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Search for Common Ground is launching a photo slideshow contest in partnership with Animoto, the online video producer. Photos should focus on themes that exemplify the idea of common ground. For example: • bridging racial divides • intergenerational relationships • teamwork • communities working together • interfaith harmony • diversity • multiculturalism • cooperation For [...]
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Following on from my article on Raghu Rai’s photos of the Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal it is worth checking out the Greenpeace Photo Essay webpage. The photo essays are a mix, combining evidential images – basically an investigatory documentation approach to support their claims – and ‘witnessing’ documentary photography – either illustrating the beauty of nature or its destruction.
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How are film and photography used in humanitarian work changing? Is so-called ‘compassion fatigue’ causing NGOs and photojournalists to re-think how they represent ‘poverty’ and ‘human rights’?
A podcast of the discussion – ‘The Future of Picturing the World: filming and imaging in a global era’ – is now available.
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Michael Hoffman, CEO of C3 Communications, comments on Viral Video on Beth Kanter’s blog.
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Azaaz organized several intiatives around the G8 meeting last week aimed at robust targets to tackle climate change. One of interest was hooking into Japanese PM Taro Aso’s love of manga by placing a full page add in his favourite comic book.
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Here are a couple of links to academic work looking at the use of photographs by NGOs and photojournalists. Although the focus is on ‘humanitarian’ issues – so, ‘development’ NGOs – much of what they are looking at equally applies to other social activism, including human rights organizations. These examples are all from the UK, [...]
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‘Are you joking?’
Raghu Rai’s initial response when asked by Greenpeace to go back to the city of Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, India, and photograph the lives of those affected by the disastrous Union Carbide factory gas leak 18 years’ on is not entirely surprising. Social activism, despite the parallel challenge of Web 2.0 platforms, remains heavily dependent on the main stream corporate media as a communication tool. Where was the story? Had it not been covered numerous times before? Was this not like returning to Chernobyl to survey the human fallout? And just as importantly, had these people’s lives not been intruded upon and photographed enough already?
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