Photographers Without Borders
Posted by Marc | 9-12-2009 23:41 | Category: Design, Education, Third world
“Looking at the world and looking at ourselves through the camera lens.”
The Italian Fotografi Senza Frontiere (Photographers Without Borders) embodies the idea that the “other” always has a story to tell, and by listening to their story, they become less “other” than we thought.
Feelings and emotions frozen in a photograph are able to immortalize a moment, and to explain our differences, which are also our uniqueness.
Through photography, those who do not have a voice – and who, in the collective imagination exist only in the news – can find their own place, and in this way, can come to know themselves and relate to others.
These are our own convictions. Our projects begin from here.
In short: Fotografi Senza Frontiere is working to raise a new generation of photographers.
The association Fotografi Senza Frontiere (Onlus) began with photographer Giorgio Palmera’s laboratory in Managua, Nicuragua, in 1997. This lab was set up in collaboration with “Terra Nuova”, an Italian NGO for development cooperation, and with “Natras Network”, a Nicaraguan organization for the recovery and education of child and teenager workers.
In the city of Managua, Giorgio Palmera organized a photographic lab attended by children from all over Nicaragua. The aim of the lab was to offer these children a new way of expressing themselves, and the chance to learn the basics of a profession. Following from that first experience, Fotografi Senza Frontiere was founded in 2002, with the aim of repeating this model on larger scale, in other contexts.
The Fotografi Senza Frontiere program focuses on the realization of photography labs: places of creativity and awareness where kids can experience the analysis of their own reality, of the expressive and informative means and of the practice of a profession for the future. The teaching and the social aspects of the developing of cultural differences, lead the specific aims of FSF.
See some photo galleries here.
The video below shows the Uganda project: Portrait of Kalongo, 30 shots on forgotten conflicts and the return home maded by 20 young Ugandans students. For a month the boys have become photojournalist with a camera and recorder to collect experiences of life in the camp of displaced of Kalongo.
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