Shoot Nations

Shoot Nations will be back in 2008 looking at children in a changing climate – watch this space!

View a slideshow of images from Shoot Nations 2007

What is Shoot Nations?

Shoot Nations is a global youth photography project that invites young people to document what matters to them, what's right and what's wrong in their world and how to make a difference.

The competition received over 1500 entries from 85 countries around the world.

A presentation of 48 of the best photos was made to the world's highest form of government on August 10th at the United Nations Headquarters in New York to celebrate International Youth Day 2007.

This presentation realised the central concept of the project, that ‘the smallest family or community issue in the most remote part of the world can be photographed and displayed at the highest level of global government’.

Young people worldwide were asked to submit three photos or drawings to meet one of the following two sets of briefs:

What upsets you?
What could you do about it?
Who listens to you?

Who do you look up to?
Who rules?
Where are they?

After the UN presentation, the project has toured an exhibition and accompanying workshop to London, Berlin, Burkina Faso and India to disseminate the images to a global audience, and share young people’s voices through promoting their photographs.

Accompanying the project is a scheme of work for the UK curriculum (Key Stage 4 Media Studies) and a wealth of multimedia resources in the Plan-ed resource centre.

For more information about the project please contact plan-ed@planinternational.org.uk, browse around the project pages or see all images submitted on the Shoot Nations site.

www.shootnations.org