Thank you for making our first annual Jouk Li Jou Kan Foto such a success!
Zanmi Lakay has successfully completed our first annual Jouk Li Jouk Kan Foto with an amazing team of young Haitian photojournalists and outstanding volunteer pros. We were inspired by the Haitian saying Jouk Li Jou that means: we'll never stop until the day is over, working hard to see a better life, and we'll keep fighting until the end.
Every morning during Kan Foto our students chanted Jouk Li Jou! Jouk Li Jou! for inspiration. When the whole team made our group shot, we all chanted Jouk Li Jou! Jouk Li Jou! At odd hours throughout the days and with raised fists, ...
Zanmi Lakay’s Premier Jouk Li Jou Kan Foto – our first annual Photo Camp for Children in Haiti
For the first time, student photographers from Cité Soleil will meet up with students in Jacmel to spend 10 days shooting photo stories, editing, and processing their digital images with the help of volunteer professional photojournalists. The students will then print and hang their photos for an exhibition at the Fosaj Gallery, 5-7 Rue St. Ann, Jacmel. The month long show opens with a reception on Friday July 29, 2011.
This unprecedented teaching and exhibit event, called Jouk Li Jou Kan Foto will ...
Assignment: Kanaval 2011 – covered by 6 ACFFC student photojournalists
Our Photography Workshops continued on our most recent trip to Haiti in February and March this year as we shared actual exhibits with our classes in Jacmel and Cité Soleil. We wanted our students to experience their photographs up on walls being seen and shared just as they had been in four exhibits in the U.S. last year. We also had group slideshows, certificates were given to each student in Cité Soleil along with bags of food, they told us how much they love it all and want better equipment, and volunteers came to speak with the students! We also introduced them to ...
Digital Point and Shoot Camera Drive for Kids in Haiti
Zanmi Lakay needs 50 working digital point and shoot cameras -or better- for our First Annual "Jouk Li Jou Kan Foto" in July. This 10-day Photo Camp for Haitian children will be much bigger than our usual Photography Workshops culminating with an opening reception Friday July 29 at Fosaj in Jacmel, and the exhibit will be up for a month. We are still looking for volunteers,equipment, and additional funding. Contact me if you're interested!
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Zanmi Lakay Exhibit in San Francisco – Reception: Thursday, November 4th at 6pm
Upcoming Exhibition - "Haiti: In the Spirit of Zanmi Lakay"
Opening Night: November 4, 2010 6 - 9 PM
PhotoNight / Artist's Talk: 7 PM
The San Francisco Exposure Gallery presents a new exhibit entitled, Haiti: In the Spirit of Zanmi Lakay featuring photography by The Zanmi Lakay Haiti Street Children’s Photography Workshops and a selection from the project The Legacy of Lafanmi Selavi by Zanmi Lakay co-founder Jennifer Cheek Pantaléon.
For more information: www.exposuregallery.org
Art Creation Foundation for Children (ACFFC)
We spent much of our time working in Jacmel with artists, with young adults in our programs, but mostly with the 60-80 children of Art Creation Foundation for Children (ACFFC). Because there was no school happening after the earthquake, we knew a top priority was to create activities for the kids, and we made a lot of plans. The children were all busy making art, mostly paper maché birds at that time. We got about half of them started on a serious digital Photography Workshop giving out eight assignments while sharing cameras, but each student was able to do some reshoo...
2009 Cite Soleil Photography Workshop
Zanmi Lakay collaborated with Jean Ristil and his organization Fondasyon Kolezepol in Cite Soleil with a Photography Workshop for 25 children in May and June 2009. Students were taught the basics of photography including composition, light, how to approach people, and obtaining access. We shared many examples of photography, and Jean inspired the kids with a serious dose of spirited challenge...and they were up to the task. Zanmi Lakay brought donations for the group and provided treats for the last day fete, and were also generously entertained with beautiful songs and ...
2009 ACFFC Digital Photography Workshop
In May and June 2009 Zanmi Lakay had our third Photography Workshop with 30 talented children at ACFFC, and Zanmi Lakay's very first digital photography workshop in Haiti! It was exciting and crazy and chaotic and inspiring and totally worth every second! It was also a community effort from the camera collecting, computer guruing, editing, and translating, to the popcorn making and organizing of the final slideshow and family party and the end of the week. The children's work will be on the website soon.