photogenX - training photographers eyes to see a world of injustice and a God of healing - a ministry of Youth With A Mission

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MORE INFO (for the Around the World Track)

The first course in the Track is called the Foundation of Photographic Communication Part 1. This course will elevate the student’s knowledge from a basic to an intermediate level. Students will focus on photography, documentary, photo journalism, studying different topics of art design, and learning how to use editing software. There will also be the opportunity to make different field trips through Southern Africa.

After leaving Southern Africa students will begin the Biblical Foundation of Photographic Communication Course which will take place the Middle East and the Mediterranean. Students will have an intense lecture and study period in Egypt for a month before embarking on a trek up Mt Sinai, a tour through the Holy Land to Jerusalem, and seeing first hand the locations of the Apostle Paul's missionary journeys in Turkey and Greece. Once arriving in Greece students will again settle in for another intense month long study of the scriptures. The Bible Course will give each student a basic overview of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation with in-depth understanding of key passages and themes. The study will take place on location as the student experiences the culture and geography of the Bible. In addition, each student will be able to capture the people and places of the Bible photographically.

Next, the Humanity Core Course will enable the students to engage with global world culture. Students will be given tools to be able to walk into every country on the planet and understand the history and the culture of that particular nation, as well as giving an understanding of what God is already doing in the nation and how they will be able to serve that. This course will take the student through Europe and Asia.

Then the students will begin to settle in to beautiful Kona, Hawaii for the Foundation of Photographic Communications Part 2. This course will give the student a tertiary understanding of photography and design, and the students will produce a school project that will be published by photogenX.

After sending their newly designed work off to print, the students will acquire tools for public speaking, web design and other communication strategies in the Communications Core Course which will enable them to distribute their publication. This course also happens in Kona, Hawaii.

Finally the Students will embark on the last phase of the Track, the Communication Core Course Outreach, commonly known as the distribution tour. During these final months the students, in teams, will take their finished product to locations of their choosing on a distribution tour which they themselves will have planned in advance. This final stage of the track have fully equipped each student to bring a justice publication endeavor from conception to an advocacy distribution.

More information:

The cost: $1200 / month, works out to be $3600 / quarter

The fees will be payable at the start of each quarter. (To compare your currency to the USD, go to XE.com)

 

Love Reconciles All - from 2009 Around the World Track

photogenX - a ministry of Youth With a Mission

We are all aware of this other hurting world. The world where poverty cripples families and mothers wonder how to feed their children. The world of HIV, malaria, airborne illnesses, water shortages and dwindling resources. It’s the place where the slave trade was never fully abolished. Where millions of men, women and children are still held captive year after year to be sexually exploited. That “other world” of systematic starvation and violence where people are forced to leave their native lands to find refuge on foreign soil. It’s the war-torn world. The oppressed world. The dying world that we are all so very aware of.

We have all seen charts with statistics and felt overwhelmed. Perhaps so much so that our brains just turn off. Those news reels ticking on the bottom of our TV screens become just that - news reels. The human element is lost and we begin to create “issues” out of actual suffering. People who are hungry become “starvation”. A million displaced people become a new “demographic of refugees”. War is what happens “over there” and all this definition and brainwave organization helps us to cope with a Gospel of love that, in the end, frightens a lot of us.

But few of us take the actual time and give credence to a silly thing called hope. Yet we, as a community of 17 missionary - photographers from 5 countries, have come to think that this silliness is what we were actually made for.

Read more: Love Reconciles All - from 2009 Around the World Track

 

The photogenX Around The World Track :: love must win out

Prerequisites for the RTW Track

Any YWAM Discipleship Training School.
We recommend the photogenX DTS and outreach program.

 

The photogenX "Around The World Track" is for those with a heart of adventure, a passion for justice, and a creative drive to learn photography for the purpose of community transformation. Through this course you will learning photography and have the opportunity to shoot around the world. You will visit places as diverse as the Amazon Jungle, the Sahara Desert and the Himalayan Mountains. You will get to study the Bible on the back of a camel or on a boat through the Middle East. You will study world culture not out of books but in the nations among the people. And most importantly you will use your camera to combat injustice and oppression in the world around you.

To sign up for the photogenX around the world track, you need to apply for the School of Photographic Communication 1

At the end of this adventure, you will:

1. Have enhanced your knowledge and understanding of photography and justice
2. A global photo portfolio
3. Have your work published in a photogenX publication
4. Acquire deeper understanding of discipleship, the Bible, world culture and worldview.
5. Have a whole lot of friends around the world!

Read more: The photogenX Around The World Track :: love must win out

   

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