Clive Chilvers's Contact Details

Clive Chilvers's Company Details

Meridian Raw CIC

N/A, N/A, UK • 5 - 9 Employees
Healthcare Facility/Healthcare Services

Meridian RAW is a community interest company that uses photography as an empowerment tool for marginalised communities and socially excluded individuals. We help to bring about social change and advocacy through creative participatory photography workshops and participatory photography training. To achieve this, we place the camera in the hands of the user and provide them with the opportunity to create a photo-stories or themes that are personal, self-reflective or that highlight issues that affect them directly or that can affect their community. We also provide training to organisations and individuals who want to deliver their own participatory photography projects to their clients and their communities.This Participatory photography process, which is also referred to as "photovoice," is a form of photography whereby a group of individual's are provided with photographic equipment and through guided workshops are offered the opportunity to document an issue or problem that affects themselves and or the people and the communities around them by the use of photographic imagery. The resulting images can form the basis for discussion that can lead to heightened awareness, advocacy, potential social change and allow individual's to communicate their story or situation to a wider audience.