youth photography project

YOUTH PHOTO PROJECT (YPP) IS A YOUNG NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION THAT WAS CREATED TO GIVE UNDER PRIVILEGED YOUTH THE CHANCE TO EXPERIENCE PHOTOGRAPHY AND ALLOW THEM TO LOOK AT THEIR WORLD FROM A NEW POINT OF VIEW.

OUR MISSION AT YOUTH PHOTO PROJECT IS TO GIVE UNDER PRIVILEGED YOUTH THE CHANCE TO EXPERIENCE THE POWER OF PHOTOGRAPHY. WE AT YPP ARE COMMITTED TO TEACHING DISADVANTAGED YOUTH A NEW VOICE OF EXPRESSION THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHY AS WELL AS CREATING AWARENESS FOR THEIR CAUSE.

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OUR GROUP MISSION

COVENANT HOUSE GEORGIA

PROJECTS 08-09

EXPENSES AND DONATIONS

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TO INTRODUCE PARTICIPANTS TO THE POWER OF THE PHOTOGRAPHIC MEDIUM. TO PROVIDE A BASIC EDUCATION ON CAMERA OPERATION AND COMPOSITION. TO ORGANIZE PHOTOGRAPHY SHOWS ALLOWING PARTICIPANTS TO DISPLAY THEIR HARD WORK. TO USE THE GALLERY SHOWS AS A METHOD TO RAISE AWARENESS AND FUNDS FOR THE ORGANIZATIONS WE WORK WITH.

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MISSION AND GOALS

OUR PRIMARY GOALS

PROJECTS 08-09

EXPENSES AND DONATIONS

OUR FUTURE

CLICK WAS OUR FIRST GALLERY SHOW THAT DISPLAYED THE WORK OF THE YOUTH OF COVENANT HOUSE GEORGIA, WHOM WE WORKED WITH IN DECEMBER OF 2008.

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YPP IS MORE THAN SIMPLY CREATING AND DISPLAYING IMAGES, IT IS A VEHICLE FOR BRINGING AWARENESS TO COVENANT HOUSE, WHICH PROVIDES MUCH NEEDED ASSISTANCE AND SERVICES TO HOMELESS YOUTH. The Click show served as a great opportunity for our project participants to display their work, but just as important it allowed visitors to the show to interact with members of Covenant House and learn more about their cause.

The event in turn served as a fundraiser and all proceeds generated at the show were donated by us to Covenant House Georgia to help further their good work.

Donations are continuing to generate due to the nature of our project. The total amount (once all twenty photographs are sold) of money the first project can

raise in print sales is $2000. Separate donations are also created through awareness brought to Covenant House by our project.

Although hard to predict, these

donationations are expected to increase exponentially as the project progresses.

THE FUTURE OF YPP We will continue our non-profit photo project in order to help generate funds for underprivileged homeless youth.

In late 2009 we plan to expand our project to include additional Covenant House's such as the New Orleans and Ft. Lauderdale chapters.

Ultimately we would like to implement our project as a permanent Covenant House sponsored event.

Our photo projects will run exactly like our first and ultimately we would u hold a similar h gallery show to g benefi t each city's b Covenant House.

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The ongoing project between three SCADAtlanta colleagues,Frazer Spowart and Jason Riffe met as graduate photography students in 2007. The third member joined in Spring of 2008 and is Jessica Little, a graduate student in graphic design. Youth Photography Project was created between them as a way to both increase their experience teaching the technical and digital aspects of photography as well as to connect with their community.