1000 Families

 

COME AND JOIN US

(version française)

The photographer, Uwe Ommer, awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the Royal Photographic Society for his lifetime of work in 2002, is giving you the possibility to support his new project in progress: After the adventure “1000 Families”, this new series will illustrate and document what today’s Teen Families look like in Europe.

  • The advantage of this extremely humanistic project is that it presents teenagers in a positive light and places them at the heart of the work.
  • An incredible amount of content is under construction, and this material (photos, videos, interviews…) aims to act as a pool of resources to team up with today’s youth and everything it represents as future ethics.
  • Last but not least, it is important to note that sponsoring this project will give access to the content, and sustain it for several years.

Creating common values

The project is primarily based on photographs presented as diptychs (parents/teens) and interviews, with the idea to exhibit them in different regions and European countries during major exhibitions and make a collection for a book.

We will also give top priority to a film that will be made for television, the Internet and all digital formats (web documentary).

DEVELOPING THE CONTENT USING MULTI MEDIA AIDS :

There are many ways in which you may participate in the content development :

  • by sponsoring portraits of the Teen Families
  • by sponsoring TV programs (short or 52 minute films, funding the web documentary)
  • by creating a photo album, a travel journal – there are different possible angles: youth, discovery, Europe, etc.
  • in the layout and accessibility of images for Internet use: photos, videos of interviews, behind the scenes…
  • by participating in publishing a Teen Families DVD (for sale or free)
  • by setting up a “Teen Families” column in a magazine or on the radio
  • by participating in an in-house competition involving teen families amongst your employees (backed-up by an exhibition)

INTERNAL COMMUNICATION

Management : Uwe Ommer’s new project is easily accessible and its content very relevant to your workers; they will be able to identify with it, and it will bring them together in a common vision of humanity, different cultures and the future. Joining this project and participating in Uwe Ommer’s work will give you another means to portray your company’s ethics and increase your business’s visibility, both in-house and externally.

Socially attractive : This joint venture is the perfect occasion to join a social network that is already set up and open to meeting new contacts throughout the 27 European countries.

PR : Create a cultural and geographical in-house reference using the photographer’s works he will create during his travels. Use the images for your external PR. Surprise your clients with by-products, with images or excerpts from interviews (agendas, calendars, business cards, posters…)

Communities

During 2010/2011, Uwe Ommer is going to travel across the member states of the European Union as well as several others to carry out this new series of “Teen Families”. Depending on the people he meets and the size of the country, he will be taking photos of approximately 200 families.
Whilst meeting all these young people and their parents, we realized that a lot of communication can be shared between the generations but also between the young people, and a “Teen Family” community is just calling out to be set up. Thanks to Facebook, Teen Families is the perfect catalyst for this community.

A site dedicated to the community set up to share videos of interviews, commentaries and forums.
(http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10150094958645506)

Events

Media coverage is an essential part that will be planned and put into place with the different partner or partners. PR programs will widen the Teen Families contacts and help create events and activities, such as :

EXHIBITIONS

A Belgian NGO that has already organized major “1000 Families” exhibitions in Belgium, Ireland, Finland, Malta and Kenya plans to continue working on the “Teen Families” exhibitions that will be shown at the Botanical Gardens in Belgium in 2012.
A project is in the pipeline for the European Capital of Culture project in Marseille-Provence that is planned for 2013, exhibiting photos portraying a Mediterranean influence. For this occasion, an open-air exhibition at Baux de Provence is under discussion.
The Centre Pompidou in Paris is opening a special space dedicated to teenagers towards the end of 2010 and hopes to share the network of European teenagers that we’re putting together in order to stimulate its new platform.

BOOK

A book will be published at the end of production. Several editions of “1000 Families” have been brought out by different publishing houses: Taschen (trilingual), Seuil Jeunesse (7 languages), Albin Michel Jeunesse (currently at press).

Team

Art director: Uwe Ommer - Photographer

In 1963, he came to live in Paris where he started working as a photographer’s assistant. His work was soon recognized and he began shooting fashion and advertising photos. In 1995, he took on a personal challenge to make a worldwide family photo album, and from 1996 to 2000, he travelled the five continents with his Rolleiflex and his portable studio. This work was presented for the first time at the Photokina 2000 (Cologne, Germany). 1000 family portraits were exhibited over 1,6 km. After his book, “1000 Families”, was published by Taschen, Uwe Ommer then revealed what went on “behind the scenes” during his epic photographic project in his funny and exuberant travel journal, “TRANSIT”. Since his “Family Album of Planet Earth” voyage through Europe, America, Asia and Africa, Uwe Ommer has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship to the Royal Photographic Society for the impact of his lifetime of work.(www.uweommer.eu)

Co-production and interviews: Régine Feldgen – Culture management

Depuis 2007 Régine Feldgen accompagne le travail du photographe Uwe Ommer, en charge du réseau d'expositions des "1000 Familles" et de la coordination de projet en cours. Elle apporte une connaissance des nouveaux langages technologiques, développe des outils et supports de communication et est en charge de recherche de partenariat.
Dans le projet des Familles d’Ados et en tant que mère de deux enfants ados (13 et 15 ans) Régine Feldgen participe à la conception du projet, réalise les interviews avec les familles sur place, est en charge de la postproduction et la mise en place des différentes déclinaisons du projet (expositions, webdocumentaire, livre). (www.impulsionconseil.com)

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