NORMAN — Middle-school students involved in “Girl Power PhotoVoice” spent months taking photographs that illustrate what promotes and inhibits health within their own communities.
Their photos are scheduled to be exhibited in a show called “Visions of Health” from 5 to 7 p.m. Aug. 26 in the J.J. Rhyne Community Room of the new Anne and Henry Zarrow Hall at the University of Oklahoma, 700 Elm Ave. The exhibit will be open to the public.
“PhotoVoice” is a collaboration between the Center for Children and Families Inc. and the OU’s Anne and Henry Zarrow School of Social Work.
“Supported by a grant from OU’s School of Medicine-Tulsa, CCFI staff worked hand-in-hand with OU staff to empower the young people of our community to express themselves with originality and enthusiasm,” said Katie Fitzgerald, executive director of the Center for Children and Families Inc.
“The girls walked through their lives, homes and streets behind the lens of a camera, and each week came together to view their photographs and voice what their pictures told them about their health and their community,” she said.
The program is meant to combine photography with grassroots social action.
“The project provides hands-on opportunities for the girls to practice such life skills as action research, photography, writing, marketing and activism,” said Christina Miller, assistant professor in the Zarrow School of Social Work. “It gives young people, whose voices often are ignored, direct experience with making a difference in their community.”
For more information, contact Miller at 325-8031 or crmiller@ou.edu, or visit www.ccfinorman.org/photovoice.
