Empowerment with Media Campaigns.
David Hevey Productions empowerment-media campaigns – about inspiring and communicating cultural solutions for people outside power, many of whom live in 'new grim' times of less.
David is internationally known & critically-acclaimed for his pioneering empowerment campaigns. Organisations and their users often want change, and David Hevey creates and delivers media about social-change and cultural-solutions, through innovative & highly original media for organisations, people and their stories, connecting peoples who are often hard to reach and showing these stories for people and clients in original, powerful and truthful ways.
For clients, he delivers original, compelling media and stories, working with people and content from within many diverse communities, through a range of fresh & original engagement and forms, including outreach, social media, distance-directing, film, television & touring digital cinema. David Hevey’s reputation in diversity and difference, is built on delivering the authentic voices of peoples on the margins and outside the mainstream, shown in moving, evidenced & compelling ways.
David’s campaigns for clients are effective. David Hevey’s The Creatures Time Forgot: Photography & Disability Imagery book and imagery-series set the representation agenda in the 1990s for disabled people, and his landmark series, The Disabled Century film and tv-series, set the visual and story agenda for disabled people in the early 21st Century.
David’s empowerment and diversity work has been screened, exhibited or lectured upon in practically every UK Cultural Institution, including the NFT, the National Media Centre, the ICA, the Late Review, the BBC, the Open University, the Hayward Gallery, the BFI and so on.
David Hevey's empowerment-through-media campaigns include:
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The touring exhibition of giant photographs of disabled people.
Giants
Produced by Shape London, opened by the Mayor at London’s City Hall, and designed to tour nationally to the UK’s & European partliaments, this was the exhibition that asked the viewer to look up to disabled people, through giant photographs of disabled, diverse and different people.
David Hevey: Key Creative, Producer, Photographer & Writer.
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Arts Council England.
The Barriers Odyssey
Moving-image series, gallery, web-film series, DVD & workshops. The Barriers Odyssey is available as a free three-disc dvd film collection. Distribution partners are Shape Arts.
Arts Council England funded, David Hevey’s controversial 3-part moving-image series about the death of hope for outsiders in cutslandscape, New Grim Britain today – this is the series about outsiders resisting obsolescence through story. The trilogy includes Tina & The Death Of Hope In Grim Britain, and is playing across lengths, distribution networks and platforms.
David Hevey: Series-Director, Series-Producer & Writer.
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The Landmark Poster Series.
Liberty, Equality, Disability – Images Of A Movement
JRF, Arts Council England, et al.
David Hevey: Key Creative, Photographer & Writer.
