Field of intervention :Training and insertion
Association : Clichés Urbains
Project :Photographic workshops and exhibition
Localisation :Paris, 19th arrondissement
Country :France
Supported Group :15 young people in 2009 and 13 in 2010, from an underprivileged district of Paris.
 
Objective

Teaching youths from sensitive areas to take photos to help them to see their neighbourhood in a new light.

Project holder

Elodie Galatoire, Development Manager, Accor Services (a company that left the Accor Group in June 2010).

Association

Clichés Urbains creates projects that will help people to ‘reclaim’ the urban landscape around them and see it in a new light through their own photographs.

Project

Clichés UrbainsClichés Urbains offers photographic workshops every Saturday afternoon, grouping 15 children from the Cité Mathis in the 19th arrondissement in Paris. Those workshops take place in two phases: the children have a course of an hour and half, and then apply pictures what they have learned by going out to photograph their district. At the end of the year their pictures are exhibited and offered to their neighbourhood’s inhabitants. That represents a unique opportunity for discovering one’s neighbourhood’s inhabitants through the eyes of the youngest!

The Accor Foundation backed this project in 2009 and 2010 by covering the cost of a computer and of developing and printing blown-up photo for an exhibition. In 2010, these young photographers took over new exhibition venues such as the 104 and one of the buildings in La Villette, besides the traditional venues, i.e. a local talent incubator, school and swimming pool in the 19th arrondissement of Paris.

support €2,000 in 2010 and €2,500 in 2009