caracas, VENEZUELA
100CAMERAS X ESPACIO ANNA FRANK
100cameras x Espacio Anna Frank is a part of a 8 class course that is custom designed by 100cameras to equip passionate creatives with the tools to empower youth in a community they care about with the opportunity to learn how to process their stories and create change. Pictured here are 100cameras students with Program Leaders, Elizabeth Schummer and Ricardo Jimenez on class graduation day held in partnership with local organization, Espacio Anna Frank.
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
During the Spring of 2018, 11 incredible students learned to tell their stories through 100cameras X Espacio Anna Frank in Caracas, Venezuela. In partnership with Espacio Anna Frank, a non-profit organization that seeks to bring the principles of coexistence and respect to students in schools, educating the children and young adults about the consequences of intolerance in societies. As reflected upon by the Program Leader — local Venezuelan, Elizabeth Schummer — this is an important topic to address during a time when the country is experiencing deep devastation by intolerance and social differentiation.
The students from 100cameras X Espacio Anna Frank live in a low resource community in Caracas and experience the everyday struggles that come from lack of resources and living below the poverty line. Upon completion of the 100cameras curriculum, the students gained an invaluable tool to process their past and present and to hopefully continue to pursue the confidence and determination to build a better future for themselves and their families.
ABOUT THE PROGRAM LEADER
As a recently retired Oral surgeon of thirty years, Elizabeth Schummer is proud to have taken the necessary steps towards a change in career to becoming a trained photographer. Pursued as a personal attempt to move forward and reinvent herself, she discovered photography as a way to see everything that surrounds her in a different way. As an individual already deeply passionate and aware about cultures and people, it now fascinates her as a photographer even more to search for details when it comes to people’s way of living and how different social groups work. During such a time as now in Venezuela, Elizabeth says it poignantly about how the opportunity to express oneself and one's story is a powerful and important tool:
“Photography has given me the possibility to narrate stories that interest me through images, to express and show others everything that I care for, and to revindícate the beauty that still surrounds us in my country despite all the negative things we face every day.”
Photo taken during 100cameras X Espacio Anna Frank by student, Diana -- Caracas, Venezuela 2018
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