PHOTO DIARY FOR YOUNG OFFENDERS
One-day Workshops  (3 hours sessions or longer by arrangement)
2008: dates available for London Young Offending Teams
London boroughs
£50 per hour

BENEFITS

In remedial terms, the ability for clients to make and share positive images of themselves during their prison or community sentence, benefits contact with family members and the community. Both during and after community, exhibitng the photographs would also promote positive client integrity. Artistic and creative style can be recognised and encouraged, and develop the therapeutic aspect of the photo diary to a deeper level. The creative freedom that photography promotes is of real value to the limited experience of physical freedom and choice enjoyed in the prison environment, and the restructuring of personal value systems that your clients need to examine back in the community.

Photography and picture making are important and popular practical skills to develop in any environment. Young offenders would benefit from many practical applications of photography, and any people interested in taking a further interest further could investigate areas of photography for work. such as retail camera sales, photo image stock libraries and digital photo imaging labs and retouching.

An obvious point of public relations is that promoting positive photographic images by young offenders within the community with exhibitions, talks and lectures can only benefit the YOP service within the community, as well as giving a sense of real achievement to particpants who commit to developing personal photo projects.

My main area of interest in promoting the photography of young offenders is to enhance a sense of their personal responsibility and self respect, and I seek to expand these workshops by training individual young people to asssist and ultimately lead series of these classes themselves within the London community, in other Youth Offending Centres as well as prisons.

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© James Bartholomew 2008       
mobile phone: 07973 214 411   
email: james@jamesbartholomew.com