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Disasters generate a great deal of images. The earthquake in Haiti last January was no different. This project by AlertNet stands out as one of the better pieces. Why? It credits the audience with some intelligence by presenting a selection of diverse (12) stories in all their complexity. It does not preach, manipulate or push [...]
Filed under: Video | Tagged: Caribbean&Central America, Haiti | Leave a Comment »
The BBC News site showcases Wolfgang Tillmans’ photos of Haiti taken for Christian Aid. A serious case of ‘celeb’ photographer not delivery the goods? I seriously wonder what Christian Aid were thinking when they commissioned these photos? That just because Tillmans won the Turner Prize it would attract much needed attention to the continuing need [...]
Filed under: Photography | Tagged: Caribbean&Central America, Haiti | 2 Comments »
Ever since I came across the website ‘This is Kroo Bay’ last year wanted to learn more about how such a comprehensive and innovative approach came about. Well, thanks to Rachel Palmer, Photography & Film Manager at Save the Children UK I got what I wanted. ‘This is Kroo Bay’ needs to be seen – [...]
Filed under: Campaigning, Interview, Multi-media | Tagged: Africa, Caribbean&Central America, children, development, Haiti, Liberia, Sierra Leone, West Africa | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Filed under: Campaigning, Film | Tagged: Americas, Caribbean&Central America, fair trial, Mexico, research | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Filed under: Multi-media | Tagged: Americas, Caribbean&Central America, HIV/AIDs, Jamaica, music, photographers, poetry | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Filed under: Art, Campaigning | Tagged: Americas, armed conflict, Caribbean&Central America, disappearances, Guatemala, human rights, photographers | Leave a Comment »
