WE PARTNER WITH
SCHOOLS
- Bring our unique curriculum to your school to support youth engagement and foster a deeper sense of belonging and ownership in the classroom or after-school space.
- Position young people as thought partners and shapers of their school climate and culture.
COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS
- Bring our program to their cohorts over the 6-week summer youth employment program period
- Make strategic connections with youth across the city
YOUTH MOVEMENT ORGANIZATIONS
- Build coalitions
- Support them in developing photo-based stories about their issues
- Foster a wider sense of belonging with other young people working toward our shared liberation
Through our unique approach, youth learn how to use photography as a tool for social change through a series of engaging workshops. Youth will work together to explore local issues that impact their lives, document those issues, and collectively imagine solutions.
This is what makes programs like Critical Exposure so valuable. It allows students to use an alternative to writing to express themselves. And not just express themselves about the things they’re learning in school but also express themselves about the things they see everyday, through their eyes. It allows students to document the issues they see with Metro. It allows students to document what they see as unfairness in the disciplinary systems in this school…[And] it allows them to document their rise. The overcoming of struggles…Then we have exhibits like this and people are able to see and understand our youth. These pictures are the eyes through which we see the souls of our youth. And that's why Critical Exposure is so valuable.
