United in Nima: Bay Area and Ghanaian Youth Share Lives Through the Lens

An exhibition based on a unique photographic and cultural exchange between youth photographers from SF Camerawork’s First Exposures photography mentoring program and teens living in the notoriously poor Nima slum of Accra, Ghana who spent three weeks together last summer in Africa sharing their lives, culture, and art. This project was created as part of Adobe Youth Voices, a global youth media initiative. To learn more, please visit www.adobe.com/go/youthvoices.

January 8 – March 25, 2009
Opening Reception: January 8, 2009, 5 – 8 pm

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• Image credits, top to bottom: Sandra Asiamah, Florence Odame, Bethany Castro, Bethany Castro, Jontonnette Clark