Through Our Eyes: Photojournalism for Women Around the World (Archive)

Global Press Institute is raising funds to bring photojournalism training and cameras to their award-winning women reporters in 25 countries throughout the developing world. To receive contributions the project must be funded in full by 6/29/13 To help: www.kickstarter.com/projects/1...
Global Press Institute (GPI) uses journalism as a development tool to educate, employ and empower women, who become professional local reporters producing ethical, authentic news coverage that elevates global awareness and ignites social change.
Over the last 7 years we have trained and employed 133 women across 26 developing countries to be ethical, investigative, award-winning journalists. In 2013 we are providing additional photojournalism training to ensure that every GPI reporter can make powerful images to accompany her world-changing journalism.
At GPI, we believe that in the hands of women, journalism and photojournalism can elevate global awareness and spur local change on a variety of issues. "Through Our Eyes" is a photojournalism project that will showcase powerful images in 2 dynamic ways -- a full color news photography book and a portrait exhibition to be showcased in 3 cities.
The project will celebrate the power of images taken by local women journalists. The photography book, written by GPI founder Cristi Hegranes and photographer Paige Stoyer, will feature photography by and about the women journalists of GPI around the world. The portrait exhibit will feature the faces of the journalists of GPI. The portrait exhibition will be shown in San Francisco, Portland in New York in 2014. All portraits will be taken by other professional women photographers who provided photojournalism training to GPI reporters in 2013.
First, we teamed up with brilliant, professional photojournalists around the globe to bring new cameras to 10 GPI News Desks this year. The photojournalists will host an intensive 2-day photojournalism training in each location in order to enable GPI reporters to elevate the quality of images they take to pair with their award-winning news coverage.
Then, for the next 12 months we will gather the best and most powerful images captured by GPI reporters in the course of their reporting. These high-impact photographs will address local social justice and human rights issues as well as showcase the beauty and development occurring in their communities. The images will fill the pages of the first ever GPI photography book "Through our Eyes" -- a full color, 7x7 collection of global images.
After the training, the trainers will take portraits of the GPI reporters to be included in the "Through Our Eyes" gallery tour and photography book. The portraits will represent the diverse locations where GPI operates -- Haiti, Zambia, Kashmir, Cameroon and Sri Lanka to name a few! These images will powerfully represent the brave, bold women of GPI who have dedicated themselves to the craft of journalism in order to bring positive change to our world.
Supporting this project means supporting the creation of two pieces of art -- the book and portrait exhibit -- that will celebrate the women journalists and photojournalists of GPI who use journalism as a development tool to ignite social change!
GPI has had an enormous impact on the world -- training journalists, elevating global awareness on critical issues, and igniting social change. More than 25% of GPI stories in the last two years have catalyzed direct action, sparking social protest, provoking international attention to issues first covered by GPI, and even changing laws in two countries.
For example, in 2011, when the Parliament of Nepal passed a new anti-discrimination law about inter-caste marriages, a member of the Prime Minister's legal team credited GPI Senior Reporter Tara Bhattarai with forcing the issue into the national conversation.
GPI's 2012 reporter survey demonstrated the impact that GPI has on the lives of the women in the program: 100% reported having a greater sense of basic journalism principles and journalistic ethics after GPI training, while 79% said they can now use a computer more efficiently. Additionally, 100% reported having a greater understanding of journalistic ethics after GPI training.
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