Awaiting Justice? Time to re-think the picturing of conflict survivors in Nepal

Posted on 27/02/2010 by buddhasbreakfast

I was at the British Embassy in Kathmandu a couple of weeks back to attend a gathering on enforced disappearances. The event marked the 6th anniversary of the killing a 15-year-old girl, Maina Sunuwar, in 2004 by the Nepal Army. The main draw was the première of a short film entitled, ‘Awaiting Justice‘ (presented as [...]

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Mexican lawyers use video cameras to free man

Posted on 03/11/2009 by buddhasbreakfast

In my experience lawyers are not usually that open to the impact visual media can have on improving human rights. Don’t get me wrong, some of my best friends and colleagues are lawyers and they know all the technical stuff that baffles my brain. However, unless I come to them with  some forensic photos they [...]

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Hope: Living & Loving with HIV in Jamaica

Posted on 24/09/2009 by buddhasbreakfast

This is a fantastic, touching, informative and humane multi-media website about living with HIV in Jamaica. It is produced by the Purlitzer Centre On Crisis Reporting and has picked up a couple of awards already. Focussing on a group of individuals living with HIV as well as those who work with them, the site contains [...]

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The Uses of Photography – Daniel Hernandez-Salazar

Posted on 01/09/2009 by buddhasbreakfast

An interesting post on the Politics, Theory & Photography blog that looks at how the photographic piece ‘Esclarecimiento‘ (‘Clarification’) by Guatemalan photographer Daniel Hernandez-Salazar has be used and appropriated in social activism.  From the polyptch’s use on the cover of the Catholic Church’s report for the recovery of historical memory (marking the violations of the [...]

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International Day of the Disappeared – photographing the issue

Posted on 30/08/2009 by buddhasbreakfast

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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Media Storm workshops in June

Posted on 06/05/2009 by buddhasbreakfast

Media Storm, home of cutting edge multi-media storytelling, will be holding two workshops in June. A tuition-free Advanced Multimedia Reporting Workshop, in Brooklyn, NY will be run from June 20-26, 2009. There are only 8 places available and is only open to those with previous experience. Application deadline Friday 15 May. The second is a [...]

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