Dana Stewart loves Daylight Magazine

By Dana Stewart
Published: December 17th, 2007 | 12:00am

Daylight Magazine is published biannually by the Daylight Community Arts Foundation. The Foundation, and the magazine, is an attempt to democratize art photography and use documentary images to affect social change around the world. In their previous five issues, they have featured some of my favorite photographers, including Joel Sternfeld, Alec Soth, Susan Meiselas, and in the current issue there are some great pictures by Paul Shambroom.

The Foundation has sponsored programs that include camera distribution, darkroom construction, and free workshops in Baghdad, Israel's West Bank, Kenya, Guatemala, and New Orleans, among others. Work in the magazine is by no means limited to well-connected MFAs in the United States, and shows the power that documentary photography can have in any community. Daylight is a leap forward in the laudable effort to open up the traditional art photography community and therefore vastly improve its relevancy to modern society.

Dana Stewart is an editorial intern for Venus Zine.