Lewis Hine Documentary Fellows Program

+ Rahi and collaborators at Graham Windham were also accepted into the BRIC Media Share grant program, through which Brooklyn grassroots organizations get access to training, mentorship and equipment to help tell their stories. Go team!

Media Share Media Share The New York Emmy-winning BRIC Media Share program helps Brooklyn-based and Brooklyn-affiliated nonprofits tell their unique story with an in-kind grant valued at $6K-$10K. Get free training, mentorship, and access to equipment. 2018 NEW YORK EMMY WINNER WATCH BRIC MEDIA SHARE'S GRANTEE....

So proud to announce that 2017-2018 Hine Fellow Rahi was one of eight artists and organizers of color to be named a 2018 Firelight Media Impact Producer Fellow!

2018 Impact Fellows

"How do we create safe spaces for children and youth to share their stories as openly as they want to? How can we embody a tone that is not trying to censor and limit their thoughts, and makes them feel they have agency? How can these children use art as a tool for resistance? How can they use storytelling as medium for healing for themselves, their communities, and their ancestors?" - 2017-2018 Fellow Rahima Rahi reflects on process, listening, and the power of youth voices in her collaborations with Graham Windham's Manhattanville Cornerstone Community Center:

Finding Magic - Lewis Hine Fellowship Blog by Rahima Rahi Magic happens when you just leave the camera rolling after an interview. In my work at the...

Listen: 2015-2016 Hine Fellow Nick Pilarski's amazing collaboration with the Brownsville Community Justice Center and Brownsville youth covered on WNYC Radio!

Brownsville: No Label Necessary Residents have a lot to say about how to celebrate their neighborhood and improve it, and it often conflicts with the hardened view outsiders have of their central Brooklyn community.

Photographs from the opening night of Mother, Me-- a community photography exhibit featuring portraits of young mothers at Zoe's Place, who have been under the guidance of Center for Documentary Studies Lewis Hine Documentary Fellows Program Fellow Jennifer Stratton (Jenn Jacklin).

It was truly a special evening filled with emotion, storytelling, live music, photography, conversation and community. All donations from the event supported Zoe's Place--a program of Children's Aid and Family Services providing safe housing and services for pregnant teens, teenage mothers, and their children.

Mother, Me is a participative storytelling project using photography, thread and writing to explore personal journeys, counter narratives, and ideas of motherhood. The exhibition will be on view to the public at the Cottage Place Gallery through November!

Event photography by Nicolas Scott

Introducing the 2017-2018 Lewis Hine Documentary Fellows!

Introducing the 2017-2018 Lewis Hine Documentary Fellows | Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University