Witness Change

Results: We’ve traveled to hear the stories of people from over 20+ nationalities. We’ve created a platform for our community to share their stories. Our Instagram account is followed by over 200,000 people. We’ve reached millions of people through partnerships with Time Magazine, National Geographic, The New York Times, The Guardian, Le Monde. We raised money through the project to free four LGBTQIA+ men from a prison in Nigeria. We’ve hosted exhibits on five continents, engaging with the communities we serve. We've run ten storytelling workshops with local activists to teach photography and storytelling techniques to promote self advocacy.

Target demographics: Witness Change uses visual storytelling to support excluded people as they reclaim their narratives and improve their lives.

Geographic areas served: Amplifying stories, changing lives. Society is shaped by stories. But the voices of marginalized people are often excluded, even when the stories are about them.

Programs: Where love is illegal: Where Love Is Illegal amplifies the voices of LGBTQI+ people who have experienced discrimination and persecution based on their gender identity and/or sexual orientation. We document people’s stories and share those stories around the world in order to change attitudes and end the persecution of LGBTQI+ people. In My World: In My World amplifies the stories of people living with mental health issues, psychosocial disabilities or intellectual disabilities. We do so to ensure that people affected are part of the conversations about them. We also create storytelling designed to support organisations providing essential mental health services to particularly vulnerable groups. 1000 Dreams: 1000 Dreams seeks to change prevailing refugee narratives through a storytelling project that tells the stories of 1000 refugees around the world. 1000 Dreams is entirely authored by storytellers with a refugee background. 1000 Dreams was created to elevate the capacity of refugees to tell their own stories. A course, designed to teach a team of refugee storytellers in photographic & interviewing techniques, was designed with the intention that they would go into their communities and document 1000 stories of other refugees. The project has reached millions of people around the work through social media and newspapers and magazines. The wide dissemination of refugee stories told by refugees is playing a crucial role in changing narratives about refugees.