Everyone! Everyone! I am SO excited to be able to finally share this exciting project with you. For the past year or so, I have been trying to find a way to combine my love of storytelling photography with my desire to advocate for women and girls. My hope is that the Girls in Focus workshops will do just that. What is Girls in Focus? The short version is simply this: documentary photography workshops for 10 young women in central Illinois, starting in January 2015. The long version is: Girls in Focus aims to empower young women through hands-on workshops that teach the art and science of documentary photography. Students are encouraged to seek out and portray stories in the world around them while learning to observe, anticipate, compose and ultimately capture the truth of their subjects with a greater sense of confidence and technical proficiency. Each student will be asked to select a topic to investigate and record with her camera over the course of the workshop. Girls in Focus seeks to encourage young women to assist one another by way of constructive criticism, peer reviews, and careful selection of their own images. Ultimately, each workshop will end with a gallery show of the best of each student’s work, as well as a coffee table book of student photo essays. If all goes well, we should be able to start taking applications in December. The first class will be limited to 10 students. Classes will last 8 weeks, followed by the gallery opening of student work. As Girls in Focus is created and sponsored by Kari Bedford Photography, we have a lot of grassroots work to do. I will spend the next 4 weeks, asking for your donations and support. If you cannot afford to donate, I hope you will consider sharing the project with your friends and family via social media and word-of-mouth. Please visit the project on Start Some Good and watch the video. We had a blast putting it together -- and I think it will help you understand why this effort is so very near and dear to my heart. Thank you.
Posted on: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 19:55:48 +0000
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