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RESOURCES FOR CREATIVE CHANGEArchive for Photography
Venice Arts
Venice Arts is an organization that provides photography, film and art skill and mentoring programs to build young people in the neighborhoods of Venice, CA.
Their mission is to bring “talented artists together with low-income young people to nurture their creativity, imagination, and talent. Our programs focus on those whose access to the arts, as artists or audience, has been limited.
Venice Arts’ mentor-artists guide young people through experiences with the arts, exposing them to the tools, ideas, and environments that help them express their creativity, build positive interethnic relationships, and improve their academic performance and job readiness.”
Visit their site to learn more. Venice Arts is also affiliated with the Institute for Photographic Empowerment (IPE).
Institute for Photographic Empowerment
The Institute of Photographic Empowerment (IPE). Sounds like what it is! The organization’s mission, per their website is:
“to support the study and practice of participant–produced documentary projects in photography, film, and digital media.
The Institute is a resource for people from around the globe—photographers, filmmakers, academics, researchers, and project participants—to share ideas, learn from one another, and develop the field.
The first such Institute of its kind in the world, IPE supports a virtual center on the web, annual conferences, and academic learning and research related to participant–produced photography and film. Additionally, it provides new opportunities for the traditionally disenfranchised to use their own images to communicate directly with policymakers about the social issues that profoundly affect their lives: HIV/AIDS, poverty, environmental degradation.
A unique university–community partnership, the Institute was jointly created by the renowned USC Annenberg School for Communication and Venice Arts, a prominent nonprofit leader in the field, in recognition of the growing international interest in photographic empowerment, particularly as a component in movements for social change.”
Visit IPE soon here.
