David Johnson speaks at a conference about Genocide at Temple Beth El
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Lecture at UNC
David had the privilege to speak to over 500 university students at UNC Thursday night. The topic was, “Investing your life…impacting global poverty.”
Lecture at Queens University
David Johnson gave two lectures to the Global Studies classes at Queens University.
“Our Turning Point”
Silent Images’ volunteers had the honor of teaching a photography class to the students at Turning Point Academy. Each one of these students have been placed on long term suspension by CMS…and some might say that they are not worth investing into. Well, we found that to be far from the truth. The students were [...]
Gallery at Wingate University
A Silent Images gallery is hanging at Wingate University for August and September. The gallery celebrates the beauty of women and girls as they fight oppression, poverty, sexual abuse and genocide in developing nations. David appeared for a book signing and meet and greet in September. Many students and faculty attended and were educated [...]
Community School for Girls
For the month of September, Silent Images volunteers are teaching photography to at risk girls at the Community School for Girls. The class is challenging the girls to redefine beauty as they learn to use their cameras to identify beauty in the South End of Charlotte.
Our journey to Charlotte
Silent Images’ volunteers have taught their first of three journalism classes to children who have arrived to Charlotte as refugees or immigrants. The children, who were from Iraq, Haiti, Venezuela, and Vietnam, were taught photography and journalism skills and then sent home to interview and photograph someone from their family and document their journey story. [...]
Homeless Children, Charlotte, NC
Silent Images, a Charlotte based non-profit organization, spent the past three years using their cameras to tell the stories of genocide and famine in Africa and human trafficking in South East Asia. This summer, they refocused their lenses to tell the stories of homeless children in Charlotte. However, this time, Silent Images did not tell [...]
Queens University
It was an honor to lecture to an International studies class at Queens University on Friday March 5. The students were receptive to what our mission is at Silent Images and they had a lot of great questions about their role in being a global citizen.
Baylor Academy, TN
Over 300 students gathered at Baylor Academy to hear about Silent Images and how they can play an active role in being a responsible and responsive global citizen. It is always an honor to lecture at schools, and I was energized by the students enthusiasm to know more about Africa. Although our time was short, [...]
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