Powerful Art/Photography

I've been exploring Taking IT Global(reviewed earlier this month) a bit more recently, and have discovered that the Global Gallery - where youth all over the world post their artwork/photos on several SJ themes/issues, and comment on each other's work. Some of the stuff is phenomenal, especially the monthly contests on specific issues.

Here's the link to the whole Global Gallery:
http://www.takingitglobal.org/express/gallery/

Contests:
http://www.takingitglobal.org/express/gallery/contests/view.html

Check out, in particular:
Recognizing the Resistance of Indigenous Peoples:
http://www.takingitglobal.org/express/gallery/contests/contest.html?contestID=371

Belonging to the Body (disability and the body):
http://www.takingitglobal.org/express/gallery/artwork/collections.html?collectionID=865&type=contest

Women's Rights: To be a Woman
http://www.takingitglobal.org/express/gallery/artwork/collections.html?type=contest&collectionID=629

Millennium Development Goals: Vision 2015 - Your Future
http://www.takingitglobal.org/express/gallery/artwork/collections.html?collectionID=696&type=contest

...there are lots of great other ones.. just thought iId give a sampling...

I think sometime we forget how powerful it can be to express ourselves through artwork - it can really help each of us to understand people from vastly different parts of the world, different cultures. And through respectful understanding we can break down stereotypes, prejudice, and really begin to deconstruct racism and other forms of descrimination and oppression. That's how we start to create the world we want

~Chris