Underage Drinking Photo Project

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Underage Drinking Photo Project
Pedro Haro, Project Manager
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Photovoice

• The photovoice concept was developed by Professor
  Caroline Wang at the University of Michigan
  School of Public Health and Mary Ann Burris from
  the Ford Foundation
• Photovoice is a process that has been used for
  research, education, social change, and the
  development of more healthful public policy

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Photovoice

• Three main goals
• To enable people to record and reflect their
  communitys strengths and concerns
• To promote discussion about important issues
  through group discussions of photographs
• To educate policy makers and other people in
  charge

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Picture This A Snapshot of Health in Contra
Costa County

• This picture represents my own personal fears.
  A child died here on Highway 4, going west. This
  is a single lane highway, a trucking route.
  People are in a hurry. There are no sidewalks.
  The truckers are in a big hurry. This cross
  represents a child that died 5 years ago. I worry
  about my own children, like I said this picture
  is really about my own fears.
  Brenda Dick

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• It may not look like they serve great food
  here, but they do. You can come here and see the
  same old faces. It is a community spot in
  downtown Pittsburg where people get together and
  respect each other. Michael Morris

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• This is a picture of a park behind my house. I
  don't trust my kids going there. There are
  bottles and trash. The signs went up last summer,
  supposedly the city has no more money to take
  care of the park.
  Nicole Cook

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Social Reform Children

• Riis and Hine used photography to expose the
  plight of poor immigrants and the exploitation of
  child labor in New York (late 19th century).
  Hines shocking images resulted in the passing of
  the Child Labor Law.

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Underage Drinking Photo Project

• Elements of Photovoice can be used to
• Identify themes and priorities of youth in
  relation to underage drinking
• Identify themes that can be used for the state
  Social Marketing Underage Drinking Campaign
• Use the findings to help set your local and state
  HPUDD agenda
• A visual statement of what needs to be done to
  encourage community leaders

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Steps in Underage Drinking Photo Project

• Adult leaders are trained in Photovoice process
  and materials disseminated
• Adult leaders train youth in Photo project and
  pass out cameras
• Youth take photographs write description
• Youth get together in a group discuss photographs
• Youth members select photographs that hold the
  most meaning and refine description
• Group decides how the photographs can best be put
  to use

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First Meeting with Youth

• Explain Photovoice and instructions
• Discuss Themes for Photographs
• Distribution of coded Photographs and Notebook
• Note down on sheet who got which number camera
  and notebook

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Photograph taking and Camera Collection

• Timeline for taking photographs
• Timeline for retrieving cameras and notebooks
  from youth
• Cameras need to be returned to our office by
  January 12 for development.
• Photos and notebooks will be returned to you by
  January 26

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Second Meeting With Youth

• Group Discussion of photographs
• Selecting
• Choose photographs for each person to explain to
  the rest of the group
• Contextualizing
• Tell stories about what the photographs mean to
  the youth
• Codifying
• Identifying issues, themes, or theories that
  emerge

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Selecting Photographs

• Group Discussion of photographs
• Choose the photographs that you would like to
  discuss (2-3 photographs per person)

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Contextualizing Photographs

• Discuss the photographs using the following
  questions
• What do you see here?
• What is really happening here?
• How does this relate to our lives?
• Why does this situation or concern exist?
• What can we do about it?

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Codifying Photographs

• In group identify any
• Themes or issues that came from the group
  discussion of your photographs
• Refining descriptions for photographs
• Using the group discussion and notebook entries,
  refine captions for 2-3 photographs

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Policy/Community Change

• Group discussion of underage drinking issues
• What possible new policies or policy changes came
  from the discussion of your photographs?
• What key activities do you want to focus on?
• Who in your community should be exposed to these
  pictures? Policymakers? Parents? Where? How?

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Materials

• Adult leaders will be provided with a kit that
  contains
• Adult instruction and checklist
• Youth instruction card
• 1 numbered camera
• 1 numbered notebook
• 1 sheet to record which youth got which camera
• 1 pre-paid box to return camera

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Photography Themes

• Youth will be asked to answer the following
  questions through their pictures
• How does alcohol affect you, your friends, your
  community, or your family?
• How does alcohol advertising impact you or your
  friends?
• How should we reduce underage drinking in your
  community?

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Photography Guidelines

• Be creative! Let it represent you, not what you
  think others want you to say
• For this specific project, no photographs of
  people in order to minimize need for release
  (including self-shots)
• Do not photograph anything that you wouldnt want
  others seeing

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Photography 101 Light

• Pay careful attention to the light conditions in
  your photograph
• Try to place the sun at your back when you are
  shooting your photographs. This will help you
  avoid backlit subjects with shadowy faces.

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Photography 101 Shooting

• When shooting a photograph, hold the camera
  steady and release the shutter carefully
• Hold the camera with both hands, with elbows
  against your body and feet spread apart. This
  helps to avoid camera shake or vibration which
  leads to unsharp pictures.

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Photography 101 Composition

• Composition is the placement of elements
  (objects, environment) in a photograph within the
  frame of the photograph
• Pay attention to how you arrange the, objects,
  and environment in your photograph

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Note taking

• A notebook will be included so that youth can
  write down their notes
• Picture Number
• What is the picture of?
• Why did you take this picture?
• What are you trying to say with the picture?
• Questions?

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Social Marketing Multi Media Campaign Team
Members

• Project Manager, Pedro Haro
• Public Relations Coordinator, Kathleen Popa
• Project Evaluator, Dr. Stefan Keller
• Community Outreach Coordinator, Sean Spriggs
• 3949 Diamond Head Road
• Honolulu HI 96816-4495
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