Camera Story Showcase

Camera Story Showcase is a contemporary photographic exhibition, featuring some of Australia's most exciting established and emerging artists.

The work on display will be sold to raise funds for the Camera Story International project.

Camera Story, founded by Sarah Landro and Jacqueline Warrick, is a locally based international organisation that uses the camera to empower those living in under-resourced and vulnerable areas and to bring together communities all over the world. Camera Story International is Camera Story's principal project and sees them take their specialised photographic and media/communications workshops to the children of South Asia.

A Camera Story workshop encourages participants in creative expression; visual literacy; responsible image making; vocational skills learning; compassionate online representation (of themselves and others); and positive online engagement. The workshops also engage children in learning activities which in turn encourages them to attend school for formal learning.

The teaching and sharing of these skills enables participants from all around the world to positively utilise the power of photography in order to build real relationships with one another.

The Camera Story International project will not only see kids participate in these specialised workshops but facilitate the sharing of art created from all over the world - kids from Bangladesh will see the lives of Aboriginal kids from the remote Kimberley, children from the high Indian Himalayas will see the lives of children from Perth, the kids from Perth sharing the lives of the Bangladeshis. The sharing of art - the sharing of stories, feelings, landscapes, lives - will be instigated for the purpose of international community building. To look within our own families, homes, friends and communities, and to recognise the similarities between ourselves and people from different places, different countries, different cultures - will enable kids from all over the world to bond through a common and compassionate human understanding.

In addition to this international art and culture exchange, young people will collaborate with each other by participating in an online platform which sees kids from different areas of the world paired together to create and narrate a photographic story - CS Pals. CS Pals, is a photographic pen pal project, allowing children to explore the world through the camera lens and teaching them to positively and responsibly engage with each other online.

Your donation will go towards facilitating the workshops in the itinerant workers community of Jaflong, Bangladesh and for the nomadic kids of the Puga Residential School in Ladakh, India; provide funds for the international art exchange; and help develop and grow our CS Pals program.

Ultimately, you will be helping hundreds of children to see the whole world.

Camera Story uses photography to empower those living in under resourced and vulnerable areas and connecting communities the world over.

We believe photography connects people and cultures. Learning to create positive imagery is essential for healthy communication and building genuine relationships. This has inspired us to devise artistic and educational photographic workshops that help navigate the contemporary landscape of image based communication, both online and in print.

Camera Story is a not for profit organisation based in Perth, Western Australia who exists for the purpose of promoting photography as an artistic, vocational, communication and educational tool. Our team run culture based photography workshops for schools, galleries, community groups and regional centres to teach manual camera skills, vocational photography skills, story-telling and image based media skills.