Outside the Lens youth produced a video encouraging other youth to make their communities healthier and more active places to live.
The Becky’s House ® Domestic Violence Program supports the individual’s journey from victim to survivor to achiever. The program includes a 30-day domestic violence emergency shelter and two 18-month transitional living programs for victims of domestic violence and their families. The following interviews and poems were created by teens at Becky’s House through the Outside the Lens program.
Iraqi Teens: Zoomed In!
Iraqi Teenagers from the Iraqi Youth Leaders Exchange Program created a photovoice project based on media, self-expression and leadership. The teens, all from different areas of Iraq, worked in collaboration with U.S. Teens from the exchange program and Outside the Lens’s high school Youth Council.
“Here I Am” tells the story of individuals in society. Through and 8-session poetry, photography and video class, Outside the Lens worked with teens from the YWCA’s Cortez Hill Family Center, who had a special opportunity to explore where they are from, who they are now and what are their hopes and dreams for the future.
Editing, Production, Assistance and Education by: Cassandra Weber, Matthew Glasser and Rachel Lebowitz
The Lead Project created a PSA for Leadership during the one-week Youth Council Leadership Institute at Outside the Lens. The Institute brings together high school students from across San Diego County and empowers them to use photography, video and multimedia to build leadership skills and create change within themselves, their community and the world.
Outside the Lens students at Monarch School premiere their student-made documentary about keeping it real.
Keep it Reel is a video project written, filmed and edited by Outside the Lens students from Monarch School in San Diego. Monarch is a unique school for homeless and at-risk youth. Outside the Lens is a 501(c)3 non-profit that empowers youth to use the power of photography to create change within themselves, their community and their world.
Edited by: Tommy Rosprim
Audio Assistance by: Matthew Glasser
Poems and footage by: Outside the Lens youth
Outside the Lens at Walk the Watershed 2011
Outside the Lens partnered with San Diego Coastkeeper for their Walk the Watershed event - Engaging youth in the environment and water conservation through photography!
Video By: Rachel Lebowitz, Outside the Lens
Middle School Students Talk Outside the Lens
Outside the Lens catches up with Middle School students. Check out what photography means to them in this short and sweet video spot!
Filmed By: Matthew Glasser, OTL Volunteer
Editing By: Tommy Rosprim, OTL Volunteer
Picture it Healthy!
Check out the final movie made by the 5th and 6th graders at Hilltop Drive Elementary School in Chula Vista, CA. The students spent 8 weeks learning about the basics of photography and the components of living a healthy and active lifestyle. The class went on one field trip to Albertson’s grocery store, counted how many steps it took to walk there using pedometers, and took lots of photographs! The session wrapped up by writing letters to the Chula Vista mayor, Cheryl Cox, specifying ways to make our community a healthier place to live.
Video by: Rachel Lebowitz, Outside the Lens
