The AjA Project found a niche in the community by providing an innovative educational program that can also serve as an outlet for the students' creativity. Our program also empowers the local community by providing a tool to document their rapidly changing community.

In the Photography Program, AjA instructors teach from a unique curriculum that utilizes documentary photography to encourage students to analyze their surroundings, document their lives, improve their communication skills, and explore their creativity.

This innovative practice includes a class for the students to create documentaries of their own lives and communities by using point-and-shoot cameras. The photo documentaries are augmented by the students’ writings, drawings and oral stories.

Traveling exhibitions of AjA students’ works from Thailand are a part of the "Lives in Transition: Expressions of Refugee Youth" traveling exhibt and they will also be exhibited throughout Thailand. You can also view them at our online gallery.

Be sure to check out our Record of Truth documentary video!
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The students also participates in "Documentary Interchange" initiative. They exchange their photos and letters to their penpals in San Diego or in Bogota.