This photovoice workshop explored the relationship between gender, youth, and HIV/AIDS. Participants were members of the New College, Youth Advisory Board for the Gendering Adolescent AIDS Prevention (GAAP) Project, University of Toronto. Participants were invited to attend a presentation on the structural determinants of HIV risk from a gender and global perspective. Following the presentation, youth were given disposable cameras and asked to work in small groups to take photographs that reflected ideas and/or issues about gender and HIV/AIDS raised in the presentation.
When the photos were developed, each group was asked to write about their images using the following questions as a guide: 1) What is happening in this photo? 2) Why did you take this photo? 3) How does this photo relate to gender and HIV/AIDS 4) What is a good caption for your photo? All photos were then displayed on a large blank mural with room for all workshop participants to comment on the images produced by other groups.
Selected photos from the workshop are posted in the slideshow below.
Gendering Adolescent AIDS Prevention 