Photojournalism From A Student’s Eye

A quick plug for one of my good friends, Chicago-based photojournalist Rene Edde. Giving a voice to the voiceless is a goal that many journalists aspire to, and Rene is doing just that with her work through Americorps on teenmomshoutout.org.

According to the site, TeenMomShoutOut is “a safe space for pregnant and parenting teens and their supporters to talk about issues that affect their community.” Rene set up a Wordpress MU blog, aggregating the latest posts from individual blogs on the main page. The site gives pregnant teens and teen mothers a place to express themselves and use writing/blogging as a cathartic exercise. Already there have been posts about Charisse preparing a child for the realities of life, Blake wanting more for her child than she currently has for herself, Tiffany being following by a suspicious man and Verenice write about the importance of family in her life.

I am excited to see what other stories (and forms of storytelling) come out of this project.

It seems as though the version of the Strawberry Swing video I embedded has been taken down. You can view it on the official Coldplay web site instead.

I was just talking with my friend and classmate Shaminder Dulai today and we realized that, now that we are all spread out across the country, we sometimes find ourselves not quite as motivated and inspired as we were when we had each other to rely on. And so, even though he is in San Antonio and I am in LA, here is a bit of inspiration that I hope can help motivate us both.

Found this on the A Photo Editor blog and thought it was worth sharing.