In turn, young people are often finding themselves associated with antisocial behaviour. But young people have very little opportunity to understand how they are influenced by images or even how they themselves can challenge the image other people have of them.
This summer a residential for 13- to 19-year-olds from South Shields' Park Avenue Detached Youth Project in the Northeast was set up to give young people a creative opportunity to express themselves visually and to present their world as they see it, not as others perceived it.
Ray Whalen,who manages the project, says: "Young people are constantly portrayed in a negative light and this project has enabled the group to look at themselves and take pride in what they see."
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