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Daylight Magazine
Press Release - April 2006
Daylight Community Arts Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit organization that strives to establish community-based documentary partnerships in various locations throughout the world. These initiatives aim to provide photographic resources and education for the personal documentation of certain communities. It is our belief that the photographic process itself, along with the dissemination of imagery and text, can empower people within communities and affect long-lasting change. Daylight Magazine serves as the primary platform on which such documentary efforts are shared with a broad spectrum of viewers
In May of 2004, DCAF distributed cameras to civilians living in Baghdad and Fallujah. The resulting photographs appeared in last summer's issue of Daylight Magazine and expanded into a nationally touring exhibition. The exhibition 'Photographs by Iraqi Civilians', continues to tour various universities around the United States. The George Eastman House purchased a selection of the Iraqi Civilian photographs for their permanent collection. To see the exhibition online please check out: http://www.pixelpress.org/iraqi_civil/intro.html.
We invite you to have a look at these projects and to help us continue this programming by making a donation or, better yet, spearheading a project of your own. Corresponding with Issue #4, Daylight will launch a new website that will host an online magazine, an interactive forum, and portfolios from partner projects that have joined our organization. While we will continue to print one to two issues per year, our revamped website will serve as the nexus of Daylight Community Arts Foundation. By embracing the accessibility and emerging dominance of the internet we hope to engage with our readers and further the dialogue of visual communication and understanding, while saving on printing costs.
ISSUE 4 (Spring 2006)
One year in the making, this issue focuses on Israel/Palestine and features a great selection of portfolios from photographers Simon Norfolk, Luc Delahaye, Ori Gersht and many more! The second half of the publication presents a number of self-representative photographic projects currently taking place around the world. These projects were made possible by Daylight Community Arts Foundation and our amazing Project Coordinators who are helping us share the power of photography with a number of diverse communities.
ISSUE 3 (Autumn 2004)
Issue 3: Joel Sternfeld, David Maisel, Edgar Martins, Jeff Whetstone, and a Daylight project examining biodiesel production. This edition explores the relationship of human beings and the environment. From one of the world's last sustenance whaling communities to aerial photographs of Los Angeles' urban sprawl, this publication examines a wide range of perspectives on the concept of environmental sustainability.
ISSUE 2 (Summer 2004)
This issue of Daylight presents the work of photographers who have spent time in Iraq working to present their audience with an individual perspective of the region. Susan Meiselas' images of the Kurdish mass graves in southern Iraq came to light ten years ago when the burial sites were exposed to the world. Sean Hemmerle's photographs concentrate on landscapes of war-damaged Baghdad. What is the human story of Iraq? What would Iraqi citizens choose to show us? Our organization distributed disposable cameras to Iraqi civilians with the hopes of offering individuals an opportunity to share imagery of their lives with a foreign audience.
ISSUE 1 (Spring 2004)
Alec Soth's photographic narrative follows his journey along the Mississippi river; each image offering insight into the timeless traditions and ever-changing cultural and physical landscapes of the Mississippi. Jen Szymaszek brings us the faces and words of surviving family members of forgotten World Trade Center employees. Tom Rankin's photographs explore the relationship of man and wilderness as represented through the lives and surroundings of several individuals living in the Mississippi Delta. Sara Gomez lived and worked as a resident of Ahmedabad in India. Her photographs and words from this experience bring us breathtakingly delicate imagery of the children with whom she worked.
Daylight is currently looking for Street Team recruits in the US and UK. If you would like to take part in guerilla media tactics, advertising blitzes, and public art initiatives, please contact at info@daylightmagazine.org for information on receiving our indy media start up kit.
Khaleeda Kabani, UK Coordinator
P.O Box 51379
LONDON N1 2GP UK
khaleeda@daylightmagazine.org
07730955722
