ABOUT EXPOSURE EXPOSURE is dedicated to the advancement of human rights through the facilitation, distribution, and instruction of photojournalism and documentary studies.
The Center's goals include: facilitating the education of student photojournalists and the development of their projects through workshops, artist-in-residence programs, internships, and consultations with professionals; providing a forum for dialogue among professional photographers, journalists, publishers, and students through lectures and forums on contemporary issues; creating a web-based documentary archive, with participating photographers, which can be accessed by organizations that would use the work to pursue the advancement of human rights issues; establishing a fund to help student photojournalists implement projects; raising awareness of the role of documentary studies in advancing human rights; and partnering with world-class photo agencies, publishers, magazines, and corporations to help the center achieve these goals. I am writing in enthusiastic support for the concept of our photojournalism project. It is unprecedented and will create a space for a kind of conscientious documentary photography that is long overdue; A place to energize us and to allow us to reflect on the value of all of our experiences. I believe that it will help us all to understand photography as a valuable tool that can help us learn how to make sense of the violence, the destruction, the chaos of this world. And it will help to create an incredibly important historical legacy, providing meaning in our lives. Most importantly, it can help to create a public awareness integral to the process of change.
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