Mother’s Day was a couple of weekends ago, but this story caught my eye:

Photos Help Mothers Picture Life After Abuse - Desert Morning News

The heart of the story is the photographer, Sean, and his willingness to open up to a community of women who’ve had so much taken from them.  Having worked with people who’ve [...]

I received a tip from John at Photodoto.com about a person using Flickr to post missing person posters from the Nation Center for Missing & Exploited Children. Make sure to check out and be part of the discussion about it. Then later in the day I found a story about Lifetouch School Photography [...]

I’ve always been interested in historic photographs and how they capture moments in time. A while back Amy’s family sent around scans of old postcards from where her mother and uncles grew up, prompting a search for recent photos of the same places. In that vein, I ran across a student art project [...]

As you can tell, I’m a firm believer in kids getting involved in photography, but this story just lit my heart up:

Lincroft shop to display artwork of autistic kids

I can just imagine how proud these kids must be that people around the world are interested in their work and that they are important.  In a [...]

Yet another important example of kids using photography to articulate their experiences and feelings:

Photography camp students document Katrina’s effects on their city

I love that the instructors are being intentional about using the experience for healing and discussion. From the story:
The students also had homework: to make a self-portrait and to photograph “people and things [...]