Permalink 3 December 2010 at 15:03 by Ben Gray - Content Executive
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© Munna Kumar / SKA / PhotoVoicePhotoVoice works in the UK and overseas with individuals, local communities and partner organisations to create participatory photography programmes that achieve meaningful improvements in the lives of participants
Since its invention, photography has been used as a tool for social activism.
In the 1920 - 30s, photojournalists working within a humanitarian and liberal tradition used their cameras to document the plight of marginalised and persecuted groups around the world and publicised their stories to international audiences.
More recently, practitioners have sought alternatives to traditional documentary photography. This has led many photographers to work with participatory and collaborative methods where they develop a more involved relationship with their subject; sometimes working with them to create images, sometimes handing over the camera and supporting participants to create their own images.
PhotoVoice’s vision is for a world in which no one is denied the opportunity to speak out and be heard.
Their mission is to build skills within disadvantaged and marginalised communities using innovative participatory photography and digital storytelling methods so that they have the opportunity to represent themselves and create tools for advocacy and communications to achieve positive social change.
Alamy is proud to now have onboard a selection of images taken by PhotoVoice-trained photographers. This represents an opportunity for project participants to share their photographs with a wider audience and potentially a way to start earning money from their photography.
50% of PhotoVoice’s revenue from image sales goes to the photographer wherever possible, or is donated to a relevant charity or organisation.
This is a unique new source of images, offering refreshing perspectives on familiar and rarely represented subjects.
For more information on PhotoVoice and their activities, or to make a donation please visit their website.
Or take a look through their collection on Alamy.
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