Recorded: Thursday, July 23rd, at 7 pm ET

This week Peter Eversoll we will be talking with us about the transformative power of community photography and how to use our skills (at every level) in service to social change. For all of photography's possible pitfalls, Peter Eversoll has successfully, and respectfully, used the medium of photography to support movements for social change by making photography an active tool in the life of the community and its members. As a photographer and community artist, Peter has brought underrepresented issues to the forefront and contributed in profound ways to the lives of the people he teaches and photographs.

Together we will explore how to engage our community through photography, empower ourselves and others to visually narrate our story, and learn how to build trust and collaboration through a horizontal (rather than vertical) approach to collaborating, teaching, and learning.

Peter Eversoll is a photographer and visual artist working primarily on documentaries and projects using community-generated photography and video, both in the USA and abroad. For over a decade he was an advocate for farmworker education through his work with the Migrant Education Program and as co-founder of the non-profit NC FIELD. He has exhibited work throughout the USA and Latin America and is a member of the AztlanPhoto agency. He taught painting and contemporary art at La Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo in Mexico, FARO de Oriente in Mexico City and Photography at the Living Arts College in Raleigh, and has an MFA from La Academia de San Carlos, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. From 1998 to 2004 he cut his chops as a dairy farmer in Oaxaca, Mexico, and later earned an MFA in Visual Arts at la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He currently lives in Mexico City.

Photography and Community Making with Peter Eversoll

Recorded: Thursday, July 23rd, at 7 pm ET