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Still I Rise showcases students’ talents via its photographic project Through Our Eyes, arming students with cameras to tell their stories and lives through pictures. The collection of photographs has toured more than 86 cities in Europe and the USA.
Still I Rise showcases students’ talents via its photographic project Through Our Eyes, arming students with cameras to tell their stories and lives through pictures. The collection of photographs has toured more than 86 cities in Europe and the USA.
“Through Our Eyes” is a long-term photographic project, launched in 2019, that has involved 156 children aged 9 to 17. The young photographers are all students of Still I Rise’s emergency and international schools.
So far this project has reached the refugee camp in Samos (Greece), the camps for the internally displaced people of Ad-Dana in north-western Syria, and the Mathare slum in Nairobi, where about 500,000 people live in extreme poverty.
All 156 children had the opportunity to attend a photography class at the end of which they were given a disposable camera to capture the difficult conditions they experience first-hand.
The main objective of this project and the common thread connecting these places in the world is to give children the chance to express themselves by means of a universal language like photography. An important aspect of truly understanding scary or unfamiliar situations that seem so distant from our daily lives is to look through the eyes of those who live them. Although they find themselves living in extreme and profoundly unjust circumstances, they continue to earn their tomorrow one step at a time.
Navigate the digital exhibition of the first edition of the project which took place between December 2018 and August 2019. The 39 children are all students of Mazì, a youth center in Samos, Greece, operated by the Still I Rise NGO. The young photographers attended a photography lab taught by Nicoletta Novara.
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