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It doesn’t seem a year ago that Moving Walls 16 was with us (because it isn’t?). Anyway, whatever the timing of these things once again we are shown a variety of images, both old and new addressing issues close to the heart of OSI. This year two of the sets focus on Burma – a [...]
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For the first time, the London International Documentary Festival will include this year (26 April-8 May) documentary photography in its program. Together with two 5-day intensive Documentary Photography workshops organized in collaboration with Magnum Photos, the Festival is organizing two photography exhibitions and a talk on new approaches to humanitarian visual communication in association with [...]
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According to reports from the Drik photo agency, last Saturday a young man stormed into their gallery in Dhaka and made death threats against Shahidul Alam, creator of the controversial ‘Crossfire’ exhibition. The incident was reported to the local police. For a transcript of the conversation between the man making the threats and the gallery [...]
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I was originally going to write this post as a contribution to the protection, through public exposure, of Shahidul Alam from the predicted government backlash that his new exhibition, ‘Crossfire‘, will likely provoke. That all still stands. However, the fact is I love the approach Shahidul has taken with this piece of work and it [...]
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Between 21 January and 11 April Whitechapel Gallery in London is hosting the photographic exhibition ‘Where Three Dreams Cross‘. The exhibition present photographs documenting the three countries from 1860 to the present day, with 300 works by 70 photographers and artists.
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WITNESS remains one of the stand out organisations working with and empowering people to use video for social activism. It seems only yesterday, but is apparently two years, since they launched their excellent Hub. Here, WITNESS staff and interns nominate the videos from 2009 that made the most impact with them. Included are ‘Choose a [...]
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The new video orientated site, ‘Gabura‘ by Oxfam UK has received a lot of attention in the last week, a rightly so. Not only is it timely, as you might expect with a seasoned INGO with Copenhagen just round the corner, but it also ticks most of the right boxes where visual media for social [...]
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If the Chinese government spouts one line consistently it is that other states should not interfere in its internal affairs. However, this obviously is a case of ‘do as I say not as I do‘. For at least the second time this year the Chinese government has tried to stop the showing of visual art [...]
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My journey to the head office of Drik in Dhaka at times felt like a secular pilgrimage. In part this was due to the convoluted and protracted overland route I opted to take from Kathmandu using train, bus and ferry lasting three days. At one point resembling a rite of passage when as the sun set through the smog of the rural brick kilns a puncture brought us to a stand still an hour from our final destination.
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An interesting digest by Rahnuman Ahmed on Shahidul Alam’s blog including a seminar at the recent Chobi Mela (International Festival of Photography) in Bangladesh called ‘Engaging with photography from outside: An informal discussion between a geographer, an editor and a curator/funder of photography’. One of the panelists, David Campbell, a professor of cultural and political [...]
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