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In June 2006, WKCD joined other U.S.-based youth media organizations in a multi-year international initiative called Adobe Youth Voices, sponsored by Adobe Systems Incorporated. In the first year, we teamed with youth and educators in New York City, San Francisco and San Jose, Seattle, London, Delhi, and Bangalore to produce a rich array of multimedia and book projects.
This year, WKCD is working with youth in Romania, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Beijing. SEE OUR GROWING 2007-2008 COLLECTION.
Below we share some of the final student products from 2006-2007, the first year.
“Side by Side” | Noida, India and San Francisco, CA
“Come Learn Some Hindi with Us” | Bangalore, New Delhi, and Noida, India
“Day in the Life” | Bangalore, India and London, England
“Kids’ Health Matters” | New York City, New York
“Child Rights”| New Delhi, India
“SAT Bronx” | Bronx, NY
“Radio Diaries” | Seattle, WA
“Aperture” | Seattle, WA
Our 2006-2007 AYV work also produced two books, published by WKCD’s nonprofit publishing arm, Next Generation Press. Read more about them—and order a copy.
India In A Time Of Globalization: A Photo Essay by Indian Youth
By youth from Bangalore, New Delhi, and Noida, India, edited by Barbara Cervone
SAT Bronx: Do You Know What Bronx Kids Know?
By students from Bronx Leadership Academy 2, BLA2 teachers Shannon O’Grady and Kristin Ferrales, with Kathleen Cushman
Side by Side | Noida, India and San Francisco, CA
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In cities around the world, globalization is producing contrasts at every turn: old versus new, Eastern versus Western, wealth versus poverty, local versus multinational.
As part of a yearlong study on the impact of globalization, students at the Noida Public Senior Secondary School in Noida, India (just outside Delhi) and at Build San Francisco Institute in San Francisco, California set out with digital cameras to capture these contrasts close up. The two audio slideshows below—each distinct—present some of the thousands of photographs the students took. The two PDF's present photo essays produced by students in both locations—about how globalization shows up in the work lives of adults around them, from an auto rickshaw driver to a corporate attorney in India and a hiphop artist to a Chinese language instructor in San Francisco.
Side by Side in Noida, India [2:14 min]
Sights and Sounds of San Francisco [3:37 min]
India Lives at a Time of Globalization [PDF, 936 ]
San Francisco Lives at a Time of Globalization [PDF, 872K]
Come Learn Some Hindi with Us | Bangalore, New Delhi, and Noida, India
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WKCD’s work with students in Bangalore, New Delhi, and Noida also led to the creation of a one-of-a-kind multimedia Hindi-English dictionary. Both the photos and the audio
were produced by the students. WKCD has created a flash version of the slideshow for anyone wanting to learn a bit of Hindi. (If you are using a dial-up connection, it will take awhile for each slide to load.)
Hindi-English Multimedia Dictionary
Day in the Life | Bangalore, India and London, England
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Capturing a “day in the life” of a person, group, or place has become a popular form of photojournalism. Through images and simple text, the photographer shows the details of daily life, both ordinary and extraordinary.
In this assignment, students at the Government High School-Cotton Pet in Bangalore, India and at Lilian Baylis Technology High School in London, England photographed the people and places within walking distance or a bus ride from their school. They took photos over a two-to-three day period (so it’s not strictly one day in the life). The students organized their photo essays into “chapters,” with each chapter presenting a very different view of the world—indeed, parallel worlds—around them. The soundtrack for the Bangalore slideshow includes street sounds and voices recorded that day.
A Day in the Life of Bangalore, India
Living London. Four Views. Many Stories
- Purely British: Westminster Square [2:04 min]
- Hard Working: Kennington Lane [1:59 min]
- Relaxed and Fun: Jubilee Garden [1:59 min]
- Busy and Tolerant: Clapham Junction [2:25 min]
Kids’ Health Matters | New York City, New York
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The poor nutritional habits of teens and their consequences have become headline news. But obesity and diabetes aren’t the only health threats facing kids. Asthma, often linked to air pollution, is the third-ranking cause of hospitalization among kids under 15. Domestic violence remains a silent stalker. And for children living in areas with high housing density, low socioeconomic status, and no safe play environments, getting hit by a car is a real concern—the injury rate among Black children is almost twice that of white.
In this assignment, seventh graders at the Lang Youth Medical Program in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan created four 60-second public service announcements about these pressing health concerns. Their PSA’s combine photographs with audio that they composed, performed, and edited.
What Does Environmental Racism Smell Like? [2.8 MB]
Water Works [5.1 MB]
Let's Play Ball [4.5 MB]
Stop the Cycle [3.5 MB]
Child Rights| New Delhi, India
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Of the 203 million children between the ages of 5 and 14 in India, a little over half are in school.
12.6 million Indian children are in full-time employment. The remaining 75 million do housework, work on family farms, work as domestic servants, or provide other forms of cheap labor.
For ten years, the Child Rights Information Centre (CRIC) of Bal Panchayat, a youth-to-youth development program in Delhi’s slums, has campaigned to support children’s rights and end exploitative child labor in Delhi and beyond. In this audio slideshow, the youth leaders of CRIC bring photographs, music, and facts to their cause.
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Last fall, fourteen students and two teachers at Bronx Leadership Academy II, a small public high school in New York City, launched a yearlong project to highlight their “insider knowledge” as urban youth—the ways they are “street smart” as well as “book smart.” Their inquiry, known as “SAT Bronx,” is resulting in a publication they are writing and designing themselves. WKCD’s Next Generation Press will publish the book in the fall of 2007.
As the students create their own take on standardized tests, they are sharing new knowledge about who knows what, and why it matters. As part of the book’s development, WKCD has produced audio clips of their discussions, which we post here.
Who Says Who’s Smart | What's American | American Families
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Susan Stamberg of National Public Radio writes: "A microphone is a magic wand, waved against silence. A recorder preserves the stories that microphones catch. And radio casts the stories to a broad audience—bringing us together in special ways. We need more young voices, young stories in our lives. Make your microphone magical. Break our silence."
Journalism students at Nathan Hale High School in Seattle have taken up Stamberg’s challenge. They are recording audio diaries and interviews and presenting them on the local public radio station, KBCS.FM. Here we present their first radio story “collage," plus a collection of individual pieces on topics ranging from depression to drag racing.
Youth Voices: First Edition | Bus Behavior | Depression | The Draft | Drag Racing | Pay Discrepancies | Snowboarders | Teen Stereotypes
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On a Saturday in April 2007, young photographers who are part of Youth in Focus, a youth photography program in Seattle, set out to take creative images in the communities around them. Here’s what they found, from a set of old tires to a stand of red tulips.
Aperture : Part I | Aperture: Part II
