Guest Blogs

The Universal Challenge
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Fred Rune Rahm, participant in a PhotoVoice training programme in Norway in December, describes the impact of the using participatory photography in designing new programmes. PhotoVoice was a new concept for us when we first heard about it at a conference in...
Indonesian National Conference to Inspire Change
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Pak Ahmad Yunus from Kata Data Indonesia and Ibu Dewi Susanty, MAMPU Communications Officer share insights from a presentation of images from PhotoVoice's partnership with MAMPU at a national conference in Indonesia. The MAMPU program, or Empowering Indonesian Women for Poverty Reduction, supports members...
Advocating for the decentralisation of art
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Amina Gharred, photographer and participant in 'Through the People's Lens', PhotoVoice's partnership with the ODI, talks about the impact of photography on her life, and how she has set out to use photography as a mechanism for social change across...
The Secret Photographer by Tammy Ruggles
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Tammy Ruggles talks about her work as a legally blind photographer As a creative person with a progressive visual impairment known as RP (Retinitis Pigmentosa), I found ways to keep doing the things I loved. With reading and writing, it was...
PhotoVoice patron and acclaimed photographer Nick Danziger talks about a decade long photojournalism project
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Nick Danziger, patron of PhotoVoice and has just completed a decade long photojournalism project with World Vision. In 2005, Nick travelled to eight different countries to document how the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were affecting different people, especially women and...
Participatory photography with refugees from Syracuse
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24/12/2014 Rozlynn Jakes-Johnson took on a daunting task for her capstone project in the Central New York Master of Public Health program – coordinating a participatory photography project with eight refugees, only one of whom had ever used a camera....
Unchosen – Voices from Modern Day Slavery
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14/12/2014 Chloe Grahame talks about her involvement with the Photovoice project ‘Voice of Freedom’, and a recent evening of talks, film screenings, and awareness raising which took place on the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery. Modern slavery is...
Our Journey: Storytelling for Everyone
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12/12/2014 Emily Churchill Zaraa from Migrants Resource Centre reports from a migrant storytelling conference chaired by PhotoVoice [gdlr_quote align="center" ]Wherever you are in the world, you can sit behind a window and shout against migrants. But after the last swearword, try...
Julio Etchart – photovoice workshops in Singapore
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14/11/2014 Photojournalist Julio Etchart describes a participatory photography project with foreign domestic workers in Singapore. How it started Shortly after my arrival in Singapore - to accompany my partner to her post-doctoral academic fellowship at the NTU university over here,...
Photofoundation – Supporting Good Causes Through Photography
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28/10/2014 Tib George Ciocirlie, community manager at Photofoundation shares information about a new initiative designed to help charities use photography. Photography is more popular now than ever before. It is ubiquitous, and used continuously to capture feelings, make statements, start movements or...