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I came across Sophie Gerrard’s work via a recent article on the BBC News website about an eye hospital in Bihar, India. I was impressed enough to have a dig around on her website and found another interesting project on maternal health. What struck me was the balance in her approach – not overly dramatic [...]
Filed under: Multi-media, Photography, Uncategorized | Tagged: Asia, children, health, India, maternal mortality, South Asia | Leave a Comment »
A video triptych (if such a thing can exist?) directed by by CJ Clarke (of ChangingIdeas) for School Home Support. Good use of multiple points of view to convey the world through different eyes. I really like this approach as it tackles the complexity of lives and competing realities. I’m not a fan however of [...]
Filed under: Video | Tagged: children, mental health | Leave a Comment »
Back in March 2010 I reported here about a participatory video initiative by Roving Eye Film and CWIN working with former child soldiers in Nepal. Well, its good to see that a trilogy of films have now been completed and premièred in Kathmandu. Check out this article in the Nepali Times for details or Roving [...]
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Well, it is fair to say that I haven’t been as active a blogger this year as last. Returning to full time work is the main reason. However, I have also been working on a photo book in my spare time. Although a rather modest project I am rather pleased with it. Basically, I went [...]
Filed under: Photography | Tagged: armed conflict, children, development, human rights, Nepal, South Asia | Leave a Comment »
There may not be any great photography galleries in Kathmandu, or Nepal for that matter, but every so often a set of images surfaces that take you by surprise. ‘Bahini: Life of my sisters’ is one such project. ‘Bahini’ – which means ‘little sister’ in Nepali, is a project shot by two Singaporean photographers, Edwin [...]
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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 »
It is rare to come across any detailed analysis of the use of images in social activism, let alone an organisation publishing its own internal research. So, this report by UNICEF – ‘Images of girls and girls’ education: Reviewing and Rethinking‘ makes interesting reading. Published in March 2009, it presents research conducted over six months [...]
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A week or so back I wrote on how there needs to be a re-think on the representation of conflict survivors in Nepal. So, it was with some interest that I came across this article in the Nepali Times on the ‘Through Our Eyes‘ project. A collaboration between CWIN-Nepal (working for children’s rights) and Roving [...]
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Short animation by director of ‘Waltz with Bashir’, Yoni Goodman, on continued Israeli control over the Gaza strip. more about “New Short Film from the Animation Dir…“, posted with vodpod
Filed under: Cartoons/Animation | Tagged: children, Israel/OPT, Middle East&North Africa | Leave a Comment »
