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Black Belt 100 Lenses co-director Whitney Green places name tags underneath some of the photographs exhibited at Bryan W. Whitfield Memorial Hospital. The exhibition reception will be held Sunday, July 12, at 1:30 p.m.
'Black Belt 100 Lenses' coming to BWWMH
Published Friday, July 3, 2009
DEMOPOLIS — Bryan W. Whitfield Memorial Hospital’s newest art exhibit will feature young photographers from five counties across Alabama’s Black Belt.
The sponsoring program, called “Black Belt 100 Lenses,” began two years ago as a partnership between the Center for Community-Based Partnerships at the University of Alabama and the Black Belt Community Foundation.
“Black Belt 100 Lenses is a tool to get students to think about taking ownership of their communities,” said program co-director Elliott Knight. “It gives them an opportunity to have a voice about things that are important to them.”
Ninety photographs, equivalent to one photograph from each participant over the last two years, will be displayed in the hospital’s main hallway for the next three months.
Some 16 to 20 students from each county are chosen to participate in Black Belt 100 Lenses by advisory committees comprised of teachers, educators and community leaders of that county.
Students apply by creating a submission of prose, poetry, drawing, photography or any form of art with the purpose of finishing the statement, “The Black Belt is...” Once the participants are selected, Black Belt 100 Lenses holds a training session for the students and lends them a camera and two rolls of film. Students then meet later to observe and discuss the photographs they have taken.
“As we work with the students, I feel like, hopefully, we are instilling community pride in them for the Black Belt,” said program co-director Whitney Green. “The overall goal of the Black Belt Community Foundation is to improve the quality of life in the Black Belt.”
There are plans to extend the program to students in the other seven Black Belt counties as well, including Marengo County.
The complete collection of photographs taken by the students of Black Belt 100 Lenses can be found at www.blackbelt100lenses.org.
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