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The Durham Centre for Advanced Photographic studies, in collaboration with Autograph ABP, is organising a conference entitled ‘Humanising Photography’ between 25-27 September. It aims to explore ‘the relationship between photography, humanism, human rights and humanitarianism.’ Click here for details.
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The human rights violation of ‘disappearances’ has attracted a great deal of photographic interest and work. To mark the International Day of the Disappeared (30 August) here is a small selection of photographic work on the issue. Marcelo Brodsky’s ‘Buena Memoria‘ – on returning to Argentina Brodsky organised a 25th anniversary reunion of his class [...]
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Two interesting posts on NGO advocacy on the Aid Watch blog. Check out ‘How to Make an Advocacy Video about Africa’ for a sarcastic critique of NGO communications here. This is followed by more sarcassim on how the controversial MSF cinema ad complies with their piss-take here. The comments that follow are better than the [...]
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Fascinating and useful discussion on the duckrabbit blog on the controversial new MSF ad. Check it out here. MSF are looking for feedback on the ad, so if you have an opinion you can comment here or to Osocio where similar discussion is taking place and you can comment.
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CGAP, who produce research and policy on financial access for the world’s poor, has launched a photo contest focussing on how micro finance has touched people’s lives. Click here for details. Deadline 14 September.
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To mark the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child UNICEF has organised a video contest. Click here for more details. Deadline is 30 August.
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To mark International Day of the World’s Indigenous People (9 August) WITNESS has launched a page devoted to Indigenous Media.
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‘Proxy wars’, do diets work ? and the 2009 Ashes series OK, I am going to be a bit flippant and suggest first-up that the debate about whether participatory photography (PP) represents the greatest thing since sliced bread or is an ineffective use of resources that perpetuates neo-colonial attitudes in development is; 1) a stupid [...]
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An international conference looking at the ‘relationship between affect, emotion, and/or feeling and the photograph.’ The conference takes place at the University of Toronto and is sponsored by the Centre for the Study of the United States and the Toronto Photography Seminar. Panel topics include ‘Children and the Political Management of Affect’, ‘Marketing Emotions: Loss, [...]
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The Berkeley Human Rights Center recently organised a conference on human rights and new technology called ‘The Soul of the New Machine‘. Discussions included ‘Spotlighting Human Rights: Digital Photography and Video‘ Plus ‘Animating Human Rights: Games, Animations and Multi-media‘ They have also set up a social networking site on Ning for those who wish to [...]
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