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In the previous post we showed a publicity campaign which manipulates pictures. In this one, we show a video which reinterpret a classic film. Oxfam America, for its campaign on land grabs, decided to copy and at the same time, to modify a famous scene in “Glengarry Glen Ross” (1992). Glengarry Glen Ross, adapted from [...]
Filed under: Art, Film, Video | Tagged: development, East Africa, land grabs, poverty | Leave a Comment »
Back in September I posted that the new MSF ‘Starved for Attention‘ series of videos made in collaboration with VII were well worth a view. However, I’m not so sure about the latest offering, ‘Kenya & Somalia: Why do we have to wait for a crisis?‘ We are subjected to a series of choppy edits [...]
Filed under: Multi-media | Tagged: Africa, East Africa, famine, Kenya, malnutrition, MSF, Somalia, VII | Leave a Comment »
When I first saw this set of photos by Stanley Greene for Noor I felt some affinity as they deal with the challenge of securing electricity in poor communities. At this time of year Nepal is in its darkest days (literally) of ‘load shedding’ – or more accurately – power cuts. The cuts last 14 [...]
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Interesting initiative by Jonathan Kalan – BoP (Base of the Economic Pyramid – which is basically those 4 billion people without access to financial services, living in informal settlements and paying high prices for basic commodities). Jonathan, rather than seeking out situations of poverty to document looks to ‘discover, document and share stories of remarkable [...]
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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 [...]
Filed under: Photography, Training | Tagged: Asia, Bangladesh, conference, East Africa, environment, exhibition, Madagascar, photo agency, photographers, South Asia | Leave a Comment »
