PROOF TURNS TEN on Monday 17 October 2016, with a celebration auction featuring some outstanding and award winning photographers who have generously donated their work in support of PROOF and social justice.
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PROOF Turns Ten - Bruce Davidson
PROOF Turns Ten on Monday 17 October 2016, with a celebration auction featuring some outstanding and award winning photographers who have generously donated their work in support of PROOF and Social Justice.
Read MorePROOF Turns Ten - Elliot Landy
PROOF TURNS TEN on Monday 17 October 2016, with a celebration auction featuring some outstanding and award winning photographers who have generously donated their work in support of PROOF and social justice.
Read MorePROOF Turns Ten - Ron Haviv
PROOF Turns Ten on Monday 17 October 2016, with a celebration auction featuring some outstanding and award winning photographers who have generously donated their work in support of PROOF and Social Justice.
Read MorePROOF Turns Ten - Aaron Siskind
PROOF TURNS TEN on Monday 17 October 2016, with a celebration auction featuring some outstanding and award winning photographers who have generously donated their work in support of PROOF and social justice.
Read MorePROOF Turns Ten - Toby Braun
PROOF Turns Ten on Monday 17 October 2016, with a celebration auction featuring some outstanding and award winning photographers who have generously donated their work in support of PROOF and Social Justice.
Read MorePROOF Turns Ten - Phil Borges
PROOF TURNS TEN on Monday 17 October 2016, with a celebration auction featuring some outstanding and award winning photographers who have generously donated their work in support of PROOF and social justice.
Read MorePROOF Turns Ten - David Maisel
PROOF TURNS TEN on Monday 17 October 2016, with a celebration auction featuring some outstanding and award winning photographers who have generously donated their work in support of PROOF and social justice.
Read MorePROOF Turns Ten - David Goldes
PROOF TURNS TEN on Monday 17 October 2016, with a celebration auction featuring some outstanding and award winning photographers who have generously donated their work in support of PROOF and social justice.
Read MoreProof Turns Ten - William John Kennedy
PROOF Turns Ten on Monday 17 October 2016, with a celebration auction featuring some outstanding and award winning photographers who have generously donated their work in support of PROOF and Social Justice.
Read MorePROOF Turns Ten - Rick Finkelstein
PROOF Turns Ten on Monday 17 October 2016, with a celebration auction featuring some outstanding and award winning photographers who have generously donated their work in support of PROOF and Social Justice.
Read MorePROOF Turns Ten - Ed Kashi
PROOF Turns Ten on Monday 17 October 2016, with a celebration auction featuring some outstanding and award winning photographers who have generously donated their work in support of PROOF and Social Justice.
Read MorePROOF's latest exhibition at PHOTOVILLE in September
PROOF is proud and excited to announce our “Broken?” exhibition, which addresses the injustices within the United States criminal justice system and mass incarceration, has been selected for display at the annual Photoville event.
Read MoreExecutive Director Leora Kahn Presents at IASFM Conference
PROOF Executive Director Leora Kahn presented a paper on the findings and experiences of PROOF's signature Witnessing: Working with Testimony for Refugee Advocacy workshop with Anita Fábos of Clark University at the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM) Conference. In its 16th year, the IASFM Conference was held from July 12-15, 2016 at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland.
Refugee and migrant testimonies have helped stimulate and shape social change, and have on occasion been an effective tool for policy change and social transformation. But while advocacy on behalf of refugees often demonstrates the best of intentions, many social advocates grapple unsuccessfully with the power differentials at all stages of the process. Using techniques derived from drama and experiential learning, practitioners learn to recognize narrative strategies and ethical dilemmas inherent in sharing, choosing, and representing the difficult subject matter produced by many refugees. By developing an embodied understanding of power relations, advocates struggling with the ethics of representation of refugee and forced migrant narratives can identify strategies for producing alternative narrative frames. Drawing from the results of a series of workshops provided to a mixed group of refugee service professionals, community leaders, journalists, artists, and academics, Ms. Kahn and Dr. Fábos' paper reflects upon our use of these practices as a way to encourage empathetic listening and develop strategies of narrative disruption for refugee advocacy.
Witnessing: Working with Testimonies for Refugee Advocacy
Learn more about PROOF's educational workshop to advance human rights and our group of inspiring participants who work in the fields of displacement and forced migration.
Read MoreNow Accepting: Picture Justice 2016 Applications
Interested in learning about mass incarceration and photography? Apply now!
Read MoreUnearthing PROOF's Latest Exhibit in Delhi
PROOF exhibits Unearthed: Stories of Courage in the Face of Sexual Violence, a three-year-long project that documents stories of sexual violence in India.
Read MoreLegacy of Rape Opens at Columbia University
PROOF is excited to announce a panel discussion and exhibition and Columbia University
Read MoreConfronting Issues of Criminal Justice
Created as part of a summer human rights photojournalism program, Picture Justice is organized by UNIS Global Politics teacher Abby MacPhail, in collaboration with Proof: Media for Social Justice.
Throughout August 2015, Picture Justice students spent two intensive weeks investigating the U.S. criminal justice system. Using New York City as their classroom, they met with representatives from local human rights organizations working on policy reform and providing services to the formerly incarcerated. Participants also trained with professional photographers from Proof, and met with 17 formerly incarcerated people to hear their stories and take their portraits.
Read MoreMass Incarceration Symposium for High School Students
Ever wanted to learn more about the U.S. criminal justice system?
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