Picture Justice
ABOUT PICTURE JUSTICE
Educating and inspiring our next generation of Upstanders
Picture Justice equips participants with the skills to address social injustices in their own communities through a combination of photography, storytelling, and human rights education.
The program fosters critical thinking and active citizenship, promotes compassion and empathy, and equips participants with the skills needed to be social justice advocates.
YOUR COMMUNITY IS YOUR CLASSROOM
Participants work with professional photographers, journalists, and educators, to explore a local human rights and social justice issue. Each program is uniquely tailored so that participants can meet with a range of community leaders, such as lawyers, activists, and advocates working on reform, advocacy and social change. Participants capture photos and take testimonies from people who have lived experiences of the program topic.
The stories produced by participants have become newspapers, online zines or exhibitions. Picture Justice participants walk away with an invaluable set of research, artistic, and leadership skills.
Founded in 2014 in partnership with the United Nations International School.
Skills
Photography training
Personal story as advocacy tools
Knowledge of human rights issues
Public speaking and advocacy
In-school programming
Picture Justice can be integrated into school curriculum, providing a unique multi-faceted approach to learning about social justice, photography, and human rights within the classroom. Hear below from students from a recent in-school Picture Justice partnership with Avenues: The World School.
PICTURE JUSTICE 2019 TEAMS UP WITH
VOYAGERS PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL
In April this year, PROOF: Media for Social Justice worked together with students from Voyagers Preparatory High School to produce the exhibition, System Error as part of the Picture Justice program.
PICTURE JUSTICE AUSTRALIA 2019
PROOF’s Creative Director, Willhemina Wahlin, is leading a team of researchers from Charles Sturt University (CSU) and Swinburne University of Technology to run the first Picture Justice program in Australia (aptly named “Picture Justice Australia”).
Focusing on the themes of ‘community, citizenry and processes of democracy’, Picture Justice Australia was an intensive 5-day workshop program workshop program for university and high school students. Working under the themes of ‘community, citizenry and processes of democracy, workshops included:
Ethical Interviewing techniques
Design Thinking
Narrative Development
Story Editing
Photography for storytelling
Introduction to Civics
The program also featured a morning talk with Sandra Wallace, from the placemaking and community engagement team at Port Macquarie-Hastings Council (local government). This gave participants an example of open-ended interviewing techniques, and also gave them insight into ways they can become active in their local community.
Our research wants to understand young regional Australians better: how they view themselves as citizens, and what types of processes of democracy they already participate in. We’re also keen to know if this type of intensive, creative and multidisciplinary workshop program can encourage young people to raise their voices in their communities.
Picture Justice Australia is funded through CSU’s Faculty of Arts and Education Compact funding scheme, and a grant from Port Macquarie-Hastings Council. Additional support has been provided by PROOF, the Birpai Land Council, and The Whitlam Institute.
LOOK INSIDE OUR SUMMER 2018 PROGRAM
The summer students documented stories of activism and social change movements across the city. Their Zine; PICTURE the FUTURE, is below and available as a resource to all teachers and students.
SUMMER 2018 ZINE
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Picture Justice?
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To bring Picture Justice to your school or community, contact PROOF today.
