Resources
Annenberg Space for Photography
Located in Los Angeles, the Annenberg Space for Photography
is a cultural destination dedicated to exhibiting both digital and print photography in an intimate environment. The venue is the first solely photographic cultural destination in the LA area. For those who are not located in LA, you can find photographs and videos from current and past exhibitions online. We recommend you check out "Water: Our Thirsty World"- a 2010 Annenberg exhibit examining the precarious state of our world's fresh water. View the exhibit at http://www.annenbergspaceforphotography.org/exhibitions/water_exhibit.asp, or check out the National Geographic video (below) coinciding with the exhibit. Artists Striving to End Poverty
Based in New York City, Artists Striving To End Poverty (ASTEP) connects established and emerging artists with underserved youth to use the arts as a tool to foster creativity, teach life skills, and awaken young people's imaginations. Since 2003, ASTEP has partnered with established community organizations to deliver after-school, holiday, and summer programs that are grounded in arts education. ASTEP builds a child's capacity for self expression and inspires youth to develop the skills they need inside and outside the classroom. Learn more at http://www.asteponline.org.
Collective Lens
Collective Lens promotes social change through photography. Website visitors can upload a photo and help bring awareness to issues around the world that they see as pertinent. Learn more at www.collectivelens.com.
Drik Picture Agency
Drik Picture Agency is a network of creative individuals around the world who challenge western media hegemony and see the "majority world not as fodder for disaster reporting, but as a vibrant source of human energy and a challenge to an exploitative global economic system." Its training programmes range from providing education for working class children to training Asia's brightest young photojournalists. Learn more at www.drik.net.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication
The center has released a Photography Policy Worksheet intended to guide international development NGOs in developing a code of conduct for staff who photograph human subjects. While the document is written as a checklist for NGOs to use in developing their organizational policies towards photography, many of the ideas included in the "Code of Conduct" section of the document are pertinent to all photographers. Check out the document at www.photoshare.org/photopolicy/policyworksheet.doc.
JR
The Parisian artist flyposts large black-and-white photographic images on the streets of cities around the world to challenge "widely held preconceptions" and talk "about commitment, freedom, identity, and limit." He won the 2011 TED prize for the far-reaching impact of his work. Learn more at www.jr-art.net, and check out his speech as the 2011 TED Prize winner by playing the video below.
Magnum Foundation
The Magnum Foundation was created in 2007 to support the production of documentary photography and use of visual imagery to promote positive social change. The Foundation believes that such change comes about through rigorous, independent documentation; active collaboration with other grass-roots and media organizations on distribution strategies; and through the innovative presentation and exhibition of historical work. Learn more at http://magnumfoundation.org.
Nuru Project
The Nuru Project sells photojournalism prints to support storytellers and non-profits such as Kiva, Partners in Health, Acumen Fund, and Malaria No More. Learn more at http://www.nuruproject.org.
Open Society Foundations Documentary Photography Project
The Documentary Photography Project uses exhibits, workshops, grant-making, and public programs to explore how photography can shape public perception and effect social change. The project supports photographers whose work addresses social justice and human rights issues that coincide with OSI's mission of promoting and expanding open society. Learn more at http://www.soros.org.
UCLA Art and Global Health Center
Founded in 2006, the Art | Global Health Center at UCLA seeks to nurture a global network of artists and advocates working in the realm of public health. Harnessing the communicative power of the arts, the Center creates public health interventions that celebrate life, buttressed by principles of human rights and social justice. The Center's "Through Positive Eyes" project gives photographic voice to people living with HIV in major cities around the world. Learn more at http://throughpositiveeyes.org.
Women Empowered
For two and a half years, photographer Phil Borges visited dozens of projects organized by the non-profit organization, CARE, to empower women to improve their own well-being and the well-being of their communities in Africa, Asia and South America. "Women Empowered" is a book that contains the stories of 25 women he encountered, "whose bravery and determination speak to the universal themes of courage, empowerment, and human rights." Visit www.philborges.com/womenempowered/index.html.Email us to request that we add your organization to our Resources list.
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