not be acceptable to stereotype other ethnic groups or to use children in this way.
Gypsies and Travellers say to channel 4: We have had enough of your big fat mockumentary
“These adverts are stigmatising us by the words and pictures they use. This programme is turning us into something that we are not’’
“These posters are insulting and degrading. It makes me sick to my stomach to use children like this. It’s a wrong portrayal of our community and my children are hiding in school because of it’’
(Members of the Hackney Traveller community)
If you agree then please speak out.
Complain to the advertising standards agency www.asa.org.uk
Also complain directly to channel 4 at www.channel4.com or ring 0845 076 0191
Join us this afternoon - Tuesday 14th Feb 12.30 pm - to protest outside the head office of Channel 4. We will be delivering a letter of complaint and hope to get some media coverage.
Meet at 11am at LGTU 6 Westgate Street, Hackney E8 3RN
Or Meet at 12.30pm outside Channel 4
124 Horseferry Road, SW1P 2TX
Nearest underground : St James Park / Westminster / Victoria
OR 24 Bus
PhotoVoice at the London Art Fair - how did it go?
Posted 26 January 2012
London Art Fair 2012 came to an end last Sunday. Read about the highlights of our involvement and listen to the best bits of our panel debate!
Full of amazing exhibitors, inspiring talks and hidden art treasures(have you seen robots that can draw your portrait or the real time video painting?), this year’s London Art Fair finished last Sunday.
We were delighted by the amount of interest in our work and would like to thank all of you who visited our stall, expressed interest in getting involved, or simply shared their own photographic experiences.
After seeing all the funky stuff at the Fair, PhotoVoice is a breath of fresh air, said a teacher from East London, who was thrilled to get her school involved in our Lookout London touring exhibition (you can too!) and use our Waiting teaching resource (available online).
The BIGGEST thank you goes to our volunteers! Ingrid, Anthony, Pavla, Marc, Susana, Jeni, Ashley and Caroline - you were amazing!
CAN IT OR HAS IT?
The highlight of our presence at the London Art Fair was the panel debate “Airbrushing the world: Can photography change society?” hosted by PhotoVoice Project Manager, Matt Daw and attended by four amazing photographers.
Listen to the highlights of the talk (order of appearance: Ania Dabrowska, Jess Crombie, Stephen Sidlo and Jenny Matthews)
Is your browser blocking access to this? Download the MP3 file to listen to locally: http://www.photovoice.org/Audio/laf2012.mp3
Lots of different issues were raised surrounding the main theme - the perpetual discussion on image fatigue (Does it exist or not?), the importance of streaming images into the right audience, or the accountability of photographers, journalists and news agencies (Who is ultimately responsible for using photos out of their original context?).
Ania Dabrowska, the documentary and fine art photographer, talked about her work with PhotoVoice (World Vision, Lookout London), her eye-opening project on dementia prepared in collaboration with Wellcome Trust, and the importance of historical memory and fighting stigmas.
One day, a man from Lebanon came to me with suitcases full of negatives. He used to be a journalist in his country and was documenting the life and social rituals of his people for nearly 30 years. We need to find a way to preserve it.
Jess Crombie, Head of Film and Photography at Save the Children, recognized the power of images to convey messages.
Stephen Sidlo, the editor of Demotix, a citizen journalism website, and Jenny Matthews, the photojournalist, talked about the danger of using images for manipulation.
Again, thank you all who attended (it was fully booked!) and hope you enjoyed it just as we did, one hour was definitely too short!
Can photography change society? Join our discussion on Facebook!
Rights! Cameras! Action! News from Scotland
Posted 20 January 2012
Becky Duncan, PhotoVoice’s facilitator and consultant in Scotland, talks about the launch of the RCA project in the Scottish Parliament.
The Scottish contribution to the Rights! Camera Action! Project kicked off in August 2011. It was a typical weathery day in a west coast Scotland town: all four seasons crammed into a day’s worth of sky. The group of young people producing the work was similarly typical: all varying skills and unique insights, but a commonality of culture and experience regarding their rights brought them together.
We discussed photos from around the world and thought about how to portray issues through images. We had a detailed discussion on the UNHCR Rights of the Child Convention. Many rights they took for granted, but quite a few were a surprise to the group. Coming from difficult backgrounds, many didn’t realise their views were supposed to be respected, that they should be protected from violence, that they had a right to play and relax. We talked. Then we got creative.
The issues chosen and images produced by the group went forward for inclusion in the Rights! Camera! Action! Exhibition, which ran at the Scottish Parliament from 12th to 16th December 2011. Around 20 young people’s photographs and captions relating to different rights were displayed in the working wing of Holyrood, right under the noses of the Members of Scottish Parliament.
Golds, greens, lighter yellows, deep reds and the odd blue MSPs whizzed past the exhibition, several times a day. Over the course of the week most MSPs saw the work. Many stopped to chat. Many were impressed. On one occasion, an MSP approached me and told me that her inaugural speech in the debating chamber had been around Article 31: “Children have the right to relax and play and to join in a wide range of cultural, artistic and other recreational activities”. She had a proud smile. She’s still there, years later, ensuring that right is withheld.
The young people involved in this project shared experiences, learned new skills and collectively considered their rights. They got creative and they spread their message. Many MSPs saw and absorbed these messages. Some MSPs were even reminded what drove them to public service. I’d say that’s a pretty successful project. I feel privileged to have seen the Rights in Action.
The RCA booklet - listing 42 articles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and featuring photos taken by PhotoVoice’s workshops’ participants - is now available! If interested, please email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Also, visit our Rights! Cameras! Action! multimedia resource!
“Waiting” teaching resource available online!
Posted 06 January 2012
We have just launched a great teaching resource as part of our “Waiting” project dealing with homelessness among young people in Scotland.
More information on the project
PhotoVoice gives a talk at the London Art Fair!
Event date 18 January 2012
Take part in a our panel discussion at the London Art Fair on 18th January.
Come along and check out our stall at this year’s London Art Fair, 18-22 January 2012, Business Design Centre, Islington, London, N1.
We will also be hosting a panel discussion on Wednesday 18th January, 12-1pm, on the subject: Airbrushing the world: Can photography change society?
The aim is hear from professionals with different experiences and perspectives on how photography can be used as a tool for social change, which will then be opened to the floor for questions and debate about the role of photography in bringing about change in behaviour, policy and practice.
Panel members include:
Ania Dabrowska
Ania is a fine art photographer whose practice is extremely socially engaged. She recently received a lot of publicity for her acclaimed ‘Mind Over Matter’ study into Dementia and Alzheimers. She has also been a facilitator on a number of PhotoVoice’s participatory photography projects, including recently the Lookout London project with young people in London being supported to engage positively with gangs and knife crime issues through photography.
Stephen Sidlo
Publishing Editor of Demotix – the citizen journalism website that allows anyone to upload their photo-stories to be pitched to the international media.
Matt Daw
Projects Manager at PhotoVoice.
Jess Crombie
Head of Film and Photography, Save the Children, and Chair of the Humanising Photography group.
Jenny Matthews
Photojournalist with many years of experience documenting conflict zones and issue-affected communities nationwide. She is currently working on a follow-up to her acclaimed book ‘Women and War’
To book your London Art Fair ticket, click here
To book your place for the talk, click here
“Migration, Stories of a Journey” International Photography Award
Posted 20 December 2011
PhotoVoice is thrilled to support the ‘Migration, Stories of a Journey’ International Photography Award launched by Accademia Apulia.
With the Patronage of Amnesty International, the British Council, the European Commission Representation in the UK and the International Organisation for Migration, Accademia Apulia UK is pleased to announce the opening of submissions for their 2011 Photography Award.
‘Migration, Stories of a Journey’ is aimed at promoting emerging photographers of all nationalities based in the European Economic Community whose work explores the lives and development of migrants worldwide.
The focus of this award is to highlight migrants’ struggle and difficulties as they seek a better life in their
adopted country.
Entrants will be assessed by leading figures in the fields of Photography and Journalism:
Barbara Roche - Migration Museum Project
Diane Smyth - British Journal of Photography
Jennifer Francis - The Royal Academy of Arts
John Ingledew - University of Gloucestershire
Lucilla and Fabrizio Barbieri - Coppi Barbieri
Stefano Tura – RAI
Steve Macleod – Metro Imaging
Susan Jenkins - The Art Newspaper
Prize
Three finalists will be revealed on 10 January 2012 and the winner on 10 Feb 2012. Their works will be
showcased in a group exhibition curated by Elisa Canossa at the Royal Horseguards in London. The three
finalists will be flown in as guests of Accademia Apulia for two nights. The winner will also receive € 1000
cash prize.
Entries opened on 18th October 2011 and are free. The closing date for entries is 30 December 2011.
To enter the competition please visit www.accademiapulia.org
How equal are young people? The Right Year For Children launch
Posted 19 December 2011
Two great events inaugurated the launch of The Right Year For Children celebrating the 20th anniversary of the UK ratifying the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
No children allowed?
On 15th December, an exhibition showcasing photographs and messages from young people across the country opened at Matrix Chambers, one of the elite barristers’ organization specializing in liberties and human rights. It was followed by an equality workshop for young (under 18 year-olds) child activists and with attendance of some great experts on law, equality and children’s rights.
Carolyne Willow, National Co-ordinator of the Children’s Rights Alliance for England started off by posing a fundamental question - How equal are the children and young people in England today?
Two of the country’s leading discrimination barristers, Karon Monaghan QC of Matrix Chambers and Ulele Burnham of Doughty Street Chambers, stressed the importance of the Equality Act and how it applies to young people’s lives: Karon in her talk on Why we have an Equality Act and why it’s relevant to children and young people, and Ulele in her discussion on Challenging discrimination: real-life stories.
All the participants were asked to bring one object, photograph or picture that they feel symbolizes how children and young people are treated in the UK today. A dice, a wooden box with a sticker on it saying “No children allowed”, a school trophy, a candle and more - all gathered at the workshop table reflecting young people’s personal view on the matter.
Footprints to No. 10 Downing Street
On 16th December, a group of 19 children and young people marched to the Prime Minister HQ to deliver messages from thousands of children all over the country, marking the 20th anniversary of the UK signing up to the UNCRC. They were accompanied by the representatives of four organizations that form the steering Committee of the Right Year For Children celebrations: Alicia Jones of UNICEF, Carolyne Willow of CRAE, Matt Daw and Clare Struthers of PhotoVoice, and Kate Parish of Pupil Voice & Participation England.
Children sent their messages on paper footprints, each footprint symbolizing one signature on this unusual petition, aiming to remind the government to remember young people’s rights when creating new laws and policies.
One of the participants, 18 year-old Rory Murray from Bracknell, told Children&Young People Now:
“It’s an important moment to mark the 20th anniversary. A lot has been achieved in 20 years, especially around giving children the special protection they need, but much more needs to be done. In the next 20 years I hope to see the UNCRC brought into our domestic law. The government is getting there on listening to children but they still have a long way to go.”
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child gives children everywhere over 40 major rights, including the right to education, family support, an adequate standard of living, to health, to play and recreation, to protection from all forms of violence, and the right to be heard and taken seriously. The Convention requires that all children be respected as human beings with views, feelings and ideas of their own.
Unlike many countries, the UK still hasn’t made the Convention part of its domestic law.
Rights! Cameras! Action! resource launch!
Posted 16 December 2011
Our RCA multimedia resource launches with exhibition in Scottish parliament, Edinburgh and Matrix Chambers, London.
In the photo: Sarah White MSP by our RCA exhibition stand.
Double your money if you donate!
Posted 14 December 2011
PhotoVoice has nearly £4,000 match funding available from its Big Give Christmas Challenge.
Make a donation and it will be matched.
Make a donation to PhotoVoice and it will be matched pound-for-pound! After the Big Give, we still have nearly £4,000 of funding from an annonymous donor available to match your donation.
Please donate whatever you can and help PhotoVoice continue its innovative work in using photography to connect the marginalised to the majority.
BIG THANKS in advance and Merry Christmas to you all!
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PhotoVoice Prints For Sale
Posted 07 December 2011
Looking for an exceptional gift this Christmas?
We have a number of prints for sale ideal for that special Christmas gift, from artists including, Sarah Moon, Laura Pannack & John Swannell to name a few!.
Click here for a full inventory of what we have on offer.
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Interview with our new Director, Kevin McCullough
Posted 07 December 2011
A big, warm welcome to our new Director, Kevin McCullough! We are very excited to have him with us & we are sure he is up for a challenge of steering the PhotoVoice ship!
We asked Kevin a few questions about his work, his favourite music and the challenges awaiting in 2012…
Kevin, where are you from and what is your background?
I am originally from Belfast and have had 20 years experience in international development working for organisations including Christian Aid and CAFOD. In the last 4 years I have been doing some work on funding social justice documentary films.
What attracted you to PhotoVoice?
I have known of PhotoVoice’s work for some years. I am concerned about issues of visual representation within the charity sector generally and the international NGOs in particular. PhotoVoice methodology ensures that those who are often the subjects of photography can become its creators, thereby offering a new perspective that challenges people’s prejudice. Through photography the participants are engaged in speaking out about their situations and challenges and expressing their hopes and fears. In this way, photography becomes a tool for advocacy and positive social change.
What are your plans for PhotoVoice in 2012?
It’s still early days – I’ve only been here a week!
I’m very excited about the projects we have in development for next year. Whilst these are tough financial times for the charity sector PhotoVoice supporters are some of the most loyal and generous. I would hope to build upon the excellent work that has gone on before me and engage more deeply with our supporters to build a solid financial future. In the not-to-distant future, I’d like marginalised communities to be leading that process of social change, not just part of it.
Any PhotoVoice project you cherish most?
There are so many excellent PV projects – Visible Rights working with children in Afghanistan, more recently Lookout London working with young people who have experienced homelessness and knife crime and Rights, Cameras, Action raising awareness children’s rights and the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child to name a few. Working with effective partners who are calling for policy change on specific issues is important. For us at PhotoVoice we can play a part in the advocacy process through the tool of photography and story telling. Last week I heard the stories of two young people living in east London and how the Lookout project was potentially life changing for them. By giving expression to their fears and their hopes for the future, the project is succeeding where so many others had fallen short.
Any upcoming PhotoVoice project you are particularly excited about?
The next phases of Lookout and Rights Cameras Action will be very exciting. There are two or three other projects we are working on which are sensitive, complex and yet cutting edge areas of work. What I love about PhotoVoice is that the projects undertaken are not safe but are always attempting to offer space for the visual voice of people living in vulnerable and difficult situations and yet through the experience of the project participants often see their situations in a different way.
What is the biggest challenge for you as Director of a non profit organization?
To continue to be effective, efficient and excellent in what we do. Staying close to our values and finding more ways of involving the wonderful community that is PhotoVoice.
What was the most challenging campaign you have ever worked on?
Make Poverty History - it was big in scale and in its demands of the world’s leaders at the G8. A campaign which engaged some 25 million people in the UK and marching with 250,000 people in Edinburgh was truly inspirational and yet the year had many challenges.
What do you do in your free time?
I am involved in a voluntary capacity with an international charity using sport as a tool for conflict resolution and community development and I’m a mentor for some youth projects in southern Africa. Apart from that reading, music, visits to the cinema, theatre and watching sport.
Tea or coffee?
Coffee – preferably Irish!
Favourite band?
Sorry, it’s Classic FM in the background for me and U2, the Beatles, Kanye West and my son’s band Mammoth Sound (not my style but you have to be supportive!)
If you weren’t working in a charity sector, what would you be doing?
Scoring the winning goal for Leeds United in the Cup Final! Then waking up and fishing from Mangochi on Lake Malawi!
The Right Year For Children launches this week!
Event date 16 December 2011
The Right Year for Children is coming up next Friday (16th December). How will we celebrate?
16th December 2011 marks 20 years since the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) was formerly adopted by the UK.
EVENTS
Throughout 2011 PhotoVoice has been working with young people all around the UK in order to gather their thoughts and experiences on the relevance and importance of child rights to their lives. The young people involved have included Young Carers, Looked After Young People, Homeless Young People and Disabled Young People.
On December 16th PhotoVoice and Action for Children will launch an online multimedia resource at www.rightscamerasaction.org.uk to inform and engage young people across the UK about UNCRC. A booklet will also be produced to be used as a classroom tool and to signpost the online resource.
PhotoVoice are to showcase this rights-based work in Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh in December, to coincide with the 20th anniversary and with a UK-wide press campaign based on raising awareness of this significant landmark.
The exhibition will showcase photographs and messages directly from young people, bringing their voices to the discussion and reminding MPs and public audiences alike of the importance of their perspectives and their engagement in the implementation of any policies or initiatives designed to improve their lives.
On 15th December 2011 exactly the same exhibition will be showcased in Matrix Chambers in London to coincide with an equality workshop for young people, as part of the launch publicity for the Right Year for Children.
On 16th December, young people will march to 10 Downing Street to present footprints from young people all over the UK to remind the government to remember young people and their rights when developing policies and laws.
RIGHT YEAR FOR CHILDREN LOGO
16 year-old Trishna Jethwa from Leicester was the winner of a nation-wide competition for children and young people to create a universal logo to mark the 20th anniversary of ratifying the UNCRC. Organisations working with children and young people, including the Government and local councils, will be encouraged to use the logo as part of their work and commitment to promote and protect children’s rights.
Carolyne Willow, CRAE’s national co-ordinator, adds:
“We hope the winning logo will be used by hundreds of organisations and will really help to increase people’s knowledge and understanding of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Our country signed up to this human rights treaty 20 years ago and we want to get the message out loud and clear that children and young people have their own set of rights protected by international law.”
On 21st November, Trishna claimed her prize by having her design made into a professional logo by PhotoVoice Ambassador Adrian Nunn at the design agency The Big Window who generously donated their time, whilst also meeting Maggie Atkinson, the Children’s Commissioner for England.
Check out our blog regularly for updates and coverage of all the RYC events!
For more information on the project: click here.
Lookout London Exhibition Launch!
Posted 02 December 2011
The Lookout London exhibition launch went off with a bang last night!
Special thanks to all those who came down to enjoy the evening & of course all those project participants, partners & funders who made it possible. The books flew off the table like hot cakes, the travelling exhibition looked great in its debut in the limelight, and lots of the young photographers were there to celebrate their achievement and speak to visitors about their photos and messages. Bianca from Homerton Space Project, and James from Stephen House both spoke very eloquently about their experience on the project, and the evening came to an end too soon for many of us!
A special mention to Hackney Borough Council for generously funding the event & the Crisis Skylight Cafe for superbly hosting it!
The travelling exhibition will now be moving on to Lambeth Council where it will be exhibited in libraries across the borough, helping to widen the reach & impact of this campaign within the capital. Poster versions of the same exhibition materials are available for schools - if you are interested in displaying these materials (provided by PhotoVoice at no cost to you) to generate discussion amongst young people at your school please email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Get in touch soon as there are a limited number of poster sets available!
We are not restricting the reach of this project to London either. PhotoVoice has partnered with a fantastic charity called The Photographic Angle, which has the aim of introducing new audiences to photography by touring pop-up exhibitions and taking photography out of galleries and into public spaces and informal spaces. TPA will be touring an exhibition of the work from the Lookout London project all around the UK – watch our website and sign up to the PhotoVoice newsletter to be kept informed of the venues and dates when they are confirmed.
And what next? Well Lookout London is hopefully just the start. The issues we are trying to address are not exclusive to London, and in the next phase of this project we hope to work in a similar way in other parts of the UK – including Manchester, Liverpool, Southampton and Glasgow. PhotoVoice and Chapter 1 will be working together on this next phase, and involving other organisations working with young people to include young people from as diverse backgrounds as possible. If you would like more information about this, or if you think you or your organisation could get involved in some way, please do get in touch by emailing Project Manager Matt Daw - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
If you would like to host the travelling exhibition in your community space - whether it is a library, community centre, service centre, job centre or museum - please email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) to arrange a date.
To request copies of the book - for yourself or for distribution in your school or youth club, please contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
*Lookout London exhibition, showcasing works on gang culture and knife crime, will be touring schools and libraries in south London.
Where is it now and what are the next stops?
Downham Library
5th - 11th December
Downham Health & Leisure Centre
7-9 Moorside Road, Bromley, BR1 5EP
Map: click here
Catford Library
12th - 18th December
1 Catford Road, London SE6 4RU
Map: click here
Lewisham Library
from 19th December
199-201 Lewisham High Street, London, SE13 6LG
Map: click here
Don’t miss it!
For more information on the project
VOICES Exhibition Now in Birmingham
Event date 06 December 2011
Previously showcased with a great success at the Hereford Photography Festival, VOICES exhibition moves to BOA in Birmingham.
Part of our international project See it Our Way that focuses on the problem of human trafficking and features photo works of young people from Albania, Lebanon or Pakistan, VOICES exhibition travels from Hereford to BOA, a fantastic creative venue in Birmingham. VOICES is a collaboration between PhotoVoice and The Photographic Angle, an organisation that transforms public spaces into temporary photo galleries.
Lookout London exhibition launch!
Posted 29 November 2011
A BIG thank you to all who came along to the Lookout London exhibition launch - a good time was had by all!
Lookout London poster campaign launched!
Posted 23 November 2011
Check out our Lookout London poster campaign recently launched across the capital - keep an eye out for a poster near you!
If anyone would like to help us broaden our campaign reach by putting up a few posters in your local area to then please contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) & I’ll send some out to you!
Posters showcasing at the Southside Shopping Centre, Wandsworth
Special thanks to all at Shahmoon tv for the generous charity discount on the street ads
PhotoVoice Auction 2011 Preview Exhibition
Event date 14 November 2011
A preview exhibition of prints in the PhotoVoice Auction of Exceptional Photographs 2011, which is open for public viewing.
Date:
Monday 14th - Friday 18th November
Opening hours to the general public:
11am-6pm, late night Thursday to 7.30pm
Venue:
La Galleria Pall Mall, 30 Royal Opera Arcade, London, SW1Y 4UY
view map
Nearest tube: Piccadilly Circus or Charing Cross
The Silent Auction is now open!
See our online catalogue for all our silent auction lots and details of how to bid!
For details of the Auction night, which takes place on Tuesday 22nd November, and to book tickets please click here.
Auction catalogue
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The PhotoVoice Auction 2011 was a great success!
Event date 22 November 2011
This years Auction was a great success enjoyed by all who attended, and included some brand new features such as the preview exhibition and the Silent Auction text bidding system.
More information and to view images
A BIG thank you to all that attended and helped make the PhotoVoice Auction of Exceptional Photographs 2011 such a success!
We are very pleased to announce that the overall amount raised was just over £70,000!
It was the first year we’ve introduced text bidding within the Silent Auction and it added an extra element of excitment on the night.
It was also the first year we held a preview exhibition of the prints the week prior to the event at La Galleria, Pall Mall, which everyone who attended also thoroughly enjoyed.
For more details about this year’s Auction and to view the online catalogue, click here.
Watch this slideshow showcasing a selection of the projects and interviews with their participants from 2011:
PhotoVoice Auction previewed in Sunday Times online Spectrum gallery!
Posted 10 November 2011
The PhotoVoice Auction of Exceptional Photographs 2011 was previewed in the Sunday Times online Spectrum gallery on 6th November 2011 - check out the photos!
Festival Fever at PhotoVoice!
Posted 04 November 2011
PhotoVoice has been a big success recently at both the Hereford Photography Festival and the Delhi Photo Festival
Our Walk in My Shoes exhibition travelled down to Hereford for the festival, complete with new QR codes for instant audio download - see the wonders of technology in action!
Also as part of the festival our very own projects manager Matt Daw together with Anthony Riley of The Photographic Angle, gave a seminar in the use of participatory photography to bring about social change @Fotofilia Gallery in Birmingham on Monday 31st October. Check out the pics!
A slideshow combining work from our See It Our Way and Direct Voices projects, was also a big success at the Delhi Photo Festival. Check out their blog
Donate between 5 – 9 December and your donation will be doubled!
Posted 04 November 2011
Get inviolved in the BIG GIVE Christmas Challenge 2011!
Double your money!
Make a donation to PhotoVoice through the BIG GIVE today or tomorrow and it will be matched pound-for-pound! We have a target of £10,000, which if achieved will result in PhotoVoice getting £20,000 – a huge boost to our projects in these difficult times.
We’ve already received nearly £2,000, so we’re well on our way! Please donate whatever you can and help PhotoVoice continue its innovative work in using photogrgaphy to connect the marginalised to the majority.
BIG THANKS in advance and Merry Christmas to you all!
If you want to become a Friend of PhotoVoice click here
Please email your MP today to keep 400 16 and 17 year olds out of prison
Posted 28 October 2011
Please email your MP today asking them to vote against the new knife crime proposals coming before Parliament on Monday.
As you may have heard, the Government announced on Wednesday that it is planning to introduce mandatory prison sentences of at least 4 months for 16 and 17 year olds found guilty of threatening with a knife. This move which could see up to 400 under-18s ending up in prison.
Knife crime is a serious problem for some communities and we agree that urgent action is needed to address it. But we don’t think that prison is the answer. Instead, we need to look at why ¾ of children and young people who report carrying a knife claim to do so for protection. We need to tackle the barriers that still seem to exist in some communities between young people and the police. And given that rates of knife possession are significantly higher amongst children and young people who have been victims themselves, we need to work with young victims of knife crime, to better support them so they don’t think carrying a knife is a solution.
A survey of 15-18 year olds in young offender institutions published earlier this week found that, whilst nearly every single one of the 1000+ teens interviewed wanted to stop offending, only half felt they had done something whilst inside that would help them to stop offending.
If, like us, you think simply putting 16 and 17 year olds in prison is an expensive way of making things worse, please email your MP ahead of the debate in the House of Commons this coming Monday, 31st October, asking them to vote against this amendment.
To find out who your MP is and to email them, click here.
If you only send one email this weekend, please make it this one.
Stories of the World: Geffrye Museum
Posted 17 October 2011
Over the last five weeks young people from the World’s End Estate have worked with staff from the Geffrye Museum and PhotoVoice to learn and develop photography techniques.
Throughout the project the participants have used photography as a way to engage with and think about what ‘home’ means to them. This project has enabled young people to engage in an open dialogue about their homes and has encouraged them to think about them afresh, exploring ‘what makes a home’ and the way they live.
The work displayed in this exhibition are photographs which they feel signify the themes they discussed the most. Participants have also written corresponding captions which gives you an insight into their lives.
PhotoVoice at HPF: October - November 2011
Event date 31 October 2011
PhotoVoice will be showcased at two venues during the Hereford Photography Festival 2011, and will lead a seminar in the use of participatory photography to bring about social change.
Young people speak out through photography about the risks and root causes of human trafficking in their communities.
· Opens on the 31st Oct 2011 - Presentation begins at 5.30pm
· @Fotofilia Gallery Regent Street, Birmingham B1 3NS
· Closes on the 23rd Nov 2011
A short presentation by Matt Daw of PhotoVoice and Antony Riley of TPA introducing the exhibition and the organisations involved will take place in the gallery from 5.30pm on October 31st.
Walk in My Shoes: 12th-26th October Opening Night
Posted 14 October 2011
Thanks to all that made the Walk in My Shoes exhibition opening a great success!
PhotoVoice would like to thank everyone who made it down to the Southside Shopping Centre on Wednesday night, to help us toast the opening of our Walk in My Shoes exhibition & drink all the wine!
It was a great night, enjoyed by all, including the photographers, friends and families, PV staff, facilitators and project partners.
It was an especially good opportunity for our project participants to finally meet each other in person and talk about each other’s work and life experiences. Everyone loved the audio aspect to the photo-trail, Caroline from the Southside Shopping Centre itself, saying how much depth it added to her overall enjoyment of the photographs.
So, if you haven’t had a chance to make it down yet, fear not there’s still plenty of time, as it’s running until 26th October, so why don’t you take 5 minutes out of your day to take a walk in someones elses shoes?
PhotoVoice showcases work at the Delhi Photo Festival
Event date 21 October 2011
PhotoVoice work from the projects See It Our Way surrounding the issues of human trafficking accross the Middle East and Eastern Europe and Direct Voices, exploring issues surrounding HIV and AIDS in Bosnia and Russia, is being exhibited at the Delhi Photo Festival on 21st October, as part of a slideshow showcasing work produced by children/youth around the world.
Enter the Young Photographers’ Alliance (YPA) competition - Deadline is 7 October!
Posted 05 October 2011
YPA will be offering 2 photographers the opportunity to exhibit an image at the Select Photofair in Hoxton. Apply now! Deadline is 7 October!
Enter the Young Photographers’ Alliance (YPA) competition to win a place to exhibit work at the first annual London Select Photofair.
Sell your photography alongside a range of top photographers and promote your work to commercial clients.
Hosted by leading photographic magazine, Select, the fair will showcase the work of over 30 international photographers from 27 Oct- 24 Nov 2011. The Select Photofair will be promoted to collectors, art buyers, and creatives, enabling its artists to sell prints and attract commercial attention from potential clients.
PhotoVoice showcases work at the Delhi Photo Festival
Posted 03 October 2011
PhotoVoice work included as part of a slideshow showcasing youth produced work from around the world at the Delhi Photo Festival 2011 on 21st October 2011.
Announcement of new PhotoVoice Chief Executive
Posted 26 September 2011
Kevin McCullough will be joining PhotoVoice as chief executive on 28th November 2011.
Kevin joins us from CAFOD where he has been Head of Campaigns for the past three years. In that role he led the Climate Justice campaign, has been a member of the DFID Communications group and has been involved with campaigning work for Why Poverty?, a series of documentaries for 50 broadcasters around the world, including the BBC.
Prior to working at CAFOD he had a number of roles at Christian Aid and he started his career as a youth and community worker for Belfast City Council.
He is a founder member and chairperson of Tipping Point Film Fund, a co-operative working in partnership with the Co-Operative Group to fund film directors working on social justice films. He is also a founder member and chairperson of the charity Global Goals, which supports sports development in poor communities around the world.
He will take over from Dominique Green, who has been chief executive since January 2009. Dominique is leaving to expand her existing role as Delegate to the Berlin Film Festival, responsible for the UK and Eire, and return to the film and photography industries as a consultant.
The trustees are extremely grateful for the work that Dominique has put into PhotoVoice over the past two and a half years and thank her for her considerable contribution.
In Kevin we believe that we have an excellent successor who will bring new skills and experience to PhotoVoice in its second decade and we all look forward to working with him.
Eyes of Youth, Albania in partnership with World Vision
Posted 23 September 2011
Workshops have completed in Kurbin, Albania where young people in deprived communities have documented social issues, in order to engage the local community in working towards positive social change.
More information and image gallery
PhotoVoice Supports The Right Year for Children
Posted 21 September 2011
PhotoVoice has teamed up with the Office of Children’s Commissioner, the Office of Children’s Rights Director and many other children’s and young people’s charities to celebrate 20 years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in the UK.
The Right Year for Children 2011-12
PhotoVoice has teamed up with the Office of Children’s Commissioner, the Office of Children’s Rights Director and many other children’s and young people’s charities to celebrate 20 years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in the UK.
In December 1991, the UK Government made a legal agreement with the United Nations uphold and implement the Convention on the Rights of the Child in the United Kingdom. Find out more about the UNCRC.
We are planning a year of action, beginning November 2011, to celebrate the anniversary and seek greater rights protection for children and young people in England. We hope you will join us!
To find out how you may become a partner or supporter of The Right Year for Children, contact: Denise Malcolm at the Office of the Children’s Commissioner: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Lookout London photos to be showcased at police gangs conference
Event date 30 September 2011
Photographs from both Lookout London groups will be showcased at the Police & Criminal Justice conference Tackling Gangs and Serious Youth Violence, on Friday 30th September 2011.
As David Cameron talks about ‘declaring war on gangs’ and the public looks for simple targets to blame the criminal activity that took place during the spree of rioting and looting in August, the perception of young people in Britain is in danger of falling to a new low. Despite the fact that fewer than a quarter of those charged for criminal activity during the riots were under 18, the media coverage and political responses have been filled with references to ‘feral youth’ and ‘violent teenagers’. The issues of gangs and knife crime have gained media prominence once again as if they are connected to the same simple problem – the existence of a disrespectful, uncontrollable and lawless generation.
Representing young people only as part of these social problems damages any attempts to improve the situation on the streets. The implication is that young people are only important or worth talking about when they are engaged in criminal activity, and the pressures and dangers they face themselves are not discussed or dealt with. The issues are to do with poverty, lack of opportunity and boredom, not age, and young people should be engaged in identifying and building solutions rather than being ignored until involved in criminal or anti-social behaviour, and then being stamped on by the legal system.
As police, criminal justice professionals, MPs and youth workers gather in Westminster to discuss the issues and potential solutions, the presence of the work from Lookout London will ensure that young people’s experiences and perspectives are not forgotten.
Image: © Angelika Stolarz 2011 / Chapter 1 / PhotoVoice
Not every dog is angry and wants to bite you.
More about Lookout London project
PhotoVoice congratulates Mr Bezwada Wilson,
Posted 01 September 2011
PhotoVoice congratulates Mr Bezwada Wilson, Convenor of Indian partner organisation Safai Karmachari Andolan on his ‘Real Hero’ award. The awards, given at a ceremony in Mumbai last month, recognise and acknowledge ordinary Indians who are making a difference to people’s lives.
Wilson, along with the Dalit Solidarity Network UK, helped organise our Images of Foul Play project working with Dalits (formerly known as untouchables) to create images for SKA and DSNUK in their campaign to eradicate the practice of manual scavenging - a term used to describe the job of removing human excrement from dry toilets and sewers.
For information about the project see http://www.photovoice.org/projects/international/images-of-foul-play-2010 and http://safaikarmachariandolan.org/articleon%20manualscavenging.php, http://www.dsnuk.org/Manual_Scav.htm
Rights Cameras Action, UK
Posted 01 September 2011
PhotoVoice, in partnership with Action for Children, is currently running workshops with groups of young people all over the UK in order to gather their thoughts and experiences related to the importance of child rights in the UK.
The photos and videos produced by the young people will feed into an online and printed resource aimed at engaging young people in discussing the role of child rights. This resource will be launched in December 2011 to coincide with the start of the RIGHT Year for Children, a year of events and campaigns organised by child-focused UK charities to recognise the 20th anniversary of the ratifying of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) in the UK.
Walk in My Shoes: 12th – 26th October 2011
Event date 12 October 2011
Southside Shopping Centre in Wandsworth hosts a photo-trail of images by PhotoVoice-trained photographers sharing a range of diverse experiences and perspectives on living in Great Britain. Extended to 26th October!
Check out our blog for photos of the opening night!
12th - 26th October 2011
Southside Shopping Centre
Garratt Lane, Wandsworth, London SW18 4TF Map
Nearest tube: East Putney (District Line) / Wandsworth Town Rail
Walk in My Shoes is a photo trail of 13 images by PhotoVoice-trained photographers, and showcases a diverse range of perspectives and experiences on life in Great Britain. Installed in Southside Shopping Centre, this exhibition is designed to challenge people to take a moment out of their own lives and preoccupations to walk in someone else’s shoes.
Visit our information point at Snappy Snaps, 110 Southside to pick up an exhibition guide, leave feedback, and to submit a photograph for our interactive exhibition display of perspectives on life in Great Britain. Anyone leaving feedback will have a chance to win an A2 stretched canvas print of their favourite photograph in the exhibition, and the visitors’ favourite from the interactive exhibition will win a personal photo book. All prizes courtesy of Snappy Snaps.
Download the Audio Trail to listen to soundscape and interviews with the photographers on your mp3 player or mobile phone as you walk the trail. (Downloads as zip folder).
Download and print an exhibition guide, with a map of the trail and an introduction to each of the featured photographers.
Online Exhibition Preview
Click on the thumbnails below to view a larger image and to listen to the accompanying audio track.
Voices - PhotoVoice Travelling Exhibition
Event date 07 September 2011
UK charity The Photographic Angle is collaborating with PhotoVoice to showcase work from four recent projects in an exciting exhibition touring sites in Bristol, Birmingham, Swindon and Maidenhead.
Voices will feature work from recent projects Lookout London, See it Our Way, UR in the Picture and How We See It.
The Photographic Angle holds free exhibitions that travel across the UK transforming vacant spaces into temporary galleries. In this way TPA seeks to give the public more opportunities to engage with the dynamic field of contemporary photography practice. www.thephotographicangle.co.uk
Voices Exhibition Touring Schedule
7-Sep-11 Sat-Wed: Bristol
Venue: Aztec 920 and 930 Park Avenue, Aztec West, Almondsbury, BS324SR
14-Sep-11 Sat-Wed: Swindon
Venue: Kingston Hse, Lydiards Fields, SN5 8UB
21-Sep-11 Sat-Wed: Maidenhead
Venue: The Place, Bridge Avenue, SL61AF
28-Sep-11 Sat-Wed: Bristol
Venue: Lewins Mead,Whitefriars, BS1 2NT
5-Oct-11 Sat-Wed: Birmingham
Venue: Quayside Tower, Broad Street, B12HF
10 images from See it Our Way will also be showcased as part of the Hereford Photography Festival 2011, at Fotofilia (Fotofilia Gallery Regent Street, Birmingham B1 3NS) from October 31st - November 24th 2011.
A presentation and Q&A will take place from 5.30pm on 31st October with representatives from PhotoVoice and TPA present to talk about the project and the rationale behind the democratisation of photography.
Get the Picture: Scottish Parliament
Posted 23 August 2011
Young Scottish people are offered the chance to showcase their views, issues and lives in Scotland, as well as give them the opportunity to present their aspirations for Scotland over the next 5 years.
More details and online gallery
Lookout London: Homerton Group
Posted 18 August 2011
Young people in supported housing in Homerton reflect on the impact gang and knife crime issues have on their lives, as part of our ongoing project helping young people to challenge increasing media representation of young people purely as the cause of these issues. In partnership with Chapter 1.
More details and online gallery
Lookout London – Young people explore gang and knife crime issues
Posted 07 July 2011
This Summer, we are delighted to be running workshops with young people in supported housing in East London, in partnership with Chapter 1 (http://www.ch1.org.uk/).
From July through until September, we will be supporting young people in Hackney and Walthamstow to explore how young people in these boroughs are affected by gangs and knife crime. With young people so often framed as the causes of these issues, the ways in which they are affected day-to-day whether they like it or not, are often overlooked.
The work will be showcased through a series of local exhibitions and a booklet in October – November. Interested in hosting a physical or online exhibition in your venue, institution or website? Email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Two year project with the National Working Group for Sexually Exploited Children and Young People
Posted 07 July 2011
July sees us starting work on our next long-term project: a two-year project with the National Working Group for Sexually Exploited Children and Young People, generously funded by Comic Relief and BBC Children in Need.
Over the next two years, we’ll be working with young people in four sites across the country to create and disseminate digital stories tackling the issue of sexual exploitation from the perspective of young people affected by it. Workshops will start in January 2012.
Doing an event for charity? Do it for PhotoVoice!
Posted 06 July 2011
PhotoVoice has a page on the Virgin Giving page - http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/giving/ If you need help or ideas, email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Workshops Completed in the Somali Region of Ethiopia
Posted 06 July 2011
“This photo has a lot of important things: so many that we can’t count them. The house we use for shelter - it protects us from the cold, the heat, the sun, the rain, the wind, and dofan (storms). It’s a Somali house made of grass, harars,(woven mats) and small iron sheets. This is my house. I sleep there. I also study school subjects and religious lessons. I have a good life here.” © Cabdi Shaafi Ismaaciil / 2011 / Save the Children / PhotoVoice
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The PhotoVoice Auction of Exceptional Photographs
Event date 23 November 2010
Come and celebrate the power of photography in all its expressions at the renowned annual PhotoVoice Auction of Exceptional Photographs.
The PhotoVoice Auction of Exceptional Photographs
Hosted by Reuters
23rd November 2010
Thomson Reuters, 30 South Colonnade, Canary Wharf, London E14 5EP
This year’s collection is the most impressive to date, and includes stunning prints by legends of photography past and present alongside new work from exciting emerging talent. This year’s auction will include lots donated by Dan Holdsworth, Massimo Vitali, Frank Horvat, and an exclusive opportunity to bid on a unique one-off set of Simon Norfolk prints. Signed, editioned, vintage prints from George Rodger, Eve Arnold and Herb Ritts also feature.
Jeffrey Archer will host a live auction of 35 prints, and the remaining prints will be sold via a silent auction that will run throughout the evening. All prints will be exhibited on the night.
Live Auction 8.00pm – 9.00pm
Silent Auction 6.30pm – 9.30pm
Guest Auctioneer Jeffery Archer
Tickets including catalogue £20
PLEASE NOTE TICKETS ARE NOW ONLY AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE ON THE DOOR
Use the links below for more information on:
How the auction works
Absentee and telephone bidding
Terms and conditions
View Online Gallery
View Catalogue
Auction hosted by Reuters
With special thanks to Ayperi Karabuda Ecer, Jassim Ahmad Karen Chesson and Lynne Bundy and Shannon Ghannam
PV METHODOLOGY RESOURCES
Posted 04 May 2011
PhotoVoice offers a range of free online resources to support the use of participatory photography with different groups.
NEW RESOURCE ONLINE NOW - See it our Way: Participatory photography as a tool for advocacy.
PhotoVoice Lecture Series - Chris Steele Perkins
Event date 14 March 2011
Magnum photographer Chris Steele Perkins will talk about his experience as a photographer whose career has moved between journalism and reportage to the pursuit of personal projects. Chris will touch on issues of truth, responsibility and the role of photojournalism today and share his diverse portfolio of images taken from all corners of the world from Brixton to Afghanistan to Japan.
‘Words on Monday’ series at Kings Place, London, N1 9AG
14th March 2011
7pm
Tickets:£9.50 online*
Please add £2 to the online ticket price if booking by other methods
Book directly from the Kings Place
Magnum photographer Chris Steele Perkins will talk about his experience as a photographer whose career has moved between journalism and reportage to the pursuit of personal projects. Chris will touch on issues of truth, responsibility and the role of photojournalism today and share his diverse portfolio of images taken from all corners of the world from Brixton to Afghanistan to Japan.
Chris Steele-Perkins moved from Rangoon to London with his family in 1949. In 1971 started working as a freelance photographer and started his first foreign work in 1973 in Bangladesh followed by work for relief organizations and travel assignments. In 1975 he worked with EXIT, a group dealing with social problems in British cities. He then joined the Paris-based Viva agency in 1976. In 1979, his first book, The Teds, was published. Chris joined Magnum in 1979 and soon began working extensively in the developing world, in particular in Africa, Central America and Lebanon, as well as continuing to take photographs in Britain. He has published a book on Afghanistan and two books on Japan. His latest project is on people who have lived to be over 100 years old.
His reportages have received high public acclaim and have won several awards. Most recently his book England, My England was shortlisted for British Book Publishers’ Award for best Art/Photography book.
Image ©Chris Steele Perkins / Magnum Photos
London Art Fair - Special Ticket Offer
Event date 19 January 2011
PhotoVoice will be exhibiting photographs by both PhotoVoice participants and professional work by supporting Photographers.
19 – 23 January 2011 Business Design Centre, Islington
Now in it’s 23rd year, London Art Fair presents over one hundred galleries featuring great names of 20th Century British art and exceptional contemporary work from leading figures and emerging talent.
PhotoVoice will be exhibiting photographs by both PhotoVoice participants and professional work by supporting Photographers. We are stand M10 – next to Photo50.
PhotoVoice is also hosting a talk on at 12pm on Wednesday 19th. Book your place
Image Fatigue: Can photographs still be a catalyst for positive social change in a world saturated with images?
Leading photography professionals discuss past and present campaigns that use socially driven imagery and ask whether they still have an impact in today’s media, and if so what makes these images successful in driving social change. The discussion is led by Marc Schlossman (PhotoVoice Trustee and photographer) with Adam Hinton (Photographer), Liz Orton (PhotoVoice Facilitator) Monica Allende (picture Editor Sunday Time Magazine)and Jessica Crombie (Film and Photography Manager, Save the Children).
Please note Gideon Mendel is no longer able to participate in this event.
London Art Fair is offering PhotoVoice subscribers two tickets for the price of one, when booked before 14th January*. The advance ticket price is £11 plus £1.50 booking fee. Call 08448 480 141 or book online at www.londonartfair.co.uk quoting LAF106. Do come and say hello.
* This offer may not be used in conjunction with any other promotion and is offered subject to availability.
Red Dot: AOP Members End of Year Auction and Exhibition in support of Photovoice
Event date 01 December 2010
‘Red Dot’ is a hugely popular event, giving photography fans the opportunity to buy quality photographic prints. Bidding starts at £40.00 for all prints.
Charity Auction Evening - Wednesday 1 December 2010 @ 6.30pm
Exhibtion - 1 December - 13 January 2011
Another AOP silent auction is on it’s way, ‘Red Dot’ a hugely popular event, giving photography fans the opportunity to buy quality photographic prints. Bidding starts at £40.00 for all prints.
Come and place your bids and do your bit for charity! For a sneak preview of the images please click here.
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Opening hours: Monday – Friday, 10am – 6pm
Auction Catalogue 2010
Event date 23 November 2010
PhotoVoice Auction of Exceptional Photographs Gallery 2010
Event date 23 November 2010
Live auction: lots 1-35
Silent auction: lots 36-83
Lot 13 Simon Norfolk Artist Statement
How the Auction Works
Absentee and Telephone Bidding
Terms and Conditions
PhotoVoice Lecture Series 2010 - Anastasia Taylor-Lind in conversation with Laura Noble
Event date 02 December 2010
Anastasia Taylor-Lind began her career in photojournalism 2004. She studied Documentary Photography at the University of Wales Newport and the London College of Communication and is currently based in Syria.
PhotoVoice Lecture Series 2010
Anastasia Taylor-Lind - emerging talent within journalism and documentary photography.
7.30pm Thursday 2nd December
South Place Ethical Society, Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4RL
Tickets: £10 in advance, £12 on the door
TICKETS ARE NOW ONLY AVAILABLE ON THE DOOR
Anastasia Taylor-Lind began her career in photojournalism 2004. She studied Documentary Photography at the University of Wales Newport and the London College of Communication and is currently based in Syria. She is represented by the VII Mentor program.
Anastasia has won a number of photography awards including the Guardian photography award for this portrait if a Kurdish female fighter.
Laura Noble is the Co-Director of Diemar/Noble Photography, London. She is also the author of The Art of Collecting Photography (AVA 2006), has essays in several monographs, curates and lectures on all aspects of collecting and gallery practice worldwide. As an avid collector she prides herself on discovering new talent and writes extensively on photography in numerous journals including Eyemazing, GUP, Foam, Hotshoe, Snoeks, Next Level and LIP.
www.lauraannnoble.com
Please note - Marcus Bleasdale is no longer able to participate in this event.
PhotoVoice Lecture Series 2010 - Mary McCartney in conversation with Robin Derrick
Event date 11 November 2010
Mary McCartney started her career as a photographer in 1995. Since then Mary’s work has spanned the worlds of portrait and fashion photography. Her style lies in finding a moment that gives us a new insight on the subject.
PhotoVoice Lecture Series 2010
Mary McCartney - established photographer in the world of fashion, portrait and documentary, in conversation with Robin Derrick - Creative Director of British Vogue, Photographer and Director
7.30pm Thursday 11th November
South Place Ethical Society, Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4RL
£12 on the door
TICKETS ONLY AVAILABLE ON THE DOOR
Mary McCartney started her career as a photographer in 1995. Since then Mary’s work has spanned the worlds of portrait and fashion photography. Her style lies in finding a moment that gives us a new insight on the subject.
Mary’s assignments have led to her work appearing in editorial titles such as Harpers Bazaar and Interview Magazine as well as high impact advertising campaigns for clients such as Gossard, Stella McCartney, Adidas, Aga, Bucherer and Mandarin Oriental.
Mary’s first solo exhibition was in October 2004 entitled ‘Off Pointe - A Photographic Study of The Royal Ballet After Hours’ in which she was invited into the private world of the elite Corps De Ballet. This series of black & white photographs reveals an intimate unseen aspect of the world of ballet capturing the prestige and the chaos of life behind the scenes and the contrast between the sometimes gruelling, painful lifestyle of the dancers and their fairy tale performances.
Mary’s first book “From Where I Stand” a retrospective book of her photographic work to date will be published in October 2010 by Thames & Hudson.
Mary will be exhibiting ‘From Where I Stand’ at Michael Hoppen Gallery from 22nd October – 20 November
In 1982 Robin had just begun a three-year degree course at St Martins College of Art when he met Terry Jones, Editor-in-chief of the fledgling style magazine, i-D. For the next four years he worked with Terry on i-D experimenting with early computer graphics and playing with ideas of what a magazine could look like.
As Art Director of The Face, from 1986-87, Robin forged links with Nick Knight, Mario Testino and Juergen Teller. In 1993 Robin took up the position of Art Director at British Vogue and was then appointed Creative Director in 2001. Robin has been a contributing creative director to the Giorgio Armani brand since 2005
Robin also works as a photographer and director, shooting fashion and beauty editorial for the British, German, Spanish, Russian and Japanese editions of Vogue as well as US and UK Glamour.
Making the Change
Posted 21 July 2010
Young disabled people across the North West share their view of the transition from child to adult services, informing improvements to services.
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PhotoVoice Auction of Exceptional Photographs 2009
Event date 08 December 2009
The Auction is a firm fixture in the photography industry calendar. Its reputation grows each year and it has become associated with some of the world’s most iconic photography.
PhotoVoice was overwhelmed by the generosity of the photography community this year, and was proud to announce its most impressive collection of prints to date. This year the bidders had the opportunity to bid on prints by legendary masters including Eve Arnold, Bert Hardy, Thurston Hopkins, Patrick Litchfield, Nadav Kander, Mary Ellen Mark, Steve McCurry, Terry O’Neil and Herb Ritts as well as the great names of the future such as Giacomo Brunelli, Li Fan, Tim Hetherington and Anastasia Taylor-Lind.
Images of What is Ours Gallery - Paraguay
Posted 15 April 2010
Images of What is Ours, our Paraguay project with Amnesty International and the Yakye Axa and Sawhoyamaxa communities.
Image © 2010 Jose Florentin / Amnesty International / Tierra Viva / PhotoVoice
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Opportunities to get involved
Posted 22 March 2010
PhotoVoice is currently recruiting for a new trustee to bring legal expertise to its active board. More details.
PhotoVoice is also currently recruiting for several volunteer interns to support different areas of our work. Find out more.
PhotoVoice Lecture Series
Event date 10 May 2010
Sundance film festival and World Press Photo winner Tim Hetherington will be delivering a lecture at The Kings Place on May 10th 2010.
Click here for full details
PhotoVoice Newsletter February 2010
Posted 11 February 2010
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London Art Fair 2009
Posted 22 December 2009
PhotoVoice is delighted to have been invited to exhibit at the London Art Fair for the second year running. For more information and details about the 241 ticket offer please click here
PhotoVoice Training Workshops
New dates have been added - Places are filling up fast, to book please click here
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PhotoVoice Auction of Exceptional Photographs 2011
Event date 22 November 2011
The renowned PhotoVoice Auction of Exceptional Photographs is back this autumn, showcasing a unique collection of world class prints from photography legends, contemporary masters and emerging talent.
Over 80 prints will be auctioned, including photographs by Eve Arnold, Tim Flach, Veronica Bailey, Herb Ritts, Brian Griffin, Tony McGee, Sarah Moon, Simon Roberts and David Chancellor.
Tuesday 22nd November
6pm-10pm, live auction starts 8pm
Auctioneer: Jeffrey Archer
Hosted by Reuters
The Thomson Reuters Building, 30 South Colonnade, Canary Wharf, London, E14 5EP
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>Tickets £20 in advance - click here to book tickets
Kindly supported by Reuters and Clifford Chance
For an early glimpse of our auction lots, visit our preview exhibition at La Galleria Pall Mall, from 14th-18th November, click here for more details.
The Silent Auction has already opened!
See our online catalogue for all our silent auction lots and details of how to bid!
Auction catalogue
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“Migration, Stories of a Journey” International Photography Award
Posted 20 December 2011
PhotoVoice is thrilled to support the ‘Migration, Stories of a Journey’ International Photography Award launched by Accademia Apulia.
With the Patronage of Amnesty International, the British Council, the European Commission Representation in the UK and the International Organisation for Migration, Accademia Apulia UK is pleased to announce the opening of submissions for their 2011 Photography Award.
‘Migration, Stories of a Journey’ is aimed at promoting emerging photographers of all nationalities based in the European Economic Community whose work explores the lives and development of migrants worldwide.
The focus of this award is to highlight migrants’ struggle and difficulties as they seek a better life in their
adopted country.
Entrants will be assessed by leading figures in the fields of Photography and Journalism:
Barbara Roche - Migration Museum Project
Diane Smyth - British Journal of Photography
Jennifer Francis - The Royal Academy of Arts
John Ingledew - University of Gloucestershire
Lucilla and Fabrizio Barbieri - Coppi Barbieri
Stefano Tura – RAI
Steve Macleod – Metro Imaging
Susan Jenkins - The Art Newspaper
Prize
Three finalists will be revealed on 10 January 2012 and the winner on 10 Feb 2012. Their works will be
showcased in a group exhibition curated by Elisa Canossa at the Royal Horseguards in London. The three
finalists will be flown in as guests of Accademia Apulia for two nights. The winner will also receive € 1000
cash prize.
Entries opened on 18th October 2011 and are free. The closing date for entries is 30 December 2011.
To enter the competition please visit www.accademiapulia.org
How equal are young people? The Right Year For Children launch
Posted 19 December 2011
Two great events inaugurated the launch of The Right Year For Children celebrating the 20th anniversary of the UK ratifying the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
No children allowed?
On 15th December, an exhibition showcasing photographs and messages from young people across the country opened at Matrix Chambers, one of the elite barristers’ organization specializing in liberties and human rights. It was followed by an equality workshop for young (under 18 year-olds) child activists and with attendance of some great experts on law, equality and children’s rights.
Carolyne Willow, National Co-ordinator of the Children’s Rights Alliance for England started off by posing a fundamental question - How equal are the children and young people in England today?
Two of the country’s leading discrimination barristers, Karon Monaghan QC of Matrix Chambers and Ulele Burnham of Doughty Street Chambers, stressed the importance of the Equality Act and how it applies to young people’s lives: Karon in her talk on Why we have an Equality Act and why it’s relevant to children and young people, and Ulele in her discussion on Challenging discrimination: real-life stories.
All the participants were asked to bring one object, photograph or picture that they feel symbolizes how children and young people are treated in the UK today. A dice, a wooden box with a sticker on it saying “No children allowed”, a school trophy, a candle and more - all gathered at the workshop table reflecting young people’s personal view on the matter.
Footprints to No. 10 Downing Street
On 16th December, a group of 19 children and young people marched to the Prime Minister HQ to deliver messages from thousands of children all over the country, marking the 20th anniversary of the UK signing up to the UNCRC. They were accompanied by the representatives of four organizations that form the steering Committee of the Right Year For Children celebrations: Alicia Jones of UNICEF, Carolyne Willow of CRAE, Matt Daw and Clare Struthers of PhotoVoice, and Kate Parish of Pupil Voice & Participation England.
Children sent their messages on paper footprints, each footprint symbolizing one signature on this unusual petition, aiming to remind the government to remember young people’s rights when creating new laws and policies.
One of the participants, 18 year-old Rory Murray from Bracknell, told Children&Young People Now:
“It’s an important moment to mark the 20th anniversary. A lot has been achieved in 20 years, especially around giving children the special protection they need, but much more needs to be done. In the next 20 years I hope to see the UNCRC brought into our domestic law. The government is getting there on listening to children but they still have a long way to go.”
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child gives children everywhere over 40 major rights, including the right to education, family support, an adequate standard of living, to health, to play and recreation, to protection from all forms of violence, and the right to be heard and taken seriously. The Convention requires that all children be respected as human beings with views, feelings and ideas of their own.
Unlike many countries, the UK still hasn’t made the Convention part of its domestic law.
Rights! Cameras! Action! resource launch!
Posted 16 December 2011
Our RCA multimedia resource launches with exhibition in Scottish parliament, Edinburgh and Matrix Chambers, London.
In the photo: Sarah White MSP by our RCA exhibition stand.
Double your money if you donate!
Posted 14 December 2011
PhotoVoice has nearly £4,000 match funding available from its Big Give Christmas Challenge.
Make a donation and it will be matched.
Make a donation to PhotoVoice and it will be matched pound-for-pound! After the Big Give, we still have nearly £4,000 of funding from an annonymous donor available to match your donation.
Please donate whatever you can and help PhotoVoice continue its innovative work in using photography to connect the marginalised to the majority.
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PhotoVoice Prints For Sale
Posted 07 December 2011
Looking for an exceptional gift this Christmas?
We have a number of prints for sale ideal for that special Christmas gift, from artists including, Sarah Moon, Laura Pannack & John Swannell to name a few!.
Click here for a full inventory of what we have on offer.
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Interview with our new Director, Kevin McCullough
Posted 07 December 2011
A big, warm welcome to our new Director, Kevin McCullough! We are very excited to have him with us & we are sure he is up for a challenge of steering the PhotoVoice ship!
We asked Kevin a few questions about his work, his favourite music and the challenges awaiting in 2012…
Kevin, where are you from and what is your background?
I am originally from Belfast and have had 20 years experience in international development working for organisations including Christian Aid and CAFOD. In the last 4 years I have been doing some work on funding social justice documentary films.
What attracted you to PhotoVoice?
I have known of PhotoVoice’s work for some years. I am concerned about issues of visual representation within the charity sector generally and the international NGOs in particular. PhotoVoice methodology ensures that those who are often the subjects of photography can become its creators, thereby offering a new perspective that challenges people’s prejudice. Through photography the participants are engaged in speaking out about their situations and challenges and expressing their hopes and fears. In this way, photography becomes a tool for advocacy and positive social change.
What are your plans for PhotoVoice in 2012?
It’s still early days – I’ve only been here a week!
I’m very excited about the projects we have in development for next year. Whilst these are tough financial times for the charity sector PhotoVoice supporters are some of the most loyal and generous. I would hope to build upon the excellent work that has gone on before me and engage more deeply with our supporters to build a solid financial future. In the not-to-distant future, I’d like marginalised communities to be leading that process of social change, not just part of it.
Any PhotoVoice project you cherish most?
There are so many excellent PV projects – Visible Rights working with children in Afghanistan, more recently Lookout London working with young people who have experienced homelessness and knife crime and Rights, Cameras, Action raising awareness children’s rights and the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child to name a few. Working with effective partners who are calling for policy change on specific issues is important. For us at PhotoVoice we can play a part in the advocacy process through the tool of photography and story telling. Last week I heard the stories of two young people living in east London and how the Lookout project was potentially life changing for them. By giving expression to their fears and their hopes for the future, the project is succeeding where so many others had fallen short.
Any upcoming PhotoVoice project you are particularly excited about?
The next phases of Lookout and Rights Cameras Action will be very exciting. There are two or three other projects we are working on which are sensitive, complex and yet cutting edge areas of work. What I love about PhotoVoice is that the projects undertaken are not safe but are always attempting to offer space for the visual voice of people living in vulnerable and difficult situations and yet through the experience of the project participants often see their situations in a different way.
What is the biggest challenge for you as Director of a non profit organization?
To continue to be effective, efficient and excellent in what we do. Staying close to our values and finding more ways of involving the wonderful community that is PhotoVoice.
What was the most challenging campaign you have ever worked on?
Make Poverty History - it was big in scale and in its demands of the world’s leaders at the G8. A campaign which engaged some 25 million people in the UK and marching with 250,000 people in Edinburgh was truly inspirational and yet the year had many challenges.
What do you do in your free time?
I am involved in a voluntary capacity with an international charity using sport as a tool for conflict resolution and community development and I’m a mentor for some youth projects in southern Africa. Apart from that reading, music, visits to the cinema, theatre and watching sport.
Tea or coffee?
Coffee – preferably Irish!
Favourite band?
Sorry, it’s Classic FM in the background for me and U2, the Beatles, Kanye West and my son’s band Mammoth Sound (not my style but you have to be supportive!)
If you weren’t working in a charity sector, what would you be doing?
Scoring the winning goal for Leeds United in the Cup Final! Then waking up and fishing from Mangochi on Lake Malawi!
The Right Year For Children launches this week!
Event date 16 December 2011
The Right Year for Children is coming up next Friday (16th December). How will we celebrate?
16th December 2011 marks 20 years since the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) was formerly adopted by the UK.
EVENTS
Throughout 2011 PhotoVoice has been working with young people all around the UK in order to gather their thoughts and experiences on the relevance and importance of child rights to their lives. The young people involved have included Young Carers, Looked After Young People, Homeless Young People and Disabled Young People.
On December 16th PhotoVoice and Action for Children will launch an online multimedia resource at www.rightscamerasaction.org.uk to inform and engage young people across the UK about UNCRC. A booklet will also be produced to be used as a classroom tool and to signpost the online resource.
PhotoVoice are to showcase this rights-based work in Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh in December, to coincide with the 20th anniversary and with a UK-wide press campaign based on raising awareness of this significant landmark.
The exhibition will showcase photographs and messages directly from young people, bringing their voices to the discussion and reminding MPs and public audiences alike of the importance of their perspectives and their engagement in the implementation of any policies or initiatives designed to improve their lives.
On 15th December 2011 exactly the same exhibition will be showcased in Matrix Chambers in London to coincide with an equality workshop for young people, as part of the launch publicity for the Right Year for Children.
On 16th December, young people will march to 10 Downing Street to present footprints from young people all over the UK to remind the government to remember young people and their rights when developing policies and laws.
RIGHT YEAR FOR CHILDREN LOGO
16 year-old Trishna Jethwa from Leicester was the winner of a nation-wide competition for children and young people to create a universal logo to mark the 20th anniversary of ratifying the UNCRC. Organisations working with children and young people, including the Government and local councils, will be encouraged to use the logo as part of their work and commitment to promote and protect children’s rights.
Carolyne Willow, CRAE’s national co-ordinator, adds:
“We hope the winning logo will be used by hundreds of organisations and will really help to increase people’s knowledge and understanding of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Our country signed up to this human rights treaty 20 years ago and we want to get the message out loud and clear that children and young people have their own set of rights protected by international law.”
On 21st November, Trishna claimed her prize by having her design made into a professional logo by PhotoVoice Ambassador Adrian Nunn at the design agency The Big Window who generously donated their time, whilst also meeting Maggie Atkinson, the Children’s Commissioner for England.
Check out our blog regularly for updates and coverage of all the RYC events!
For more information on the project: click here.
Lookout London Exhibition Launch!
Posted 02 December 2011
The Lookout London exhibition launch went off with a bang last night!
Special thanks to all those who came down to enjoy the evening & of course all those project participants, partners & funders who made it possible. The books flew off the table like hot cakes, the travelling exhibition looked great in its debut in the limelight, and lots of the young photographers were there to celebrate their achievement and speak to visitors about their photos and messages. Bianca from Homerton Space Project, and James from Stephen House both spoke very eloquently about their experience on the project, and the evening came to an end too soon for many of us!
A special mention to Hackney Borough Council for generously funding the event & the Crisis Skylight Cafe for superbly hosting it!
The travelling exhibition will now be moving on to Lambeth Council where it will be exhibited in libraries across the borough, helping to widen the reach & impact of this campaign within the capital. Poster versions of the same exhibition materials are available for schools - if you are interested in displaying these materials (provided by PhotoVoice at no cost to you) to generate discussion amongst young people at your school please email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Get in touch soon as there are a limited number of poster sets available!
We are not restricting the reach of this project to London either. PhotoVoice has partnered with a fantastic charity called The Photographic Angle, which has the aim of introducing new audiences to photography by touring pop-up exhibitions and taking photography out of galleries and into public spaces and informal spaces. TPA will be touring an exhibition of the work from the Lookout London project all around the UK – watch our website and sign up to the PhotoVoice newsletter to be kept informed of the venues and dates when they are confirmed.
And what next? Well Lookout London is hopefully just the start. The issues we are trying to address are not exclusive to London, and in the next phase of this project we hope to work in a similar way in other parts of the UK – including Manchester, Liverpool, Southampton and Glasgow. PhotoVoice and Chapter 1 will be working together on this next phase, and involving other organisations working with young people to include young people from as diverse backgrounds as possible. If you would like more information about this, or if you think you or your organisation could get involved in some way, please do get in touch by emailing Project Manager Matt Daw - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
If you would like to host the travelling exhibition in your community space - whether it is a library, community centre, service centre, job centre or museum - please email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) to arrange a date.
To request copies of the book - for yourself or for distribution in your school or youth club, please contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
*Lookout London exhibition, showcasing works on gang culture and knife crime, will be touring schools and libraries in south London.
Where is it now and what are the next stops?
Downham Library
5th - 11th December
Downham Health & Leisure Centre
7-9 Moorside Road, Bromley, BR1 5EP
Map: click here
Catford Library
12th - 18th December
1 Catford Road, London SE6 4RU
Map: click here
Lewisham Library
from 19th December
199-201 Lewisham High Street, London, SE13 6LG
Map: click here
Don’t miss it!
For more information on the project
VOICES Exhibition Now in Birmingham
Event date 06 December 2011
Previously showcased with a great success at the Hereford Photography Festival, VOICES exhibition moves to BOA in Birmingham.
Part of our international project See it Our Way that focuses on the problem of human trafficking and features photo works of young people from Albania, Lebanon or Pakistan, VOICES exhibition travels from Hereford to BOA, a fantastic creative venue in Birmingham. VOICES is a collaboration between PhotoVoice and The Photographic Angle, an organisation that transforms public spaces into temporary photo galleries.
Lookout London exhibition launch!
Posted 29 November 2011
A BIG thank you to all who came along to the Lookout London exhibition launch - a good time was had by all!
Lookout London poster campaign launched!
Posted 23 November 2011
Check out our Lookout London poster campaign recently launched across the capital - keep an eye out for a poster near you!
If anyone would like to help us broaden our campaign reach by putting up a few posters in your local area to then please contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) & I’ll send some out to you!
Posters showcasing at the Southside Shopping Centre, Wandsworth
Special thanks to all at Shahmoon tv for the generous charity discount on the street ads
PhotoVoice Auction 2011 Preview Exhibition
Event date 14 November 2011
A preview exhibition of prints in the PhotoVoice Auction of Exceptional Photographs 2011, which is open for public viewing.
Date:
Monday 14th - Friday 18th November
Opening hours to the general public:
11am-6pm, late night Thursday to 7.30pm
Venue:
La Galleria Pall Mall, 30 Royal Opera Arcade, London, SW1Y 4UY
view map
Nearest tube: Piccadilly Circus or Charing Cross
The Silent Auction is now open!
See our online catalogue for all our silent auction lots and details of how to bid!
For details of the Auction night, which takes place on Tuesday 22nd November, and to book tickets please click here.
Auction catalogue
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The PhotoVoice Auction 2011 was a great success!
Event date 22 November 2011
This years Auction was a great success enjoyed by all who attended, and included some brand new features such as the preview exhibition and the Silent Auction text bidding system.
More information and to view images
A BIG thank you to all that attended and helped make the PhotoVoice Auction of Exceptional Photographs 2011 such a success!
We are very pleased to announce that the overall amount raised was just over £70,000!
It was the first year we’ve introduced text bidding within the Silent Auction and it added an extra element of excitment on the night.
It was also the first year we held a preview exhibition of the prints the week prior to the event at La Galleria, Pall Mall, which everyone who attended also thoroughly enjoyed.
For more details about this year’s Auction and to view the online catalogue, click here.
Watch this slideshow showcasing a selection of the projects and interviews with their participants from 2011:
PhotoVoice Auction previewed in Sunday Times online Spectrum gallery!
Posted 10 November 2011
The PhotoVoice Auction of Exceptional Photographs 2011 was previewed in the Sunday Times online Spectrum gallery on 6th November 2011 - check out the photos!
Festival Fever at PhotoVoice!
Posted 04 November 2011
PhotoVoice has been a big success recently at both the Hereford Photography Festival and the Delhi Photo Festival
Our Walk in My Shoes exhibition travelled down to Hereford for the festival, complete with new QR codes for instant audio download - see the wonders of technology in action!
Also as part of the festival our very own projects manager Matt Daw together with Anthony Riley of The Photographic Angle, gave a seminar in the use of participatory photography to bring about social change @Fotofilia Gallery in Birmingham on Monday 31st October. Check out the pics!
A slideshow combining work from our See It Our Way and Direct Voices projects, was also a big success at the Delhi Photo Festival. Check out their blog
Donate between 5 – 9 December and your donation will be doubled!
Posted 04 November 2011
Get inviolved in the BIG GIVE Christmas Challenge 2011!
Double your money!
Make a donation to PhotoVoice through the BIG GIVE today or tomorrow and it will be matched pound-for-pound! We have a target of £10,000, which if achieved will result in PhotoVoice getting £20,000 – a huge boost to our projects in these difficult times.
We’ve already received nearly £2,000, so we’re well on our way! Please donate whatever you can and help PhotoVoice continue its innovative work in using photogrgaphy to connect the marginalised to the majority.
BIG THANKS in advance and Merry Christmas to you all!
If you want to become a Friend of PhotoVoice click here
Please email your MP today to keep 400 16 and 17 year olds out of prison
Posted 28 October 2011
Please email your MP today asking them to vote against the new knife crime proposals coming before Parliament on Monday.
As you may have heard, the Government announced on Wednesday that it is planning to introduce mandatory prison sentences of at least 4 months for 16 and 17 year olds found guilty of threatening with a knife. This move which could see up to 400 under-18s ending up in prison.
Knife crime is a serious problem for some communities and we agree that urgent action is needed to address it. But we don’t think that prison is the answer. Instead, we need to look at why ¾ of children and young people who report carrying a knife claim to do so for protection. We need to tackle the barriers that still seem to exist in some communities between young people and the police. And given that rates of knife possession are significantly higher amongst children and young people who have been victims themselves, we need to work with young victims of knife crime, to better support them so they don’t think carrying a knife is a solution.
A survey of 15-18 year olds in young offender institutions published earlier this week found that, whilst nearly every single one of the 1000+ teens interviewed wanted to stop offending, only half felt they had done something whilst inside that would help them to stop offending.
If, like us, you think simply putting 16 and 17 year olds in prison is an expensive way of making things worse, please email your MP ahead of the debate in the House of Commons this coming Monday, 31st October, asking them to vote against this amendment.
To find out who your MP is and to email them, click here.
If you only send one email this weekend, please make it this one.
Stories of the World: Geffrye Museum
Posted 17 October 2011
Over the last five weeks young people from the World’s End Estate have worked with staff from the Geffrye Museum and PhotoVoice to learn and develop photography techniques.
Throughout the project the participants have used photography as a way to engage with and think about what ‘home’ means to them. This project has enabled young people to engage in an open dialogue about their homes and has encouraged them to think about them afresh, exploring ‘what makes a home’ and the way they live.
The work displayed in this exhibition are photographs which they feel signify the themes they discussed the most. Participants have also written corresponding captions which gives you an insight into their lives.
PhotoVoice at HPF: October - November 2011
Event date 31 October 2011
PhotoVoice will be showcased at two venues during the Hereford Photography Festival 2011, and will lead a seminar in the use of participatory photography to bring about social change.
Young people speak out through photography about the risks and root causes of human trafficking in their communities.
· Opens on the 31st Oct 2011 - Presentation begins at 5.30pm
· @Fotofilia Gallery Regent Street, Birmingham B1 3NS
· Closes on the 23rd Nov 2011
A short presentation by Matt Daw of PhotoVoice and Antony Riley of TPA introducing the exhibition and the organisations involved will take place in the gallery from 5.30pm on October 31st.
Walk in My Shoes: 12th-26th October Opening Night
Posted 14 October 2011
Thanks to all that made the Walk in My Shoes exhibition opening a great success!
PhotoVoice would like to thank everyone who made it down to the Southside Shopping Centre on Wednesday night, to help us toast the opening of our Walk in My Shoes exhibition & drink all the wine!
It was a great night, enjoyed by all, including the photographers, friends and families, PV staff, facilitators and project partners.
It was an especially good opportunity for our project participants to finally meet each other in person and talk about each other’s work and life experiences. Everyone loved the audio aspect to the photo-trail, Caroline from the Southside Shopping Centre itself, saying how much depth it added to her overall enjoyment of the photographs.
So, if you haven’t had a chance to make it down yet, fear not there’s still plenty of time, as it’s running until 26th October, so why don’t you take 5 minutes out of your day to take a walk in someones elses shoes?
PhotoVoice showcases work at the Delhi Photo Festival
Event date 21 October 2011
PhotoVoice work from the projects See It Our Way surrounding the issues of human trafficking accross the Middle East and Eastern Europe and Direct Voices, exploring issues surrounding HIV and AIDS in Bosnia and Russia, is being exhibited at the Delhi Photo Festival on 21st October, as part of a slideshow showcasing work produced by children/youth around the world.
Enter the Young Photographers’ Alliance (YPA) competition - Deadline is 7 October!
Posted 05 October 2011
YPA will be offering 2 photographers the opportunity to exhibit an image at the Select Photofair in Hoxton. Apply now! Deadline is 7 October!
Enter the Young Photographers’ Alliance (YPA) competition to win a place to exhibit work at the first annual London Select Photofair.
Sell your photography alongside a range of top photographers and promote your work to commercial clients.
Hosted by leading photographic magazine, Select, the fair will showcase the work of over 30 international photographers from 27 Oct- 24 Nov 2011. The Select Photofair will be promoted to collectors, art buyers, and creatives, enabling its artists to sell prints and attract commercial attention from potential clients.
PhotoVoice showcases work at the Delhi Photo Festival
Posted 03 October 2011
PhotoVoice work included as part of a slideshow showcasing youth produced work from around the world at the Delhi Photo Festival 2011 on 21st October 2011.
Announcement of new PhotoVoice Chief Executive
Posted 26 September 2011
Kevin McCullough will be joining PhotoVoice as chief executive on 28th November 2011.
Kevin joins us from CAFOD where he has been Head of Campaigns for the past three years. In that role he led the Climate Justice campaign, has been a member of the DFID Communications group and has been involved with campaigning work for Why Poverty?, a series of documentaries for 50 broadcasters around the world, including the BBC.
Prior to working at CAFOD he had a number of roles at Christian Aid and he started his career as a youth and community worker for Belfast City Council.
He is a founder member and chairperson of Tipping Point Film Fund, a co-operative working in partnership with the Co-Operative Group to fund film directors working on social justice films. He is also a founder member and chairperson of the charity Global Goals, which supports sports development in poor communities around the world.
He will take over from Dominique Green, who has been chief executive since January 2009. Dominique is leaving to expand her existing role as Delegate to the Berlin Film Festival, responsible for the UK and Eire, and return to the film and photography industries as a consultant.
The trustees are extremely grateful for the work that Dominique has put into PhotoVoice over the past two and a half years and thank her for her considerable contribution.
In Kevin we believe that we have an excellent successor who will bring new skills and experience to PhotoVoice in its second decade and we all look forward to working with him.
Eyes of Youth, Albania in partnership with World Vision
Posted 23 September 2011
Workshops have completed in Kurbin, Albania where young people in deprived communities have documented social issues, in order to engage the local community in working towards positive social change.
More information and image gallery
PhotoVoice Supports The Right Year for Children
Posted 21 September 2011
PhotoVoice has teamed up with the Office of Children’s Commissioner, the Office of Children’s Rights Director and many other children’s and young people’s charities to celebrate 20 years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in the UK.
The Right Year for Children 2011-12
PhotoVoice has teamed up with the Office of Children’s Commissioner, the Office of Children’s Rights Director and many other children’s and young people’s charities to celebrate 20 years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in the UK.
In December 1991, the UK Government made a legal agreement with the United Nations uphold and implement the Convention on the Rights of the Child in the United Kingdom. Find out more about the UNCRC.
We are planning a year of action, beginning November 2011, to celebrate the anniversary and seek greater rights protection for children and young people in England. We hope you will join us!
To find out how you may become a partner or supporter of The Right Year for Children, contact: Denise Malcolm at the Office of the Children’s Commissioner: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Lookout London photos to be showcased at police gangs conference
Event date 30 September 2011
Photographs from both Lookout London groups will be showcased at the Police & Criminal Justice conference Tackling Gangs and Serious Youth Violence, on Friday 30th September 2011.
As David Cameron talks about ‘declaring war on gangs’ and the public looks for simple targets to blame the criminal activity that took place during the spree of rioting and looting in August, the perception of young people in Britain is in danger of falling to a new low. Despite the fact that fewer than a quarter of those charged for criminal activity during the riots were under 18, the media coverage and political responses have been filled with references to ‘feral youth’ and ‘violent teenagers’. The issues of gangs and knife crime have gained media prominence once again as if they are connected to the same simple problem – the existence of a disrespectful, uncontrollable and lawless generation.
Representing young people only as part of these social problems damages any attempts to improve the situation on the streets. The implication is that young people are only important or worth talking about when they are engaged in criminal activity, and the pressures and dangers they face themselves are not discussed or dealt with. The issues are to do with poverty, lack of opportunity and boredom, not age, and young people should be engaged in identifying and building solutions rather than being ignored until involved in criminal or anti-social behaviour, and then being stamped on by the legal system.
As police, criminal justice professionals, MPs and youth workers gather in Westminster to discuss the issues and potential solutions, the presence of the work from Lookout London will ensure that young people’s experiences and perspectives are not forgotten.
Image: © Angelika Stolarz 2011 / Chapter 1 / PhotoVoice
Not every dog is angry and wants to bite you.
More about Lookout London project
PhotoVoice congratulates Mr Bezwada Wilson,
Posted 01 September 2011
PhotoVoice congratulates Mr Bezwada Wilson, Convenor of Indian partner organisation Safai Karmachari Andolan on his ‘Real Hero’ award. The awards, given at a ceremony in Mumbai last month, recognise and acknowledge ordinary Indians who are making a difference to people’s lives.
Wilson, along with the Dalit Solidarity Network UK, helped organise our Images of Foul Play project working with Dalits (formerly known as untouchables) to create images for SKA and DSNUK in their campaign to eradicate the practice of manual scavenging - a term used to describe the job of removing human excrement from dry toilets and sewers.
For information about the project see http://www.photovoice.org/projects/international/images-of-foul-play-2010 and http://safaikarmachariandolan.org/articleon%20manualscavenging.php, http://www.dsnuk.org/Manual_Scav.htm
Rights Cameras Action, UK
Posted 01 September 2011
PhotoVoice, in partnership with Action for Children, is currently running workshops with groups of young people all over the UK in order to gather their thoughts and experiences related to the importance of child rights in the UK.
The photos and videos produced by the young people will feed into an online and printed resource aimed at engaging young people in discussing the role of child rights. This resource will be launched in December 2011 to coincide with the start of the RIGHT Year for Children, a year of events and campaigns organised by child-focused UK charities to recognise the 20th anniversary of the ratifying of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) in the UK.
Walk in My Shoes: 12th – 26th October 2011
Event date 12 October 2011
Southside Shopping Centre in Wandsworth hosts a photo-trail of images by PhotoVoice-trained photographers sharing a range of diverse experiences and perspectives on living in Great Britain. Extended to 26th October!
Check out our blog for photos of the opening night!
12th - 26th October 2011
Southside Shopping Centre
Garratt Lane, Wandsworth, London SW18 4TF Map
Nearest tube: East Putney (District Line) / Wandsworth Town Rail
Walk in My Shoes is a photo trail of 13 images by PhotoVoice-trained photographers, and showcases a diverse range of perspectives and experiences on life in Great Britain. Installed in Southside Shopping Centre, this exhibition is designed to challenge people to take a moment out of their own lives and preoccupations to walk in someone else’s shoes.
Visit our information point at Snappy Snaps, 110 Southside to pick up an exhibition guide, leave feedback, and to submit a photograph for our interactive exhibition display of perspectives on life in Great Britain. Anyone leaving feedback will have a chance to win an A2 stretched canvas print of their favourite photograph in the exhibition, and the visitors’ favourite from the interactive exhibition will win a personal photo book. All prizes courtesy of Snappy Snaps.
Download the Audio Trail to listen to soundscape and interviews with the photographers on your mp3 player or mobile phone as you walk the trail. (Downloads as zip folder).
Download and print an exhibition guide, with a map of the trail and an introduction to each of the featured photographers.
Online Exhibition Preview
Click on the thumbnails below to view a larger image and to listen to the accompanying audio track.
Voices - PhotoVoice Travelling Exhibition
Event date 07 September 2011
UK charity The Photographic Angle is collaborating with PhotoVoice to showcase work from four recent projects in an exciting exhibition touring sites in Bristol, Birmingham, Swindon and Maidenhead.
Voices will feature work from recent projects Lookout London, See it Our Way, UR in the Picture and How We See It.
The Photographic Angle holds free exhibitions that travel across the UK transforming vacant spaces into temporary galleries. In this way TPA seeks to give the public more opportunities to engage with the dynamic field of contemporary photography practice. www.thephotographicangle.co.uk
Voices Exhibition Touring Schedule
7-Sep-11 Sat-Wed: Bristol
Venue: Aztec 920 and 930 Park Avenue, Aztec West, Almondsbury, BS324SR
14-Sep-11 Sat-Wed: Swindon
Venue: Kingston Hse, Lydiards Fields, SN5 8UB
21-Sep-11 Sat-Wed: Maidenhead
Venue: The Place, Bridge Avenue, SL61AF
28-Sep-11 Sat-Wed: Bristol
Venue: Lewins Mead,Whitefriars, BS1 2NT
5-Oct-11 Sat-Wed: Birmingham
Venue: Quayside Tower, Broad Street, B12HF
10 images from See it Our Way will also be showcased as part of the Hereford Photography Festival 2011, at Fotofilia (Fotofilia Gallery Regent Street, Birmingham B1 3NS) from October 31st - November 24th 2011.
A presentation and Q&A will take place from 5.30pm on 31st October with representatives from PhotoVoice and TPA present to talk about the project and the rationale behind the democratisation of photography.
Get the Picture: Scottish Parliament
Posted 23 August 2011
Young Scottish people are offered the chance to showcase their views, issues and lives in Scotland, as well as give them the opportunity to present their aspirations for Scotland over the next 5 years.
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Lookout London: Homerton Group
Posted 18 August 2011
Young people in supported housing in Homerton reflect on the impact gang and knife crime issues have on their lives, as part of our ongoing project helping young people to challenge increasing media representation of young people purely as the cause of these issues. In partnership with Chapter 1.
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Lookout London – Young people explore gang and knife crime issues
Posted 07 July 2011
This Summer, we are delighted to be running workshops with young people in supported housing in East London, in partnership with Chapter 1 (http://www.ch1.org.uk/).
From July through until September, we will be supporting young people in Hackney and Walthamstow to explore how young people in these boroughs are affected by gangs and knife crime. With young people so often framed as the causes of these issues, the ways in which they are affected day-to-day whether they like it or not, are often overlooked.
The work will be showcased through a series of local exhibitions and a booklet in October – November. Interested in hosting a physical or online exhibition in your venue, institution or website? Email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Two year project with the National Working Group for Sexually Exploited Children and Young People
Posted 07 July 2011
July sees us starting work on our next long-term project: a two-year project with the National Working Group for Sexually Exploited Children and Young People, generously funded by Comic Relief and BBC Children in Need.
Over the next two years, we’ll be working with young people in four sites across the country to create and disseminate digital stories tackling the issue of sexual exploitation from the perspective of young people affected by it. Workshops will start in January 2012.
Doing an event for charity? Do it for PhotoVoice!
Posted 06 July 2011
PhotoVoice has a page on the Virgin Giving page - http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/giving/ If you need help or ideas, email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Workshops Completed in the Somali Region of Ethiopia
Posted 06 July 2011
“This photo has a lot of important things: so many that we can’t count them. The house we use for shelter - it protects us from the cold, the heat, the sun, the rain, the wind, and dofan (storms). It’s a Somali house made of grass, harars,(woven mats) and small iron sheets. This is my house. I sleep there. I also study school subjects and religious lessons. I have a good life here.” © Cabdi Shaafi Ismaaciil / 2011 / Save the Children / PhotoVoice
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The PhotoVoice Auction of Exceptional Photographs
Event date 23 November 2010
Come and celebrate the power of photography in all its expressions at the renowned annual PhotoVoice Auction of Exceptional Photographs.
The PhotoVoice Auction of Exceptional Photographs
Hosted by Reuters
23rd November 2010
Thomson Reuters, 30 South Colonnade, Canary Wharf, London E14 5EP
This year’s collection is the most impressive to date, and includes stunning prints by legends of photography past and present alongside new work from exciting emerging talent. This year’s auction will include lots donated by Dan Holdsworth, Massimo Vitali, Frank Horvat, and an exclusive opportunity to bid on a unique one-off set of Simon Norfolk prints. Signed, editioned, vintage prints from George Rodger, Eve Arnold and Herb Ritts also feature.
Jeffrey Archer will host a live auction of 35 prints, and the remaining prints will be sold via a silent auction that will run throughout the evening. All prints will be exhibited on the night.
Live Auction 8.00pm – 9.00pm
Silent Auction 6.30pm – 9.30pm
Guest Auctioneer Jeffery Archer
Tickets including catalogue £20
PLEASE NOTE TICKETS ARE NOW ONLY AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE ON THE DOOR
Use the links below for more information on:
How the auction works
Absentee and telephone bidding
Terms and conditions
View Online Gallery
View Catalogue
Auction hosted by Reuters
With special thanks to Ayperi Karabuda Ecer, Jassim Ahmad Karen Chesson and Lynne Bundy and Shannon Ghannam
PV METHODOLOGY RESOURCES
Posted 04 May 2011
PhotoVoice offers a range of free online resources to support the use of participatory photography with different groups.
NEW RESOURCE ONLINE NOW - See it our Way: Participatory photography as a tool for advocacy.
PhotoVoice Lecture Series - Chris Steele Perkins
Event date 14 March 2011
Magnum photographer Chris Steele Perkins will talk about his experience as a photographer whose career has moved between journalism and reportage to the pursuit of personal projects. Chris will touch on issues of truth, responsibility and the role of photojournalism today and share his diverse portfolio of images taken from all corners of the world from Brixton to Afghanistan to Japan.
‘Words on Monday’ series at Kings Place, London, N1 9AG
14th March 2011
7pm
Tickets:£9.50 online*
Please add £2 to the online ticket price if booking by other methods
Book directly from the Kings Place
Magnum photographer Chris Steele Perkins will talk about his experience as a photographer whose career has moved between journalism and reportage to the pursuit of personal projects. Chris will touch on issues of truth, responsibility and the role of photojournalism today and share his diverse portfolio of images taken from all corners of the world from Brixton to Afghanistan to Japan.
Chris Steele-Perkins moved from Rangoon to London with his family in 1949. In 1971 started working as a freelance photographer and started his first foreign work in 1973 in Bangladesh followed by work for relief organizations and travel assignments. In 1975 he worked with EXIT, a group dealing with social problems in British cities. He then joined the Paris-based Viva agency in 1976. In 1979, his first book, The Teds, was published. Chris joined Magnum in 1979 and soon began working extensively in the developing world, in particular in Africa, Central America and Lebanon, as well as continuing to take photographs in Britain. He has published a book on Afghanistan and two books on Japan. His latest project is on people who have lived to be over 100 years old.
His reportages have received high public acclaim and have won several awards. Most recently his book England, My England was shortlisted for British Book Publishers’ Award for best Art/Photography book.
Image ©Chris Steele Perkins / Magnum Photos
London Art Fair - Special Ticket Offer
Event date 19 January 2011
PhotoVoice will be exhibiting photographs by both PhotoVoice participants and professional work by supporting Photographers.
19 – 23 January 2011 Business Design Centre, Islington
Now in it’s 23rd year, London Art Fair presents over one hundred galleries featuring great names of 20th Century British art and exceptional contemporary work from leading figures and emerging talent.
PhotoVoice will be exhibiting photographs by both PhotoVoice participants and professional work by supporting Photographers. We are stand M10 – next to Photo50.
PhotoVoice is also hosting a talk on at 12pm on Wednesday 19th. Book your place
Image Fatigue: Can photographs still be a catalyst for positive social change in a world saturated with images?
Leading photography professionals discuss past and present campaigns that use socially driven imagery and ask whether they still have an impact in today’s media, and if so what makes these images successful in driving social change. The discussion is led by Marc Schlossman (PhotoVoice Trustee and photographer) with Adam Hinton (Photographer), Liz Orton (PhotoVoice Facilitator) Monica Allende (picture Editor Sunday Time Magazine)and Jessica Crombie (Film and Photography Manager, Save the Children).
Please note Gideon Mendel is no longer able to participate in this event.
London Art Fair is offering PhotoVoice subscribers two tickets for the price of one, when booked before 14th January*. The advance ticket price is £11 plus £1.50 booking fee. Call 08448 480 141 or book online at www.londonartfair.co.uk quoting LAF106. Do come and say hello.
* This offer may not be used in conjunction with any other promotion and is offered subject to availability.
Red Dot: AOP Members End of Year Auction and Exhibition in support of Photovoice
Event date 01 December 2010
‘Red Dot’ is a hugely popular event, giving photography fans the opportunity to buy quality photographic prints. Bidding starts at £40.00 for all prints.
Charity Auction Evening - Wednesday 1 December 2010 @ 6.30pm
Exhibtion - 1 December - 13 January 2011
Another AOP silent auction is on it’s way, ‘Red Dot’ a hugely popular event, giving photography fans the opportunity to buy quality photographic prints. Bidding starts at £40.00 for all prints.
Come and place your bids and do your bit for charity! For a sneak preview of the images please click here.
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Opening hours: Monday – Friday, 10am – 6pm
Auction Catalogue 2010
Event date 23 November 2010
PhotoVoice Auction of Exceptional Photographs Gallery 2010
Event date 23 November 2010
Live auction: lots 1-35
Silent auction: lots 36-83
Lot 13 Simon Norfolk Artist Statement
How the Auction Works
Absentee and Telephone Bidding
Terms and Conditions
PhotoVoice Lecture Series 2010 - Anastasia Taylor-Lind in conversation with Laura Noble
Event date 02 December 2010
Anastasia Taylor-Lind began her career in photojournalism 2004. She studied Documentary Photography at the University of Wales Newport and the London College of Communication and is currently based in Syria.
PhotoVoice Lecture Series 2010
Anastasia Taylor-Lind - emerging talent within journalism and documentary photography.
7.30pm Thursday 2nd December
South Place Ethical Society, Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4RL
Tickets: £10 in advance, £12 on the door
TICKETS ARE NOW ONLY AVAILABLE ON THE DOOR
Anastasia Taylor-Lind began her career in photojournalism 2004. She studied Documentary Photography at the University of Wales Newport and the London College of Communication and is currently based in Syria. She is represented by the VII Mentor program.
Anastasia has won a number of photography awards including the Guardian photography award for this portrait if a Kurdish female fighter.
Laura Noble is the Co-Director of Diemar/Noble Photography, London. She is also the author of The Art of Collecting Photography (AVA 2006), has essays in several monographs, curates and lectures on all aspects of collecting and gallery practice worldwide. As an avid collector she prides herself on discovering new talent and writes extensively on photography in numerous journals including Eyemazing, GUP, Foam, Hotshoe, Snoeks, Next Level and LIP.
www.lauraannnoble.com
Please note - Marcus Bleasdale is no longer able to participate in this event.
PhotoVoice Lecture Series 2010 - Mary McCartney in conversation with Robin Derrick
Event date 11 November 2010
Mary McCartney started her career as a photographer in 1995. Since then Mary’s work has spanned the worlds of portrait and fashion photography. Her style lies in finding a moment that gives us a new insight on the subject.
PhotoVoice Lecture Series 2010
Mary McCartney - established photographer in the world of fashion, portrait and documentary, in conversation with Robin Derrick - Creative Director of British Vogue, Photographer and Director
7.30pm Thursday 11th November
South Place Ethical Society, Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4RL
£12 on the door
TICKETS ONLY AVAILABLE ON THE DOOR
Mary McCartney started her career as a photographer in 1995. Since then Mary’s work has spanned the worlds of portrait and fashion photography. Her style lies in finding a moment that gives us a new insight on the subject.
Mary’s assignments have led to her work appearing in editorial titles such as Harpers Bazaar and Interview Magazine as well as high impact advertising campaigns for clients such as Gossard, Stella McCartney, Adidas, Aga, Bucherer and Mandarin Oriental.
Mary’s first solo exhibition was in October 2004 entitled ‘Off Pointe - A Photographic Study of The Royal Ballet After Hours’ in which she was invited into the private world of the elite Corps De Ballet. This series of black & white photographs reveals an intimate unseen aspect of the world of ballet capturing the prestige and the chaos of life behind the scenes and the contrast between the sometimes gruelling, painful lifestyle of the dancers and their fairy tale performances.
Mary’s first book “From Where I Stand” a retrospective book of her photographic work to date will be published in October 2010 by Thames & Hudson.
Mary will be exhibiting ‘From Where I Stand’ at Michael Hoppen Gallery from 22nd October – 20 November
In 1982 Robin had just begun a three-year degree course at St Martins College of Art when he met Terry Jones, Editor-in-chief of the fledgling style magazine, i-D. For the next four years he worked with Terry on i-D experimenting with early computer graphics and playing with ideas of what a magazine could look like.
As Art Director of The Face, from 1986-87, Robin forged links with Nick Knight, Mario Testino and Juergen Teller. In 1993 Robin took up the position of Art Director at British Vogue and was then appointed Creative Director in 2001. Robin has been a contributing creative director to the Giorgio Armani brand since 2005
Robin also works as a photographer and director, shooting fashion and beauty editorial for the British, German, Spanish, Russian and Japanese editions of Vogue as well as US and UK Glamour.
Making the Change
Posted 21 July 2010
Young disabled people across the North West share their view of the transition from child to adult services, informing improvements to services.
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PhotoVoice Auction of Exceptional Photographs 2009
Event date 08 December 2009
The Auction is a firm fixture in the photography industry calendar. Its reputation grows each year and it has become associated with some of the world’s most iconic photography.
PhotoVoice was overwhelmed by the generosity of the photography community this year, and was proud to announce its most impressive collection of prints to date. This year the bidders had the opportunity to bid on prints by legendary masters including Eve Arnold, Bert Hardy, Thurston Hopkins, Patrick Litchfield, Nadav Kander, Mary Ellen Mark, Steve McCurry, Terry O’Neil and Herb Ritts as well as the great names of the future such as Giacomo Brunelli, Li Fan, Tim Hetherington and Anastasia Taylor-Lind.
Images of What is Ours Gallery - Paraguay
Posted 15 April 2010
Images of What is Ours, our Paraguay project with Amnesty International and the Yakye Axa and Sawhoyamaxa communities.
Image © 2010 Jose Florentin / Amnesty International / Tierra Viva / PhotoVoice
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Opportunities to get involved
Posted 22 March 2010
PhotoVoice is currently recruiting for a new trustee to bring legal expertise to its active board. More details.
PhotoVoice is also currently recruiting for several volunteer interns to support different areas of our work. Find out more.
PhotoVoice Lecture Series
Event date 10 May 2010
Sundance film festival and World Press Photo winner Tim Hetherington will be delivering a lecture at The Kings Place on May 10th 2010.
Click here for full details
PhotoVoice Newsletter February 2010
Posted 11 February 2010
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London Art Fair 2009
Posted 22 December 2009
PhotoVoice is delighted to have been invited to exhibit at the London Art Fair for the second year running. For more information and details about the 241 ticket offer please click here
PhotoVoice Training Workshops
New dates have been added - Places are filling up fast, to book please click here
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PhotoVoice Auction of Exceptional Photographs 2011
Event date 22 November 2011
The renowned PhotoVoice Auction of Exceptional Photographs is back this autumn, showcasing a unique collection of world class prints from photography legends, contemporary masters and emerging talent.
Over 80 prints will be auctioned, including photographs by Eve Arnold, Tim Flach, Veronica Bailey, Herb Ritts, Brian Griffin, Tony McGee, Sarah Moon, Simon Roberts and David Chancellor.
Tuesday 22nd November
6pm-10pm, live auction starts 8pm
Auctioneer: Jeffrey Archer
Hosted by Reuters
The Thomson Reuters Building, 30 South Colonnade, Canary Wharf, London, E14 5EP
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>Tickets £20 in advance - click here to book tickets
Kindly supported by Reuters and Clifford Chance
For an early glimpse of our auction lots, visit our preview exhibition at La Galleria Pall Mall, from 14th-18th November, click here for more details.
The Silent Auction has already opened!
See our online catalogue for all our silent auction lots and details of how to bid!
Auction catalogue
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