Intro to Guadalajara

Imagine children as young as 6-years-old, running in and out of traffic on a 6-lane highway, trying to sell a piece of gum, wash a windshield, or juggle oranges for change.  They lack education, suffer from malnutrition, and are surrounded by a world of danger and loneliness.  Now imagine it is your job to tell the whole world who these children are. To breath light into an existence too few know about. That’s the critical role photographers working with non-profits and NGO’s play. It is exactly what our students with Truth With A Camera Workshop will learn during an intense week in Guadalajara, Mexico.

At over 5 million people, Mexico’s second largest city is one of the most modern in Mexico, though social inequity and urban poverty remain a constant and painful reality for the tens of thousands who have sunk desperately below an already subterranean poverty line.  This is no vacation.  During this week, American workshop students will be working along side students from the University of Guadalajara, one of the largest and most respected public institutions of higher education in Mexico. After each full day of shooting, students will spend the evening editing their work with some of the leaders in the field of documentary photography from America and Mexico. Their work will be documenting stories from one of our partnering NGOs, offering our participants the chance to be both witness and advocate. A chance to build experience and make a difference. A chance to show Truth to the world and in the end help these NGOs and Nonprofits tell their stories.

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