The deadline for submissions for the fall OpenShutter show has passed, and photos have been selected. Guests to the OpenShutter show, which kicks off with an opening reception on Friday, November 13 from 6-8pm, are in for a real treat!  Please join us at Enigma Café!

In the meantime, a fellow GES member brought to our attention a CNN video clip, in which Paula Newton reports on images taken by children at a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon as part of Zakira’s ‘Lahza’ participatory photography project. Participatory photography allows people who would otherwise be the subjects of photos to create images that tell their own life stories. Founded by photojournalist Ramzi Haidar, Zakira, or “memory” in Arabic, is “devoted to the promotion of photography in Lebanon as an art form, a means of honest reporting and a professional skill.”

Under the guidance of Haidar, and with the help of just a disposable camera and their creative minds, 500 children were given the opportunity to create something truly unique.