PhotoVoice: Visions of Health

What happens when you take eleven of Norman's middle school girls, teach them photography, ask them about 'health,' and then give them free rein to shoot?

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- You're Invited! -

Girl Power PhotoVoice Project

On May 6, 2011, nearly a dozen middle school girls served by the Center’s Neighborhood Centers program shuffled into the cafeteria at Irving Middle School to begin the Girl Power PhotoVoice Project. A project in collaboration with the University of Oklahoma's Anne and Henry Zarrow School of Social Work and the Center for Children and Families, gave the girls cameras and a mission to document their lives and their community’s health over the next six weeks.

PhotoVoice allows young people to express themselves with originality and enthusiasm. The girls walked through their lives, homes and streets behind the lens of a camera and each week they came together, viewed their photographs and voiced what their photographs exposed about their health and their community.

The project provided hands-on opportunities for the girls to practice life skills such as action research, photography, writing, marketing, and activism. It gives young people, whose voices are often ignored, a hands-on experience with making a difference in their community.

With the Girl Power PhotoVoice project, the girls hope to provide their communities with a valuable perspective on its problems and resources, both healthy and unhealthy. Their photographs and narratives may open the eyes of adults to problems and resources they see every day but tend to ignore.

More information about PhotoVoice»

The University of Oklahoma
Zarrow Hall Community Room

700 Elm Ave. |  Norman, OK
August 26, 2011, 5-8 p.m.*

*Forum/Ethics Panel 7-8 p.m.Continuing Education Units available.

Click here for more information on the CEU’s and a schedule of events for the evening.


Studio 360
109 N. Crawford |  Norman, OK
September, 9 2011, 6-10 p.m. 
In Conjunction with the Norman Arts Council's 2nd Friday Art Circuit.

Admission is free, donations accepted. Refreshments will be provided.

For more information about PhotoVoice Project or Exhibit please contact Stacy Hawthorne at shawthorne@ccfinorman.org or call (405) 364-1420.