PHOTOJOURNALISM HUB IS A PARTNER OF HF Arts Fest 2019
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Picturing Community Engagement
White City Place Holds PhotojoWhite City Place | 18 April 2019
In April 2019, Photojournalism Hub brought together photographers, community organisations and practitioners at White City Place for a discussion exploring participatory photography and ways of working with communities.
Curated by Photojournalism Hub founder and director Cinzia D’Ambrosi, the event brought together Tom Elkins, CEO of PhotoVoice; Andy Fearn, Director of Protection Approaches; photographer and FotoSynthesis director Ingrid Guyon; and photographers Becky Warnock and Grace Gelder, whose work includes participatory approaches.
The discussion explored how photography can be used collaboratively with communities and considered different methodologies for engaging people in projects that address sensitive social issues.
A central part of the event was the question of how community outreach can be developed in a respectful and safe way. During the Q&A, local community members asked the speakers about building meaningful relationships, reaching people who may be excluded from traditional photography projects and ensuring that participation does not cause further harm.
The speakers drew on their own experiences of working with communities around sensitive subjects, including projects involving young people and self-harm.
The event reflected an important strand of Photojournalism Hub’s early work: bringing practitioners together to question how photojournalism is made, who gets to tell stories and how photographers can work responsibly with the people whose lives they document.
It also reflects the Hub’s wider commitment to using photography not simply to represent communities, but to engage people in the process of telling stories and addressing issues that matter to them.
Read the original article on White City Place:
White City Place Holds Photojournalism Hub Talk on ‘Picturing Community Engagement
White City Place Holds Photojournalism Hub Talk On ‘Picturing Community Engagement’
How Photography is Empowering London’s Marginalised Communities
In December 2018, Londonist featured the work of photographer and Photojournalism Hub founder Cinzia D’Ambrosi in an article exploring how photography can give visibility to communities affected by poverty, housing insecurity, discrimination and social exclusion.
The article focuses on D’Ambrosi’s long-term work with communities in west London, including The People’s Estates, which documented residents facing redevelopment and the threat of losing their homes, and The Other Half, which explored the experiences of people living with hidden homelessness.
It also introduced the Photojournalism Hub, then newly established in White City with support from Hammersmith United Charities. The Hub was founded on the belief that photography can be more than a way of documenting social issues: it can be a way for people to tell their own stories, create dialogue and bring their experiences to those with the power to influence change.
At the time, D’Ambrosi described this approach as Citizen Visual Journalism — using photography to help communities document their experiences and bring their stories to policymakers, charities and wider audiences.
The article also featured Prejudice and Us, a project developed with Protection Approaches in which young people explored their experiences of racism and prejudice through photography and peer interviews. Their work created a platform for young people to share their experiences with police and councillors.
Alongside stories of poverty, displacement and insecurity, the article recognised the resilience, family connections and strength within the communities D’Ambrosi photographed. It reflected an approach that remains central to Photojournalism Hub today: using photography to understand people’s experiences, question injustice and make stories that are too often overlooked visible.
The article was published at an important moment in the development of Photojournalism Hub, documenting the ideas and values that shaped the organisation from its earliest days.
Read the full article on Londonist:
How Photography Is Empowering London’s Marginalised Communities
https://londonist.com/london/features/how-photography-is-helping-london-s-working-class-communities
PHOTOJOURNALISM FOR YOUTHS
Our photojournalism session for young people was very inspiring today. We talked about our local area and jotted down immediate thoughts and feelings.
MARGINAL Exhibition
MARGINAL
RE:CENTRE GALLERY
7-9 June 2019
CURATED BY CINZIA D’AMBROSI
Photography on Gender-Based Issues: Strengths and Limits
PHOTOGRAPHY ON GENDER BASED ISSUES: STRENGTHS AND LIMITS
ON IN LONDON | 24 January 2019
In January 2019, ON IN LONDON featured Photojournalism Hub ahead of a special event exploring how photography can address gender-based issues and give visibility to experiences that are often difficult to discuss or overlooked.
The event, held at the Imperial White City Incubator on 4 February 2019, brought together photographers working on different aspects of gender, identity and violence.
Photojournalist Giovanna del Sarto and artist Antonia Porter presented their multimedia project Still Figuring Out What It Means to Be a Man, exploring masculinity in the context of South Africa.
Photojournalist Wamaitha Ng’ang’a presented Speak Out, an ongoing project centred on women sharing the stories of survivors of domestic violence.
The presentations were followed by a discussion and Q&A, creating a space to consider not only what photography can reveal about gender-based issues, but also the responsibilities and limitations involved in representing deeply personal experiences.
The article also describes Photojournalism Hub’s early mission: to promote photojournalism focused on social justice and to connect, organise and develop projects and events using photography as a tool for engagement and dialogue.
The event is part of the early history of Photojournalism Hub and reflects an approach that remains central to the organisation today — using photography to question social injustice, create space for difficult conversations and bring underrepresented experiences into public view.
Read the original article on ON IN LONDON:
Photography on Gender-Based Issues: Strengths and Limits
https://onin.london/photography-on-gender-based-issues-strengths-and-limits%EF%BB%BF/
ONIN LONDON
Calling all photographers! Got a photo project you’re working on, but in need of help in getting sponsorship so you can exhibit your shiny new prints?
Well you’re in luck, Photographer Cinzia D’Ambrosi is hosting a workshop on ‘How to Fund your Photography Project’ on the 30th November at Petit Miracles in Shepherds Bush. The Workshop is a great opportunity to explore and learn of the various routes for funding a photography project and how to successfully market photographic skills as a business.
To read more Here
No more police brutality
Photos by Deniz Turk
Another death at the hands of police brutality and the world goes on fire: enough is enough. People have descended to the streets demanding justice for George Floyd, who died on May 2nd in Minneapolis, Minnesota after white police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes while handcuffed and lying face down on the street. The life of another black person so unjustly and mercilessly cut short has touched hearts and angered of millions of people around the world. Large numbers of demonstrations organised by Black Lives Matter and many more globally have demanded justice and the end of police brutality in remembrance for the many who have died because of the colour of their skin.
published on 27th June 2020
DENIZ TURK
IG: @DenizTurkk
www.denizturk.net
Mandela Park, Amsterdam
Black Lives Matter protest at the Mandela Park, Amsterdam, 10 June 2020. Photography by Daniele Napolitano
DANIELE NAPOLITANO (Rome, Italy)
Website: napolitanodaniele.portfolio.com
Instagram: dani_napo /
Videos: Vimeo
BLACK LIVES MATTER – EUROPE 2020
Paris, France
published on 10 June 2020
Photos by Roberto di Mola
Paris, 2 June 2020: The demonstration in support of the family of Adama Traoré, a black boy died on 19 July 2016 in the barracks of the “gendarmerie” of Persan ( Val d’Oise), collected more than 20,000 people gathered outside the Court of Paris despite the prohibition of the (Prefecture). An appeal to demonstrate was launched in the previous days by the committee “Justice pour Adama” denouncing a “rejection of justice” in a case that became for its defenders the symbol of the fight against police violence: in four years, three medical investigations have denied the responsibilities of the “gendarmes”, then that a private one ordered by the family of Adama states the opposite.
The demonstration follows the spear in recent days of the hashtag #Moiaussijaipeurdevantlapolice and the assassination of the afro-American George Floyd’s in the US. Assa Traoré, sister of Adama, in an interview with Franceinfo said that the death of Floyd recalls that of Adama relaunching this link in another statement issued to BFMTV where he declares that “the indignation denounced in the United States is the same as what happens in France.” After a peaceful start marked by choruses and applause, the police used force to disperse the huge crowd, causing rioting for hours in the area surrounding the Tribunal.
Rome, Italy
Photos by Daniele Napolitano
During the Italian National Republic Day on the 2nd June, a group of women stands in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. The name of the group ‘Rete Donne Migranti e Figlie’, literally translating’ Network of Migrant women and daughters’ organised the protest in a significative place; by the monument that remembers the Italian deaths in the Battle of Dogali in 1887 during the Italian colonisation of Eritrea. On the group’s facebook page the aims of the protest are as follow: ‘June 2nd, 2020- there is nothing to praise. Today we celebrate the Italian Republic based on class, gender and race discrimination and on migrants’ exploitation and criminalization.’
London, UK
Photographers:
PIERO ORONZO (Paris, France)
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ROBERTO DI MOLA (Paris, France)
Instagram: mirai.mir
DANIELE NAPOLITANO (Rome, Italy)
Website: napolitanodaniele.portfolio.com
Instagram: dani_napo /
Videos: Vimeo
GEMMA MANCINELLI (London, UK)
Instagram: @gemmamancinelli
Facebook: @gemmamanciphoto
Twitter: @gemmamanci
FATIMA SANCHEZ (London, UK)
Instagram: fatimasanchezphoto