Building Community Through Self-Awareness and Self-Expression
Building Community Through Self-Awareness and Self-Expression
This chapter presents the author's account of creating the From Where I'm Standing photo-documentary workshop in 1995. Since 2005, she has been providing in-depth photography and writing workshops at the Watts Towers Arts Center to people in the community aged ten through sixty-nine. The objective of the workshop is the creation of an in-depth photo-documentary by and about the Watts community, and in the process build community. People of all ages participate in discussions about their photographs and writing, and experience the dynamic and vital relationship between the individual (artist) and the community (society) at large. The chapter concludes by identifying the resonances between the workshop, the Arts Center, and Simon Rodia's Watts Towers.
Keywords: photo-documentary workshops, Los Angeles, documentaries, Simon Rodia, Watts Towers, Watts Towers Arts Center
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