Soundslides is a program that's free in the trial version (which never expires). It takes pictures (jpgs) and an audio file (mp3) and helps you create a compelling audio slide show. This software is simple to download and to use. It can be embedded in your blog or shared as a link.

The “Nzirambi Photo Exhibition”, providing a glimpse into life at a Ugandan orphanage, will be unveiled during a special fundraising event on October 27. Funds raised go toward the Nzirambi Fund which ensures the boys and girls of this orphanage have access to higher levels of education.

This "Tricks of the Trade" workshop will cover the basic rules in photography including composition, rule of thirds, when to do total shots vs. close-ups, how to show emotion, what to focus on.... Iven will focus on what works and what doesn't and will evaluate our photographs after a practice session. You can see Iven's animation and sketches on his website iveno.deThe name of the series, Tricks of the Trade, draws on the idea of Nobel laureate playwright and actor Dario Fo's Tricks of the Trade workshops and book which he undertook in order to empower and animate the left. We are planning 4-6 sessions this summer on a variety of topics (street theatre, photography, guerrilla videos) and hope to continue the series in the fall.

We're inviting our supporters to spend an evening with us on June 10th at Rhizome Café.

Hope in Shadows is about building connections and strengthening communities. So we want to do just that by bringing our community of supporters and project participants together.

This special event will be an opportunity to connect with Hope in Shadows photographers and calendar vendors and hear about some new projects they've been working on, including being commissioned to create new photography for an interdisciplinary dance performance and being published in Megaphone's Voices of the Street. It'll also be a chance to help us brainstorm ideas for the 10th anniversary of Hope in Shadows coming up next year.

Exhibition of Photographs by Elle Flanders & Tamira Sawatzky Opening Reception to be announced What Isn’t There is an ongoing collaboration between filmmaker and photographer Elle Flanders and architect Tamira Sawatzky, documenting the places where Palestinian villages once stood.

The creation of the State of Israel in 1948 signaled the end of these villages, through force and exile, and since that time many have returned to nature. While Flanders and Sawatzky occasionally find small signs of past and present habitation, they are more concerned with what truly remains -- the unsettling presence of absence.