Our workshops
For young people
Impressions from the workshops
Young people primarily use image-based media (Insta, TikTok, YouTube). Artificial intelligence makes creating images easier, but also more challenging. Our workshops guide young people through this development. They increase media literacy, visual analysis and critical thinking skills (e.g. when it comes to fake news and deepfakes), as well as an understanding of photography, photojournalism and artificial intelligence. Important skills for the participants’ everyday lives and therefore for society and democracy.
Workshop contents
Our aim is to sensitize young people to the importance of photojournalism and at the same time strengthen their media skills. Recognizing deepfakes and understanding the concept of truth are key topics that we address in order to help young people deal critically with visual content.
The four-hour workshops include topics such as image composition, perspective and subjectivity of images as well as a practical introduction to legal frameworks, visual storytelling and AI-generated images.
If you are a teacher or youth work specialist, our workshops also offer an interesting opportunity for further training in the field of visual literacy. Teachers can use the teaching and information materials we provide to prepare for and follow up on the workshops (one lesson each). In line with our train-the-trainer concept, you can use this to provide further media education impetus in your work in the future.
The first workshops offered as part of the “Jugend Fotografiert Deutschland” photography competition were successfully held in Hamburg in November 2024!
We look forward to visiting your school or institution! Let’s dive into the world of photojournalism together and develop the visual skills of young people.
If you are interested, please send us an e-mail at info@laif-foundation.org
Impressions from the workshops
Teachers and students
FCK Fake News
As an inspiration for ideas that can be developed from our workshops, you can see a media education project by our photographer André Lützen above. A project that was realized in 2023 together with the cultural education department of the Deichtorhallen Hamburg and six Hamburg students on the topic of fake news.
The internet is considered the most democratic medium of all. Anyone can post, comment and share on an equal footing. And young people in particular use social media to get information, but they also run the risk of falling for false reports, as news is often embellished and manipulated. They often lack the criteria to differentiate between reputable and dubious sources and to assess the credibility of news. On the one hand, this relates to political fake news (false news), which can lead to a loss of diversity of information if disseminated uncritically and can be a threat to democracy, but on the other hand it also relates to very “personal” fake news such as self-promotion on media such as Instagram and TikTok. Users are constantly presented with the image of the perfect person and an exciting life, whether through image editing or cropping out the surroundings.
The students’ work on the topic of fake news can be seen on the website specially designed for the project.
(https://www.klubderkuenste.com/home/)
Participating schools: Charlotte-Paulsen-Gymnasium, Gymnasium Buckhorn, Emilie-Wüstenfeld-Gymnasium, Reformschule Winterhude, Gymnasium Allee, ReBBZ Billstedt (Regionales-Bildungs- und Beratungszentrum)
Coordination of the project: Birgit Hübner, Head of Cultural Education at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg
Project idea and artistic direction: André Lützen
Photographs: André Lützen
Artistic collaboration and realization: Nora Luttmer and Ruth Marie Kröger
Many thanks to our partners
