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By: Kendra Hurley
Published: July 11, 2006
Category: In Brief
A digital photography class at the International Center for Photography helps girls who have been in trouble with the law gain “a measure of control of their difficult lives,” the New York Times reports. “Art therapy has been used for years to try to give troubled youth a different perspective on their lives, and photography has long aided that process by lowering the barriers to entry: no need to know how to draw or paint, just a willingness to pick up a camera and try. But digital photography is now offering the added power of immediacy, instantaneous images that are proving especially effective for groups of girls like those in the program, mostly black and Hispanic, who struggle as much as or perhaps more than teenage boys with how they are viewed by society.”
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