With support from the California Arts Council, Las Fotos Project will will provide photography and career development mentorship for teenage girls in Los Angeles through the CEO (Creative Entrepreneurship Opportunities) program, a social enterprise and a youth workforce development program that supports students to enter Los Angeles’ creative industries. Programming will include in-class facilitation, post-production editing training, and one-on-one mentored fieldwork per 12-week semester.
Founded in 2010, Las Fotos Project (a Community Partners project) is a non-profit community-based photography program located in Los Angeles, whose primary goal is to advance positive change for adolescent girls and gender-expansive youth through one-on-one mentoring, photography trainings, and assigned field projects. Our programs and services also foster the creativity, communication, critical thinking, and collaboration skills needed to compete in a 21st century workforce. We annually serve more than 300 female and gender-expansive students between the ages of 13-18 from communities of color, who do not have access to photography equipment or arts-based programs.