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Photographic Essays of World Youth
Photographic Essays of  World Youth


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Title: Photographic Essays of World Youth
Location: Global
Categories: Children’s Rights
Independent Media & Mass Media

Status: Completed
Timeline: November 24 03 to August 24 04

Description:
The photo above has Copyright by Casa de la Juventud, Paraguay

Anthropological photography has a release tradition, and is united to the activity of the journalistic photographers (photojournalism) who belong to agencies of investigation. They look for transmitting ways and styles of life and events through his images. This form of showing the multiple realities was originated around 1925 with the magazines illustrated for workers of the old Soviet Union, when placing two or more photographs near the text accompanying the correspondent description. Later, there was a summit of this tradition in the United States, with the creation, expansion and consolidation of the Life magazine. Nevertheless, the effect that was discovered when using the images was forceful:

Objectives:
Youth:
- To describe the ways of being youth in your city or country: Who are the youths? What labor or activities do they do? How do they use leisure? Cultural phenomena and rituals, as well as rites in celebrations, dances, etc. Relations of love and engagement, etc.
- To describe the role of youth in relation to the adult world.
- To differentiate the young styles of life from adults: What makes different from the young person of the adult? Relations between the young people and the adults.

BEING YOUTH IS NOT NECESSARILY LINKED WITH AGE.

Youth and the poverty:
- To describe the characteristics of poverty, vulnerability and/or marginalization in youth: Conditions of the place where they live. Conditions of its places. Access or search of services. Etc.

Needs:
Knowledge of photography, photo equipment, aptitude for field work.

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