Photography is one of the most powerful tools to change the perception of the people. The photos that we take and we see are incredibly powerful, and they play a huge role in shaping how we see the world and the people around us. Every day, we constantly see photos of people—in social media, on websites, on television, in advertisements, in print, and in our daily environment. In many ways, the photos we see in the media have created our culture for us, and have defined the standards of who and what is supposedly good, normal, and valuable. However, the media is not as inclusive of everyone as it could be due to biases, prejudices, and stereotypes that have been passed down for generations. Because of this, the images we consume are not an accurate depiction of reality. Thus, it can be said that images that are not representative of everyone and that preserve the status quo are problematic because they perpetuate the inequalities of society. They can negatively affect how we see ourselves and our perceived worth if we don’t fit into the narrow “ideal” demographic that has been created for us. To change that, making people aware about these stereotypes and involving young people who are the main people who uses the social media post to create a new narrative which do not exclude but include the people who does not fit into the defined standards or the “ideal” demographic would make a create change. Thus, we worked with young people within this youth exchange to promote the inclusive photography and qualifying young people to use it as a tool will effectuate a huge change. Stories of Inclusion - Photography as a Tool for Inclusion was a project to change the image of photography mainstreamed among young people and create an awareness with the actions of young people in our local area and in participating countries. During the development of the project, we have learnt our previous experiences as an organisation; music, art and now, we wanted to use the knowledge through the tool as a photography. The ”ideal” image of the people and demographic “ideal” is one of the treats towards to the diversity that we live in and we promote in EU and Spain. Thus, We have chosen the name of the project as “Stories of Inclusion” to address the images promoted in the media and the make the young people aware about the power of visual storytelling for inclusion of people who are already excluded by not being fit into the “ideal” demographic that the media and advertisement industry gives us. The project directly worked with young people who are interested in the photography though not aware about the issues as we explained and their damages. We as well created these images by ourselves everyday in social media platforms. Instagram is the biggest example of one, each day 95 million photos are uploaded by random people from all around the world. Each of these photos tries to be the ideal that the media industry puts in front of us. Thus, the young people who are not fitting the ideal, they withdraw from social media, they feel something is wrong about them in very basic sense of our theme within this project. With the project we aimed to develop skills of young people concerning the visual storytelling and made them changemakers of their own communities to promote the diversity in media and in their daily life through the photos that they make. Thus, during the project, all the participants were involved with the local community which created a vibrant environment for both the participants and our local community members and promoted the diversity from different ages, different cultures and any different background. In the end of the project, we had exhibition and country groups were mixed to work in the topics focusing on the diversity and they choose photos previously that they took before joining the project. The main idea of the project was to initiate a change on the image of the “ideal” that the society promotes and qualifying the young people regards to photography. The specific objectives of the project: -To develop awareness on young people with the photography and the story telling through the photography -To create an awareness about the positiveness of the diversity and contributing to the shifting the paradigm of “ideal” the exists to the real images - To develop skills of young people on photography and visual story-telling - To qualify young people as visual story tellers to promote the diversity in their own countries and become changemakers to act towards to the issues of images -To create a local impact in Alcala la Real and making the local community aware about the diversity issues through the photo exhibition and local set of activities