About the project
Photography has always been a tool to denounce society, to capture the essence of humanity, to show us another side of our world that we were not able to see before. Photography is time condensed in an image; photography is everything that it exists in a frame. Numerous Pulitzer photography winners capture the reality of our society with their cameras, and move us to be better people. With this project, we want to bring attention to migrants' issues, minorities and other marginalized groups and present photography as a powerful tool to raise awareness of troubling social issues and needs of European society. One of the noble purpose we can use photography is to help others, especially
marginalized groups of society and young people with fewer opportunities.Through enhancing digital skills, learning about photojournalism and photography participants will interview and make photo stories of marginalized groups in Lithuania. We will put our focus on refugees (migrants), LGBTIQ+ community, and youth facing discrimination because of gender, ethnicity, religion, and (ex)offenders, (ex)drug or alcohol abusers.Participants will also make a photo exhibition which will be held at the end of mobility in Vilnius, and online promotion of the photo exhibition in all partner countries. In this way they will learn advanced digital skills and in the same time enhance civic and social competence, actively involved in their local communities, practice their citizenship competences and take action to change something in local community.
Objective of the project “Life in a frame“ are:
- Promotion of solidarity, empathy and social inclusion for refugees and other marginalized groups of European community
- Contribution to involvement of refugees and other marginalized groups into local and European community
- Raising young people’s social and civic competence by including them in local community and resolving latest European social issues
- Learning digital media skills through advanced use of photography and photo equipment
- Learning photojournalism