PHOTOFORWARD GALLERY​

Click on the photos and links below to view a selection of work from our past and current programs.

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Our View, Our Story: 
Journeys Within Our Community
Siem Reap, Cambodia 2015

Through this workshop, Scholarship Students at Journeys Within Our Community  learned how to use digital cameras, compose photographs, edit images on the computer, and create pictures that tell a story. They also discussed the power that photographs and media have to shape the way we see our world. Through their images, our artists are sharing a glimpse into their lives, communities, and interests from their own perspectives and developing professional skills that they can use in their careers and pass on to the next generation.

Click here to visit the OUR VIEW, OUR STORY Gallery!

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Through Our Lens: 
Cambodian Women's Lives and Work
Women's Resource Center
Siem Reap, Cambodia 2013 - 2015

In collaboration with Women's Resource Center we are working to enhance the impact and reach of their current programs through the use photography and digital video. Through this project we hope to provide support and information to Cambodian women that enhances their ability to share their stories and the confidence to make informed decisions about their own lives. WRC's current programs include workshops and resources on parenting, women's health, and legal aid and reflect the concerns of Khmer women.

Click here to visit the THROUGH OUR LENS Gallery!

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Caregivers to Culture Keepers: 
Stories from Women in a Changing Laos
Traditional Arts & Ethnology Centre 
Museum Exhibition in Luang Prabang, Laos 2014 - 2016

Caregivers to Culture Keepers: Stories from Women in a Changing Laos, opened in October 2014 at the Traditional Arts and Ethnology Centre (TAEC), a private museum in Luang Prabang, Laos. The Culture Keepers exhibition was developed in partnership with PhotoForward and features photography, documentary video, oral histories, and cultural artifacts by 28 ethnic Lao women and girls from the Stitching Our Stories: Community Research Programme. It is also the first community curated museum exhibition in Laos.

Click here to visit the Culture Keepers Exhibition Online

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Stitching Our Stories: 
​Community Researchers Training
Traditional Arts & Ethnology Centre
Luang Prabang, Laos 2013-2014

An advanced media research training program, developed in partnership with the Traditional Arts and Ethnology Center provides women and girls with training in documentary photography, film production, and community interviews. Their subjects ranged from the ancient shamanic tradition to the disappearing craft of Hmong batik. Upon completion of the program, each trainee gained a paid position at the museum as a TAEC Community Researcher or a PhotoForward scholarship and TAEC Internship. Their ongoing work has become part of TAEC's permanent cultural archive and will be featured in an major exhibition at the museum in November 2014. 

Click here to view the SOS Community Research Gallery

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Stitching Our Stories: 
Community Photography Program
Traditional Arts & Ethnology Centre
Luang Prabang, Laos 2012-2014

The Stitching our Stories program, implemented in collaboration with the Traditional Arts and Ethnology Centre, combines photography and embroidery to reveal the lives, histories, and faces behind the painstaking textile art created by women in Laos. Participants, ranging in age from 9 to 35, are documenting the lives and work of women and girls in their communities and those photographs will be printed on fabric, which they will then embroider using traditional techniques and symbols.

Click here to view the Stitching Our Stories Gallery

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Our Point of View: Photo Stories
@My Library
Luang Prabang, Laos 2012-2013

What is a Photo Essay? PhotoForward is working in collaboration with My Library in Luang Prabang, Laos to provide curriculum development and teacher training to Library staff and photography educators. Together, we developed a new educational program that introduced young photographers to the concept of visual storytelling and engaged them in developing a photo narrative about a subject, or individual that has had an impact on their lives and their community.

Click here to view the Photo Stories gallery 

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The Photo Studio: Sanctuary Arts Program
Good Shepherd Services
New York City, U.S.A. 2005-2013

The Photo Studio program, launched in 2005 in collaboration with Good Shepherd Services New York, is an In-depth photography and creative arts program that integrates art therapy and community building activities for youth in long-term, short-term, and diagnostic foster care.

Click here to view The Photo Studio gallery

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Viewfinder: 
Media Leadership Program
@My Library
Luang Prabang, Laos 2010

Curriculum development and teacher training for advanced youth photographers at My Library in Luang Prabang, Laos. 

(2010 Media Leadership gallery under construction)