Shooting for Peace: Youth Behind the Lens
Harvard Art Museums
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Shooting for Peace: Youth Behind the Lens
Exhibit Dates: Nov. 17, 2011 - May 31, 2012
The young Columbian photographer's images have graced the walls of the UN General Assembly Building and the National Geographic Society, but for the children, the exhibits in their own communities are the most meaningful. Over the past ten years, the Shooting Cameras for Peace program has been teaching children of families who have fled war and poverty in the Columbian countryside how to use photographs to explore and express their own identities within their new communities.
Columbia is one of many sites worldwide where two non-profit groups, Shooting Cameras for Peace and the AjA Project connect cameras with children whose families have been displaced by violence and economic strife. The exhibition reveals the children's world as they see it - creating pinhole images, playful experiments with mirrors, hand painted photographs, and photo letters - and how they exhibited in their new hometowns.
11 Divinity Avenue
9am - 5pm seven days a week.
Closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day. Admission is $9 for adults, $7 for students and seniors, $6 for children 3- 18. Free with Harvard ID or Museum Membership