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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.