empowering students through documentary photography
read the action feature // visit their web site
Shoot shoot shoot. I'm sorry. I don't know how I failed to post about this here. It's on our MySpace, and I sent out a Facebook update, and everything. But I skipped the cirronimbus blog! My bad. Forgive me.
When I first heard about Critical Exposure, I knew instantly that it was something I had to tell people about. I knew instantly that this fit exactly what I had always wanted The Overcast's Action features to be. I mean, as much as I love every part of what I feature on The Overcast, there are a few exceptional features that really remind me why I do this, why this matters, how The Overcast is something deeper to me than just feeding the materialism of the scene.
On a personal level, Critical Exposure really hits home with a lot of the things I care about. Education issues, a frame of equality and justice in our country, have always been extremely important to me. Education is so foundational to the success of our nation's individuals and communities, and it essentially determines a person's credibility and ability to participate in society. Critical Exposure empowers youth (which, being one, I mean...), utilizes the photography (something I personally love), and introduces students to community organizing (I myself having been involved in community organizing in the past) and political participation. Critical Exposure essentially prepares students to be active, responsible members of society, to use their experiences to further the common good.
This is art as power. This is what these creative tools are meant to be. This is the kind of movement that shapes worlds. Shape worlds.
Please, I encourage, no, implore you to visit criticalexposure.org. Sign up for their Photo of the Month club and see firsthand what these students experience and what they have to say about it. Get involved. Take action. Picture equality.
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