Get Involved

If you are interested in helping organize a photo exhibition of our participants' work, please contact us to discuss arrangements. The images in this collection have a unique local perspective and past exhibitions have had very positive results.

Projects

Plateau Photographers

Plateau Photographers is a participatory photography project that trains minority students in western China.

Our Mission

To train photographers in camera, media, and technology skills
To provide self-representation for project members and their communities through locally managed archiving and exhibition efforts
To present information and knowledge about Plateau communities to a larger audience
To attract interest in and support for locally-managed development projects

Asian Highlands Perspectives

Project Open Source/Open Access (POSOA)

The University of Toronto's Project Open Source/Open Access (POSOA) has supported the development of some components of this site over 2009-2010, under the direction of Frances Garrett. In a 2009-10 POSOA-sponsored project entitled "OS/OA Geospatial Information Management for Collaborative Research Teams," University of Toronto undergraduate student Matt Zito contributed images of cultural sites in Xining. For this project, Zito studied the availability to humanities and social science research teams of OS/OA tools and methods for managing and organizing place-based information.