Jennifer Pantaleon

<p><strong>Jennifer Cheek Pantal&eacute;on</strong> is a documentary photographer who has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area over 25 years. Her projects with at-risk youth began in the late 1980's in SF's Tenderloin neighborhood taking photographs for children's advocacy agencies working to create after school programs, playgrounds, and a school for the areas 4,000 children. This work culminated in a permanent exhibit for the Tenderloin Community School in 2002.&nbsp;</p> <p>From 1997-2001, Jennifer taught photography to homeless teenagers at Youth Industry's in San Francisco. Since 2004, she has collaborated with teachers in the Photography in Education programs in San Francisco schools. Her documentary projects include a four-generation family of Alaskan gold miners, landmine victims in Cambodia, victims of AIDS in a San Francisco residential hotel, and homeless and runaway teenagers living on the streets of San Francisco.</p> <p>For the last fifteen years, Jennifer has been teaching photography workshops and documenting street children in Haiti along with other projects. Her long-term project <em>The Legacy of Lafanmi Selavi-Street Children in Haiti, part one</em> was shown at the Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, OR, and screened at Visa pour l'Image in Perpignan, France in 2008. This project was also shown collectively with her Haitian student's post-earthquake photographs at the Exposure Gallery in San Francisco in 2010. Selected prints from <em>Haiti: Daily Life</em> are in the permanent exhibition at the United States Embassy, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Jennifer is the Executive Director of Zanmi Lakay, a non-profit she co-founded with her husband to help current and former street children in Haiti.</p>

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