These links will take you to online reports, slideshows, videos, and other online materials about preK-12 photo-education programs and projects around the world. You can learn from what your colleagues have achieved, and use such accounts to substantiate your own claims for the results such projects generate in your grant proposals and other solicitations of support:
- Images of Childhood in South Africa Ten Years After Apartheid. First-hand account by Alex Fattal of his work with a program for children in Zaire. From the journal ChildrenFIRST, Issue 56 (July/August 2004).
- “Visions & Voices, Rights & Realities: An Exhibition of Images and Stories by South African Children about Their Rights.” This exhibition was the climax of intensive work by Alex Fattal (Documentary Researcher for the Children’s Rights Centre and Lewis Hine Documentary Fellow) in conjunction with non-governmental and community-based organizations in all nine provinces of South Africa. Click here for a pdf download of Fattal’s project report.
- “Photography Workshops and Expositions by children from the Cape-Vert archipelago”: Describes a 2003 project that “consist[ed] of organising workshops on photographic creation with street children from Cape Verde, animated by young photographers and local artists.” Report by Mélanie Barthélemy, from LEA International: Links to Education and Art, sponsored by UNESCO. In French. (PDF download)
- Self-Discovery Through Photography Workshop: Describes a 2001 project created by Miren Creixell at the Juanita Apartment School in Seattle, Washington. (PDF download)
- USC Francophone Research & Resource Center: Brief description of “Teaching French with photography,” a Spring 2006 program conducted by photographer Olivier Culmann at the University of Southern California. (PDF download)
- When A Picture Is Worth 1,000 Words: Photography Class Teams with Sixth Street Workshop: Kate Morris’s Winter 2008 report on a project in San Jose, CA. (PDF download)
- “Summer Arts Study in Pinhole Photography Makes Indelible Impressions on Young Students”: This report on a successful program at the Brooklyn Friends School in 2003 includes basic instructions on making a pinhole camera. (PDF download)
- “Photography workshop at Monte Alto Junior High School exposes students to renowned photographer”: Report on a project in the El Paso, Texas school system in 2000. (PDF download)
