Current Programs and Workshops

Doha Photo Camp
January 2012

Twenty-two high school students from Brazil and twenty-two students from Qatar will be paired on an educational exploration in Doha, Qatar, from January 19 to 29, 2012.  Sponsored by Qatar Foundation International, Photo Camp staff will teach digital storytelling during the 10-day exchange trip. The overarching theme of the trip is global competency — a capacity that will be nurtured and developed through intercultural communication and digital storytelling.

GP3 Annapolis
January – April 2012

VisionWorkshops worked with select students in the ESOL program (English for Speakers of Other Languages) at Annapolis High School.  In partnership with Anne Arundel Women Giving Together (AAWGT,) these 8 young writers and photographers are developing photo stories of the 6 local organizations that AAWGT supports annually. The photo stories will then culminate in a traveling exhibition beginning April 2012.

Haiti Photo Camp
February 2012

In partnership with Mercy Corps, long-time Photo Camp volunteer and National Geographic Vice President of Digital Media – Susan Poulton, will lead this workshop with photographer Lynn Johnson.

Smith Island Photo Camp – Disappearing Islands Exhibition
January – May 2012

In partnership with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, NGPC conducted it’s first ever all-female Photo Camp with 12 girls from the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women, in May of 2011. Four students from VisionWorkshops’ Crossing Borders program, Refugee Youth Project girls from Iraq and Nepal, accompanied the group as team leaders for the younger students. Their task was to document the disappearing islands of the Chesapeake Bay, culminating in a multimedia presentation for the people of Smith Island.  A traveling exhibition of this work has been presented at The Walters Art Museum, and will be featured at Stevenson University and The Creative Alliance in early 2012.

Crossing Borders Baltimore
2012 TBD

Baltimore Crossing Borders Program Manager Piper Watson will lead a photography and writing workshop in partnership with the Refugee Youth Project and the Baltimore Resettlement Center. Students in this program have resettled in the Baltimore area from Iraq, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Bhutan and Nepal.  Coming SOON!