Open Democracy (London, UK), June 20, 2005
Summary:
Moving Lives is one of PhotoVoices’s most recent programmes. It was screened on 19 June in London at the Celebrating Sanctuary Festival, the annual free festival celebrating the art of London’s refugee communities. PhotoVoices is an international charity based in London.
Moving Lives, a photography and digital-storytelling project, aims to help newly arrived refugees settle in the UK. The young people were trained in digital photography, storytelling and post-production skills and made the digital stories in April 2005. The stories are the results of the first of five workshops to take place during 2005.
Subjects Covered: diversity training, education