Past Events

A photography exhibit held in the New Orleans City Hall Rotunda showcasing the work of public school youth in a Critical Exposure program to document the conditions of their schools post-Hurricane Katrina.
 

The 21st Century School Fund, Critical Exposure and Healthy Schools Campaign created this photo exhibition in the Rotunda of the Russell Senate Office Building to showcase the mostly unseen reality of our nation’s school building conditions. The photos and stories in the exhibit were submitted by students, teachers and community members from California to Maine in response to a call for images and essays showing what’s great and what’s troubling about our nation’s public school buildings.
 

Held during FotoWeek DC, our annual silent auction fundraiser included donated images from professional photographers like Ed Kashi, Ami Vitale, and Pulitzer Prize winners Damon Winter and Patrick Farrell.

Our annual spring photography exhibit was held at the Edison Place Gallery in downtown DC. A five year retrospective, the exhibit featured over 100 photographs from our youth programs in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Austin, Albuquerque, and Washington, DC, covering youth issues from the "dropout crisis" and school facilities to teen pregnancy and youth homelessness. More than 300 supporters attended the exhibit reception, where former students and organizational partners spoke about their engagement in documentary photography and social change through Critical Exposure.

Sponsored by AED, this photography exhibit in downtown DC featured photographs from Critical Exposure students, as well as youth in the international Finding Voice, Visual Griots, and Photography on Fire programs.