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National Geographic PhotocampNational Geographic Photo Camp is a series of photography workshops for youth from underserved communities both in and outside the U.S. In partnership with local and national organizations, Photo Camp inspires young people to explore their communities through the camera's lense, and to share their vision through public presentations such as the Pop!Tech Conference. Pop!Tech is honored to host Photo Camp each year in partnership with the National Geographic Society. |  |
What the participants are saying: Experiences like this give me hope about the future growth of consciousness of the world. - Abigail Chance ... I know that I will take what I learned at the Conference and at Photo Camp with me through life. - Ali Dreisman This Year's Program This year, Photo Camp will take place in one of our Maine island communities on beautiful Penobscot Bay with a group of high school students. The themes for Photo Camp 2008: Nature, the Environment, and Conservation: Youth perspectives on their generation’s connection to the natural world. |  | The students will participate in the 4-day Photo Camp just prior to the Pop!Tech Conference in October. The focus of their photographic work will coincide with Pop!Tech's theme of Scarcity and Abundance. |  | | 2008 Photo Camp participants will work with esteemed freelance photographer and National Geographic contributor Amy Toensing. |  |
Four young photographers set out to explore and document their perspective of Pop!Tech's 2007 Conference: "The Human Impact." For these talented students, the camera becomes a tool for learning and for exploration during their unique experience with Pop!Tech. |  | Four students, sharing a common background as recent immigrants living in the United States, interviewed the world-changing participants of the conference and documented the entire event. As a result, Pop!Tech gained a next generation view of the world's challenges and opportunities. |  | | The 2007 Photo Camp participants were: Hana Hassan, Portland, ME; Ali Mahamed Garad, Portland, ME; Zakaria Ahmed, New York, NY; and Towhid Ara, New York, NY. The students were mentored by National Geographic Photographer Jay Dickman with help from Technical Director Stephen Mefford and Teaching Assistant Eric Spalding. |  |
Watch the 2007 Slide Show
Feedback from the 2007 Photo Camp Participants: 
Meeting with new people, taking a picture of a person you have never seen, interviewing them as a speaker... Oh! That is really, really wonderful. - Ali Mohamed 
I heard from different speakers different kinds of human impacts like evolution, dance, and the impact of trash on our planet. This made me think that everything in the world is connected to each other. - Towhid Ara 
I can use the information I learned from Pop!Tech to impact my place in the world, to use every word I heard in the sessions in my real life and tell everyone around me. - Hana Hassan | |
| In 2006, we held a nationally competitive search to select a group of talented high school and college students who apprenticed to a professional photographer and then photographed the entire conference, including making special portraits of some of the speakers |  | These students interviewed the world-changing participants of the conference and documented the entire event. As a result, Pop!Tech gained a next-generation view of the world's challenges and opportunites. |  | | The program proved to be a great success. 2006 marked the first year that Pop!Tech teamed up with The National Geographic Society to offer this amazing opportunity to underserved communities both in and outside of the United States. |  |
Feedback from the 2006 Photo Camp Participants:  | | Pop!Tech has opened my eyes to the magnitude of our environmental and energy crisis. I've always known I should take action, but now I want to make a difference, and I know I have to make a difference. - Ali Driesman | |  | | | It's about being open to change. The presentations reminded me that in order for there to be any type of change (political, economic, social...), people need to be educated and willing to work and grow into more conscious human beings. - Abigail Chance | |  | | | My goal is to bring progressive people together uniting the work of inspired individuals to buy into the potential for social entrepreneurship and the civil society the fastest growing phonomena of the twenty-first century. - David Hopkins | |  | | | My ideas have grown in a positive, optimistic way through being here, but I know there is still a lot to do. We need to use as much of our knowledge and capacitites as we have to move forward, instead of being nostalgic about the past. - Alize Van Reeth | |
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