Photographers for Humanity, shot with a camera not a gun.
A project to provide photography with a conscience. Pointing the camera lens on people, places and issues marginalised by society. In this project we apply the theory of internal rhythm to photography to create art with a social conscience. Capturing traumas on an individual, collective or macro-economic scale.
Through decolonising the artist’s lens and acting beyond voyeur to participant in the upheavals of injustice we are Photographers for Humanity.
The central component lies in the unity of humanity. However there are those in society who have been marginalised, criminalised or dehumanised. We seek to redress the balance of power, economic freedom and the give those who are in the shadows of societal hierarchy their right to be seen. A chance for stories of trauma to be shared and distilled in a single photograph. From inner turmoil of mental instability to the outward onslaught of racism, brutality and social exclusion.
A chance for stories of trauma to be shared and distilled in a single photograph.
Through the lens we can document the raw emotion on the streets unfiltered and in a de-saturated palette compared to the so called ‘perfection’ peddled by the mainstream cogs of the capitalistic engines of industrialised nations and also now the digital reality of social media. Through decolonising the artist’s lens and acting beyond voyeur to participant in the upheavals of injustice we are Photographers for Humanity.
For prints and use of images please contact: photographers4humanity@gmail.com
Conferences
Photographers for Humanity is featured in the Cambridge University CRAASH conference April 2021.
Social Power and Mental Health: Evolving Research Through Lived Experience
19 April 2021 – 23 April 2021
Some of our work is featured here: http://www.safelyheld.org/p/collective-dissent.html
Polymath Enterprise 