Latest News from PROOF
Days ago, the Holocaust Museum in Houston opened its doors to a major exhibition, Speaking Up! Confronting Hate Speech. This exhibition underscores how words have the power to incite genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
This is PROOF: Media for Social Justice in action!
Read MoreThe Picture Justice Australia program, created in collaboration with PROOF: Media for Social Justice, focused on the theme of ‘community, citizenry and processes of democracy’ and featured a series of workshops led by a team of experts from the fields of civics and citizenship education, photography, design, and education.
Read MoreAfter two months at the University of Dayton, America the Borderland exhibit will travel to El Paso, Texas, where it will open at the Cafe Mayan in July and remain open to the public until August.
Read MoreThe killing of Michael Brown in 2014 sparked outrage and launched a movement. For one-hundred days and nights, the country observed democracy in action as the community took to the streets to demand justice. While the popular narrative cast a scene of chaos and destruction, the full account goes untold. Ferguson Voices: Disrupting the Frame features the first-hand experiences of those individuals who witnessed and shaped the Ferguson uprising. The people of Ferguson have a story to tell--in their own words and through their own eyes--and this story is even more urgent today.
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Big Apple Playback Theater kicked off the second annual LINKBack community story program by visiting two senior care facilities to hear and share stories of activism.
Read More!PROOF WILL LAUNCH A NEW CAMPAIGN!
For the voter registration and get-the-vote-campaigns, legendary photographer Janette Beckman will take large-scale photographs of citizens paired with their short I Vote Because… statements.he campaign is a series of photographs of celebrities and local citizens sharing why voting is important to them.
Applications OPEN! Picture Justice Summer Intensive NYC July 2018.
Read MoreWitnessing travels to City Plaza Hotel, Athens, Greece
Read MoreThe Ferguson Voices; Disrupting the Frame Exhibition is on display at the Newark Public Library
Read MoreThe Picture Justice summer program focused on immigration in the US. The photo stories created by the students are featured in the first edition of the PROOF post - an advocacy newspaper that will be printed and distributed at schools in New York and New Jersey.
Read MoreFrank Dituri - Monica and the Moon is one of more than 30 pieces at this year's benefit auction held on Thursday 2nd November in New York City. Each year, PROOF is honored to collaborate with many amazing photographers and artists who donate their work in support of education and advocacy for human rights and social justice. Join us to bid and to support social change. Tickets at www.proof.org.
Read MoreBID on this iconic portrait of Keith Haring by Janette Beckman at our November 2nd Benefit Auction. Tickets on sale now at www.proof.org.
Londoner Janette Beckman began her career at the dawn of punk rock working for The Face and Melody Maker. She shot bands from The Clash to Boy George as well as 3 Police album covers. Moving to New York in 1982, she was drawn to the underground Hip Hop scene. Her photographs of pioneers such as Run DMC, Slick Rick, Salt’n’Pepa, Grandmaster Flash and Big Daddy Kane are in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Museum and the Museum of the City of New York.
Read MoreJOIN US on November 2nd to BID on the Hamburger original at our annual benefit auction.
Ben Hamburger is an artist and educator born and raised outside of Washington
DC. Working within the convergence of visual art and social engagement,
Hamburger creates artwork, facilitates workshops, and collaborates with diverse
communities around the world. His work is driven by his belief in the universality
of art and its potential to find meaning in complex situations.
Art can offer consolation, build resilience, amplify protest in immediate disasters or ongoing social emergencies. “Art Became the Oxygen” from the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture draws on responses from Katrina to Ferguson, Sandy to Standing Rock for powerful, ethical, and beautiful paths to healing. #ArtResponds
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