--- titre: "BRIGHT Art and Culture: the Lens on Life – BRIGHT Lab, art for social impact" chemin: "/programmes/art-and-culture" type: page format: blocs langue: en groupe_traduction: 01a12936-3c84-7475-b98e-dd540b8d4a1a description: "BRIGHT Art and Culture in Yaoundé: the Lens on Life – BRIGHT Lab teaches photography, film directing and creative writing. Exhibitions since 2021, three Canon MIRAISHA scholarships in 2024, a new cohort of 20 in 2025." statut: publie libelle_de_menu: "Art and Culture" publie_le: 2026-10-11T04:26:24+00:00 version: 7 --- - type: departement departement: "BRIGHT Art and Culture" titre: "Art for social impact." pictogramme: art accroche: "Lens on Life has worked with BRIGHT in Yaoundé since 2021. In our own Lab, young people affected by displacement learn photography, film and writing, and each builds a photo project on a Sustainable Development Goal." image: { source: "/medias/actualites/exposition-lens-on-life-2025.webp", alt: "Visitors looking at a photograph on the wall of the exhibition at Au Comptoir des Arts", largeur: 1600, hauteur: 1180 } legende: "The exhibition of the 2024 cohort, Yaoundé, March 2025." - type: programme ancre: what-we-offer departement: "BRIGHT Art and Culture" titre: "Lens on Life – BRIGHT Lab" pictogramme: art accroche: "What we offer." offre: - "**Photography**: images that raise awareness and drive advocacy" - "**Film directing**: mission-driven stories that inspire change" - "**Creative writing**: purposeful content that connects with audiences" - "Small classes with personal mentoring, portfolio development and exhibitions" - "Guest workshops with industry professionals, and community showcase events" - "An internship with a media house" public: "Young people affected by displacement and other barriers to opportunity. Their instructors: Daniel, photojournalist; Erika, journalist; Preston, cinematographer. Erika and Preston are former learners who now teach in Yaoundé." responsable: "Lens on Life and Staelle Erica Yemele Sokeng, Head of Arts and Culture" image: { source: "/medias/photos/preston.webp", alt: "Preston, a former Lens on Life learner, standing with his camera on a village street", largeur: 1600, hauteur: 1066 } legende: "Preston joined the programme in 2021 and won a Canon MIRAISHA scholarship in 2024 to study filmmaking." - type: jalons ancre: activities surtitre: "What we have done" titre: "Our activities." entrees: - date: "2021-07" titre: "The first photography workshop" texte: "From 5 to 9 July, photography professionals from Cameroon work with the Lens on Life Project; the photographs are exhibited with the Yaoundé III Council." - date: "2021" titre: "Twenty young photographers" texte: "Twenty young people from Cameroon's North and South regions graduate from photography training." - date: "2024-03-28" titre: "The Lens on Life – BRIGHT Lab opens" texte: "Our own photography training centre opens with an exhibition of more than 60 photographs, seen by 200 visitors and covered by CRTV television and radio." - date: "2024-10" titre: "Three Canon MIRAISHA scholarships" texte: "Our learners win scholarships in photojournalism, filmmaking and screenwriting." - date: "2025-03-27" titre: "The 2024 cohort exhibits" texte: "Final photography projects on the Sustainable Development Goals, at Au Comptoir des Arts in Dragage, Yaoundé." - date: "2025-04" titre: "A new cohort of 20" texte: "Twenty new learners, aged 14 to 24, start photography and digital literacy." - type: chiffres ancre: results surtitre: "Results" titre: "What it has made possible." entrees: - { valeur: "60+", libelle: "photographs exhibited at the opening of the Lab", source: "28 March 2024" } - { valeur: "200", libelle: "visitors at the opening of the Lab", source: "28 March 2024" } - { valeur: "3", libelle: "Canon MIRAISHA scholarships won by our learners", source: "October 2024" } - { valeur: "20", libelle: "new learners in photography and digital literacy", source: "2025" } - type: galerie ancre: photos titre: "Photos" images: - image: { source: "/medias/photos/lens-on-life-equipe-rouge.webp", alt: "Five young learners in red T-shirts with their cameras in front of the Lens on Life banner", largeur: 918, hauteur: 612 } legende: "Learners of the Lens on Life – BRIGHT Lab." - image: { source: "/medias/photos/lens-on-life-deux-photographes.webp", alt: "Two young photographers framing a shot with their cameras", largeur: 1600, hauteur: 1067 } legende: "Learning to frame a shot." - image: { source: "/medias/photos/lens-on-life-objectifs.webp", alt: "Learners aiming their cameras during a Lens on Life photography class", largeur: 1080, hauteur: 691 } legende: "A photography class at the Lab." - image: { source: "/medias/photos/lens-on-life-promotion.webp", alt: "Young learners of the Lens on Life programme holding their certificates with their trainers", largeur: 1600, hauteur: 1067 } legende: "A Lens on Life cohort and their certificates." - image: { source: "/medias/photos/lens-on-life-pratique.webp", alt: "Two young men practising photography, one framing a shot while the other checks his camera", largeur: 1080, hauteur: 663 } legende: "Photography practice with the Lens on Life programme." - image: { source: "/medias/photos/lens-on-life-certificat.webp", alt: "A BRIGHT member holding her certificate between two Lens on Life trainers", largeur: 918, hauteur: 612 } legende: "A certificate from the Lens on Life programme." - type: prose ancre: stories surtitre: "From our blog" titre: "Their stories." texte: "- [The 2024 cohort of the Canon Young People Programme exhibits in Yaoundé](/blog/lens-on-life-exhibition-2025/)\n- [Canon Young People Programme: an exhibition, and a new cohort](/blog/canon-young-people-programme-2026/)" - type: appel surtitre: "Support Art and Culture" titre: "Give a young photographer a voice." texte: "A camera, a class, an exhibition: every gift helps a story be told." actions: - { libelle: "Donate", href: "/donate/" } - { libelle: "All departments", href: "/programmes/" }