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As series of short ads by WildAid featuring Chinese sports stars campaigning against the harvesting of shark fins.
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Rather than climbing up stuff Qiu Bo went out and took some pics of the pollution caused by the textile industry in China (which probably includes the jeans your wearing).That’s for Greenpeace by the way.
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I suspect this has more PSP than PLA but check out the International Campaign for Tibet’s blog on how this Coke ad may be secretly subversive. Now did I ever tell you about my theory of how Disney’s ‘Lion King’ is Islamophobic…?
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What has now become known as the ‘rabbit’ cartoon started doing the rounds at the weekend and is now going viral internationally. It watches a bit like an episode of South Park directed by Tarantino. Depicting ordinary Chinese citizens as rabbits (we are about to enter the Year of the Rabbit) it shows them being [...]
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From what I can gather this is part of an EU-China government project looking at the impact of ‘village self governance‘ reforms in rural China (grass-roots democracy). Basically, they went to 10 villages and gave 100 people either a stills camera or video camera and asked them to record the politics of the village. Now [...]
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Kuang Biao’s cartoon made me smile. The caption translates as, ‘Take off your clothes. Now its your turn.’ This is making reference to the policy of citizens in China having to register using their real names, yet a total lack of transparency in government. The guy in the big coat with girls and cash stashed [...]
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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 [...]
Filed under: Photography | Tagged: Asia, Bangladesh, censorship, China, exhibition, photo agency | 4 Comments »
More from the excellent multi-media and documentary photography work of the Open Society Institute. Whether you are a fan of Soros or not, OSI has invested heavily in the production of high quality visual products that are integrated into social justice campaigns. The ‘Moving Walls 16‘ exhibition brings together work by six photographers. There is [...]
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Whilst on the visualisation theme here is one looking at progress in China over the last 60 years. Not convinced by the value of including mobile phone data considering they weren’t invented 60 yrs ago, but there you go.
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Human rights activists don’t use humour and cartoons half as much as they should. May be the seriousness of the subject matter makes the use of such tools seem inappropriate? What ever the reason these can be great ways to mock a regime’s acts of oppression. Enter ‘Green Dam Girl‘! This example focusses on the [...]
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