COMMUNITY VOICES
Wide Angle Youth Media’s Community Voices program teaches young people how to make compelling photographs and tell stories of their experiences. Through free photography workshops throughout the community, the program provides technical training and media production to over 130 students each year.
This program gave Wide Angle our first publication, This Is Baltimore. This book, comprised of powerful student self-portraits, aims to change how youth are perceived and shift the focus on Baltimore’s youth to one of celebration and encouragement.
In the spring, WAYM offers free 2 day 2-hour photography workshops to Baltimore schools and community organizations. If you are interested in hosting a Community Voices workshop at your Baltimore school or organizations, submit an application to us today!
Example Courses
AGES 16-24
Create, Capture, & Conquer Series
By learning how to employ professional-grade photography techniques using their smartphones, students will feel empowered to amplify their voice using the tools they already have access to. Topics covered lean toward systems change and awareness, and include: Building a Photography with Purpose, How to Make your Posts Pop, and Taking a Great Selfie: Beyond the Basic.
AGES 12-16
Visual Storytelling
Students will learn how to use photography to tell a personalized story and publish this narrative onto their own web page using Wix.com. Topics include: understanding conceptual photography, different photography styles, writing about their projects, and learning web page development. Through Visual Storytelling, students will develop critical thinking skills and some of the management skills professional artists use in their career.
AGES 14-18
Social Action Photography
Students will create a short photo-captioned narrative with images, text, and a clear call to action. Participants will identify social or environmental issues they care about, and learn the basics of lighting, composition, frame and liberatory art critique. Students will use their cell phones to capture images.
In Capture, Create, & Conquer students utilized free online programs and cellphone cameras to express themselves and the world around them. Students combined tools they had on hand with graphic design elements and professional photography techniques to create tone and purpose in their photos, cultivating in their "This Is Me" autobiographical photo series.
