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NewsANNOUNCING THE DAYLIGHT/CDS PHOTO AWARDS DEADLINE: Saturday, May 15, 2010, 8 P.M. (EST) JURORS: Peter Van Agtmael's Daylight Podcast Featured by PBS's POV Peter Van Agmael's Daylight Podcast, commemorating the five year anniversary of the Iraq war, is now featured on PBS's POV. Since the beginning of 2006, Van Agmael has documented the consequences of America's Wars, at home and abroad. In 2008, he helped organize the exhibition and book Battlespace, a retrospective of unseen work from 22 photographers covering Iraq and Afghanistan. read more » The Black Snapper Online Magazine The Black Snapper is an online magazine for talented photographers from all over the world. The Black Snapper magazine website presents a new artist every day, in a dedicated slideshow comprising up to twenty images. Weekly selections are made by guest curators and this week Daylight editor Michael Itkoff is curating. Check it out: http://www.theblacksnapper.net/ |
Community ProgramsAkwasasne, USA - Darkroom construction
One of the first Daylight initiatives, the darkroom construction at Akwasasne has recently been completed, thanks to the generosity of our donors.
Approximately eight thousand Mohawk Indians live on the Akwasasne Reservation, which straddles the St. Lawrence River on the border of the United States and Canada. One of the first Daylight initiatives, the darkroom construction at Akwasasne has recently been completed, thanks to the generosity of our donors. read more »
Baghdad, Iraq - Camera distribution
Photo by Jassim Mohammad
Since April of 2004, Daylight has been compiling photographs taken by Iraqi civilians in Baghdad and Falluja. This important photo-historical record represents a unique, and human, perspective on the war in Iraq. The photographs are currently touring the United States in a traveling exhibition curated by Pixel Press and made possible by funding from the Open Society Institute. read more » Crossroads School, Harlem, USA - Photography workshops
During the 2005 school year Daylight Magazine led a photography course with 6th, 7th and 8th graders of Crossroads School in New York City.
The class consisted of alternating critique and activity days. The course was a success and we are making arrangements to construct a fully operational darkroom at the school.
Foto Baryo, Batangas, Philippines - Community darkroom
Daylight Community Arts Foundation would like to welcome Foto Baryo, an inspiring community darkroom that recently opened in the Philippines. “Foto Baryo” is a community darkroom recently established in the small town of Batangas, Philippines. After many years of collecting donated darkroom equipment and photography materials, Fernando Afable established this center in his hometown to share his passion for photography with Filipinos through community programs. read more »
International Street TeamThe Daylight Magazine Street Team is looking for those interested in harnessing and cultivating a synergy among international image-makers and image-consumers in an effort to empower the public to use images; not simply be subjected to them. La Boquilla, Colombia - Camera distribution/exhibition
La Boquilla is a fishing village outside of the growing resort town of Cartegena, Colombia. The community, a former slave colony that flourished for over 150 years, is facing a rapid economic decline due to a variety of political and environmental forces. In the winter of 2005, the photographers Roger Triana and Lorena Turner went to La Boquilla for the first time. read more »
Laos P.D.R. - Camera distribution/workshops
In this ongoing participatory photography project, Vincent Cianni has been distributing cameras to the novices and monks of Wat Aham, one of the more than twenty temples in the Laotian town of Luang Probang.
This engaging project allows us to see the world from the eyes of the monastic community. read more »
Mehdiganj, India - Camera distribution
Daylight Community Arts Foundation is proud to introduce a new program in Mehdiganj, India where villagers in a farming community have come together to protest Coca Cola's exploitation of their most precious resource, water. read more »
New Orleans, USA - Camera distribution
Shortly after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, D.C.A.F. distributed disposable cameras throughout the upper ninth ward the week after it re-opened.
Informal photography workshops were led by Daylight staff with residents whose homes, families, jobs and lives have been drastically altered by the hurricane. The images from this initiative tell the real and tragic story of the hardships of post-Katrina life.
Nueva Alianza, Guatemala - Biodiesel workshops
In Daylight Magazine Issue #3 (Sustainability), we featured a selection of photographs taken by alternative fuel producing communities around the United States. This Daylight initiative has since spread around the world to include documentation of alternative fuel production in Papua New Guinea and Colombia. Now, in this project update, Matthew Rudolf relates his exciting work with a community in Guatemala. read more »
Nyeri, Kenya - Camera distribution/workshops
The Huruma Children's Home is an orphanage in Nyeri, Kenya, with 52 children and adults aged 9-22 who are victims of poverty, abuse, and disability. The orphanage is a unique community in which the children have taken up equal responsibility, along with the staff, in taking care of each other.
Most community members are not aware that the Home also takes care of adults with physical and mental disabilities. read more »
West Bank, Palestinian territories - Camera distribution
Daylight Magazine recently sent a number of disposable cameras to people living in Israel and Palestine. Leena Dallasheh's words are below: read more »
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