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Akwasasne, USA - Darkroom construction

One of the first Daylight initiatives, the darkroom construction at Akwasasne has recently been completed, thanks to the generosity of our donors. Approximately eight thousand Mohawk Indians live on the Akwasasne Reservation, which straddles the St. Lawrence River on the border of the United States and Canada. One of the first Daylight initiatives, the darkroom construction at Akwasasne has recently been completed, thanks to the generosity of our donors.

Baghdad, Iraq - Camera distribution

Sadiq Mahdy (smoking) moved to Baghdad to join relatives after the first war in Iraq. He is currently jobless and shown here with his family. His daughter was named Americas the day U.S. troops entered Baghdad.

Since April of 2004, Daylight has been compiling photographs taken by Iraqi civilians in Baghdad and Falluja. This important photo-historical record represents a unique, and human, perspective on the war in Iraq. The photographs are currently touring the United States in a traveling exhibition curated by Pixel Press and made possible by funding from the Open Society Institute. read more »

Crossroads School, Harlem, USA - Photography workshops

During the 2005 school year Daylight Magazine led a photography course with 6th, 7th and 8th graders of Crossroads School in New York City. The class consisted of alternating critique and activity days. The course was a success and we are making arrangements to construct a fully operational darkroom at the school.

Foto Baryo, Batangas, Philippines - Community darkroom

Daylight Community Arts Foundation would like to welcome Foto Baryo, an inspiring community darkroom that recently opened in the Philippines. “Foto Baryo” is a community darkroom recently established in the small town of Batangas, Philippines. After many years of collecting donated darkroom equipment and photography materials, Fernando Afable established this center in his hometown to share his passion for photography with Filipinos through community programs.

International Street Team

The Daylight Magazine Street Team is looking for those interested in harnessing and cultivating a synergy among international image-makers and image-consumers in an effort to empower the public to use images; not simply be subjected to them.

For years, Daylight Magazine has been dedicated to promoting the use of photography as a tool for affecting positive social change. The Daylight Magazine Street Team, a collaborative open-source media initiative, is serving to further this cause. By means of public displays of socially conscious photography and projects aimed at reaching out to the public, our Street Team seeks to raise awareness and promote the use of the positive imagery to cultivate mutual ideas of cross-cultural understanding.
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La Boquilla, Colombia - Camera distribution/exhibition

La Boquilla is a fishing village outside of the growing resort town of Cartegena, Colombia. The community, a former slave colony that flourished for over 150 years, is facing a rapid economic decline due to a variety of political and environmental forces. In the winter of 2005, the photographers Roger Triana and Lorena Turner went to La Boquilla for the first time.

Laos P.D.R. - Camera distribution/workshops

In this ongoing participatory photography project, Vincent Cianni has been distributing cameras to the novices and monks of Wat Aham, one of the more than twenty temples in the Laotian town of Luang Probang. This engaging project allows us to see the world from the eyes of the monastic community.

Mehdiganj, India - Camera distribution

Daylight Community Arts Foundation is proud to introduce a new program in Mehdiganj, India where villagers in a farming community have come together to protest Coca Cola's exploitation of their most precious resource, water.

New Orleans, USA - Camera distribution

Shortly after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, D.C.A.F. distributed disposable cameras throughout the upper ninth ward the week after it re-opened. Informal photography workshops were led by Daylight staff with residents whose homes, families, jobs and lives have been drastically altered by the hurricane. The images from this initiative tell the real and tragic story of the hardships of post-Katrina life.

Nueva Alianza, Guatemala - Biodiesel workshops

In Daylight Magazine Issue #3 (Sustainability), we featured a selection of photographs taken by alternative fuel producing communities around the United States. This Daylight initiative has since spread around the world to include documentation of alternative fuel production in Papua New Guinea and Colombia. Now, in this project update, Matthew Rudolf relates his exciting work with a community in Guatemala.

Nyeri, Kenya - Camera distribution/workshops

The Huruma Children's Home is an orphanage in Nyeri, Kenya, with 52 children and adults aged 9-22 who are victims of poverty, abuse, and disability. The orphanage is a unique community in which the children have taken up equal responsibility, along with the staff, in taking care of each other. Most community members are not aware that the Home also takes care of adults with physical and mental disabilities.

West Bank, Palestinian territories - Camera distribution

Daylight Magazine recently sent a number of disposable cameras to people living in Israel and Palestine. Leena Dallasheh's words are below: