Tag: Photography

  • City Heights Photographers Compete in ‘App Wars’

    By Christina Chomut, The AjA Project Haga click aquí para leerlo la en Español App Wars – a competition for creative Hipstamatic and Instagram photographers – opened their most recent contest to The AjA Project’s Youth Advisory Council for an opportunity to showcase student entries. Photo Credit: Photo Credit: Christina Chomut The November event at…

  • Bullying Through the Eyes of Monroe Clark Middle School Students

    Students at Monroe Clark Middle School tracked bullying incidents in and around their school this spring. The yellow icons mark where an event occurred. Click on the icons for photos and captions. Click here to enlarge the map. | Credit: Susan Murphy By Susan Murphy Students at Monroe Clark Middle School in City Heights spent…

  • He Loves His Country, and His Cars

    [oqeygallery id=6] Photo credit: Sam Hodgson Voiceofsandiego.org’s Sam Hodgson has been surveying El Cajon Boulevard with his camera this year for a photo series called “Tales From the Boulevard.” Today he featured Dave Meyer, who has been “doing surgery on American engines for close to five decades.” His service garage on the border of Corridor…

  • Youth Photographers Explore New Roots

    This summer, students in The AjA Project’s photography workshops considered City Heights’ relationship with food–where residents get it, whether it’s healthy and how it compares to the food refugees ate previously. They followed their camera lenses to the New Roots Community Farm, where refugees grow their own food. The farm helps growers reconnect with the…

  • Photo Feature: Your Neighbor, the Refugee, Celebrated

    Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson By Sam Hodgson I had the honor of presenting a photo essay at the Museum of Photographic Arts to help commemorate World Refugee Day Sunday. I presented images from the project we completed last year about Har Sin, a refugee from Burma who is deaf and learning formal communication for the…