WBC Willy Brandt Center Jerusalem
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WBC Willy Brandt Center Jerusalem |
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Photo Exhibition
Opening 17.05.2006
and other projects by ActiveStills & ActiveVision
The Exhibition shows the recent work of ActiveStills titled
"Victims of the Wisconsin Program", as well as a solidarity show
for the 1st of May in cooperation with the Workers Advice Center, including
works of 40 Israeli photographers.
Yet another part of the exhibition will be results of the photo workshop
ActiveVision. This project, supported by the Hotline for Migrant Workers
and with the collaboration of Minshar Art School was developed with
children of immigrant workers.
ActiveStills is a group of documentary photographers acting for social change, convinced in the power of photography as a vehicle of change through awareness.
ActiveVision empowers people to the use photography and visual media as a new way of telling their stories...
ActiveStills is a group of documentary photographers acting for social change, convinced in the power of photography as a vehicle of change through awareness. They seek to bring awareness to issues and situations that we believe create social injustice, through images that question the society in which we live in.
ActiveStills was integrated during the current year out of the belief that an obligation to take an action is necessary. Their first project was related to the situation of the Palestinian village of Bilin and the High Court of Justice's decision regarding the trace of the Separation Wall. This work was the fruit of a year of working in the village, and the choosen format was a street exhibition that was displayed in several public spaces in Tel Aviv.
Usually the group chose not to present their works in galleries, but at public spaces, like the walls of the city. By this, they create a communication with their surrounding and a wide public. The work of ActiveStills addresses the people on the street. They deliver mesages, that are not covered by the routine of the estabished media.
ActiveVision is born from the desire of bringing a new vision to visual media, the vision of the ones that have been traditionally the passive subject in the documentary act. Through workshops of photography and video ActiveVision empowers people in the use of visual media as a new way of telling their story, in order to provoke a positive change in their lives and in the society that they live.
The first project, supported by the Hotline for Migrant Workers and with the collaboration of Minshar Art School, was developed with Israeli teenagers, children of immigrant workers that the State of Israel is planning to deport. These photographers have been working the last three months in order to develop their own visual language in photography, exposing through it their identity with this country in an attempt to create awareness about their situation.
Exhibition on line: 
www.activestills.org
A project by "ActiveStills", 2006
www.willybrandtcenter.org/en/red/reviews06/wisconsin
09.09.2010, 23:09
Pictures from the
Exhibition