Milton Adams will be featured at PROOF's 5th Annual Benefit Auction
Read MoreSelections from Milton Adams' work, "If Walls Could Speak," will be featured at PROOF's 5th Annual Benefit Auction
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Aline Smithson's "Standing on Top" will be at PROOF's 5th Annual Auction
Photographers of PROOF's 5th Annual Auction: Aline Smithson
Aline Smithson will be featured at PROOF's 5th Annual Benefit Auction
Read More"City of the Dead" by Ed Kashi will be displayed at PROOF's 5th Annual Auction
Photographers of PROOF's 5th Annual Benefit Auction: Ed Kashi
Ed Kashi will be featured at PROOF's 5th Annual Benefit Auction
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Workshop: Making an Impact with Visual Storytelling
World Press Photo and PROOF invite professional photographers worldwide to apply for their ‘Making an Impact with Visual Storytelling’ course. The workshop, which takes place in New York from 18-20 June, will focus on photography as an advocacy tool, and on how to make compelling visual stories, while successfully maintaining a balance between the aims of advocacy and journalistic ethics.
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WORKSHOP: MAKING AN IMPACT WITH VISUAL STORYTELLING →
World Press Photo and PROOF invite professional photographers worldwide to apply for their ‘Making an Impact with Visual Storytelling’ course. The workshop, which takes place in New York from 18-20 June, will focus on photography as an advocacy tool, and on how to make compelling visual stories, while successfully maintaining a balance between the aims of advocacy and journalistic ethics.
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Photo courtesy of Andrew Baker
Save the Date: PROOF's 2015 Annual Benefit Auction
Join us for a night celebrating PROOF and its mission to support human rights and peacebuilding through visual storytelling.
Swann Auction Galleries on Thursday, June 11 from 6 to 9 pm
PROOF Featured on Arts in the City →
Check out the video here. PROOF's Executive Director Leora Kahn discusses the concept of moral courage.
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Photo courtesy of Taylor Hynes
PROOF Displays Unearthed in Honor of the 59th Commission on the Status of Women
On March 12th, PROOF’s exhibit Unearthed: Stories of Courage in the Face of Sexual Violence was displayed during an NGO forum titled, “Initiatives to Prevent Violence Against Women in Asia Pacific Region” as part of the United Nations’ 59th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW).
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Source: Paul Lowe
Dzajo Krstić: From Neighbor to Rescuer
Ordinary people living nearby often decide the line that divides victims from survivors of genocide. While neighbors often are complicit in genocide, or are even active perpetrators, sometimes they instead become rescuers.
Read MorePROOF Unearthed, Tedx and Saudi Arabia →
Images taken by Smita Sharma for PROOF’s Unearthed project in India have been displayed at a Ted X conference event in Saudi Arabia on February 7th
The conference event hosted six female speakers who shared stories, research and realities of Muslim women and their identities as perceived by the world. The event explored the use of images and text and their potential as shape shifters of mindsets and the challenging of stereotypes. PROOF was delighted to support this event and the women holding and shaping this important conversation.
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Photo Credit: Q Sakamaki
Children and Modern Warfare: Nothing New Under the Sun
From Boko Haram to ISIS, today’s armed groups are increasingly willing to use children in adults’ wars
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UNEARTHED With PROOF
PROOF's Executive Director Leora Kahn and Photographer Smita Sharma traveled to New Delhi, India to work on PROOF's newest project, "UNEARTHED: stories of sexual violence and courage"
Read MoreUNIC Pretoria supports 5th annual Francophonie festival with exhibit on child soldiers
Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict
7 April 2014
In a call to raise awareness of the worldwide phenomenon of child soldiers, UNIC Pretoria provided support to the High Commission of Canada in Pretoria as well as the Alliance Française of Pretoria to display a photographic exhibition entitled “Children of War”: Broken Childhood”.
Produced originally by the UN Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, the exhibition will form part of the month-long Francophonie festival at the Alliance de Française in Pretoria from 20 March to 17 April 2014.
Accompanying the opening of the exhibition on 20 March was a film screening on child soldiers entitled, War Witch (French: Rebelle). With over 130 people in attendance, the film was followed by a panel discussion on the topic, moderated by journalist and broadcaster, Jean-Jaques Cornish. Giving an account of their different experiences and expertise on the topic of child soldiers, the two panel members, Patrizia Benvenuti, Chief of Child Protection for UNICEF South Africa and Jamala Safari, poet and author of “The long great agony and pure laughter of the god”, spoke passionately about the topic.
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Visual Tellings to Confront "The Legacy of Rape"
by Alexandra Pollak. Published by Broad Recognition, Yale University, 22 October 2014.
Longtime photojournalist, teacher Leora Kahn travels to countries in the aftermath of armed conflict, conducting interviews about gender-based violence. When she visited Colombia with her students, an interviewee named Rosa declined to share her story. International organizations came frequently to solicit Rosa’s testimony. They compiled her story alongside thousands of similar stories and targeted an international audience of spectators totally removed from the populations recovering from armed conflict. Rosa wanted, instead, for her testimony to affect her home, to be disseminated among the Colombian population—among others who had shared similar experiences, among their families, and among those who had perpetrated violence.
Read the full story here.
The Center For Social Innovation - PROOF's New Home
PROOF is excited to announce a big change for our organization- a move to the Center for Social Innovation in Chelsea’s historic Starrett-Lehigh building.
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16 Days of Activism
16 Days of Activism: PROOF Highlights Organizations Stopping Gender Based Violence the Other 349 Days
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#Honesty #ChildSoldiers
It's the honesty of those who share their testimonies that offers not only insight on the examination of how injustice affects their lives but also humanity as a whole
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#SafetyandSecurity
Sometimes in order to help others, one must risk their own personal safety and security in an extreme way.
Read More#SHELTER
Sometimes shelter means so much more than a roof over your head
Read MoreCelebrating Those Who Risked Everything to Give
Leora Kahn discusses PROOF's alternative perspective on giving.
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