youth photography workshops
I lead Youth Photography Workshops for Israeli and Palestinian students at Roots/Shorashim/Judur and at the L.A. Mayer Museum of Islamic Art, and have led groups at the Jerusalem International YMCA, the Hand In Hand school, Neve Shalom - Wahat al-Salam village, and in the Jordan River Valley. “Nowhere [else] in the West Bank do Israeli pre-teens and young teenagers from settlements meet Palestinian kids from nearby towns and villages. They live in two different, absurdly parallel worlds.” Read more about the Roots Youth Photography program.
Citizen photography has long been used in conflict zones to document and advocate, but I'm using the medium to bring young people together via an unspoken artistic language and by maximizing what they have in common – their eyes and hearts. Students work on assignments that demand identity exploration, rediscovering their environment, rethinking about the people in it, and re-envisioning their future, and then share their findings with each other.
Citizen photography has long been used in conflict zones to document and advocate, but I'm using the medium to bring young people together via an unspoken artistic language and by maximizing what they have in common – their eyes and hearts. Students work on assignments that demand identity exploration, rediscovering their environment, rethinking about the people in it, and re-envisioning their future, and then share their findings with each other.
student photos