Are you a teacher hoping to get your students excited about photography and involved in a good cause? Collective Lens is reaching out to classrooms in an effort to get youth excited about photojournalism and social change.
We’re on Twitter, and here are some interesting links from our contacts.
Voices of Sudan, a photography book by David Johnson, hopes to raise awareness of the daily strife of the victims of the genocide in Darfur. 100% of the profits go directly towards constructing wells and supplying medicine to refugees in the region.
Now that the elections in the United States are over, a number of photographs have been compiled on various sites. Many of them are recaps of Obama’s and McCain’s election campaign, and the photos are terrific.
An interview with Adria Mooney and James DiPadua, the founders of Partners with GLOW, an organization working to help AIDS orphans in Zambia in partnership with the GLOW Club. GLOW (Girls Leading Our World) is a loosely defined organization started by a Peace Corps volunteer, and has since spread throughout the Peace Corps. Adria and James visited Adria’s sister, Alyssa Mooney, in Zambia. Alyssa is currently a Peace Corp volunteer in Mushota, Zambia, and her work inspired Adria and James to become involved when they returned home to the U.S.