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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 [...]
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I came across Sophie Gerrard’s work a couple of weeks back when the BBC featured her latest piece on the Akhand Jyoti Eye hospital in Bihar. It is beautiful, positive and inspiring. It does not linger on the negative nor over dramatize the issue. Other work, like ‘The Right to Life’ on maternal health in [...]
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Trends come and go, no less so than in social activism circles. There are many organizations talking about people’s ‘agency’ and about using ‘participatory methodology’ (see the explosion in participatory photography as one example). Many initiatives have questionable motives or outcomes for the rights holders involved. However, one organization that walks the walk as well [...]
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The brilliant Video Volunteers getting well deserved publicity in an interview with the organisation’s founder, Jessica Mayberry. Check out Video Volunteers latest initiative, India Unheard, here.
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Not quite as good as I had hoped it would be but still worth watching. A little bit too long to be punchy and a little too short to do justice to the complexity of the issue. And despite Media Storms generous array of embeds I’ll be damned if I can get the bloody piece [...]
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Indian court convicts top Union Carbide (India) officials. Twenty five years + twenty thousands dead + 600,000 affected = 2 years in prison. Oh, and fined about $2,000 each. And the math? The sentence was so low due to the charge – ‘causing death by negligence’ – only carrying a maximum of 2 years Meanwhile, [...]
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I came across the work of James Morgan via the photographs he shot on child trafficking in Nepal and India. Going through his website I was further drawn to his work partly because of the focus on Asia, but also because of his emphasis on compassion and respect for those whose stories he told. Suitably [...]
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For those of you in and around Mumbai next Saturday check out the WAVE screenings from their pan India network of video bloggers. Videos to be screened will include; Weaving Dreams — Padma, a lady of the Bodo community in Assam, changes her community for the better when she started a weaving society, turning away [...]
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Human Rights Watch and Magnum combine to produce ‘In Silence‘, an insight into the death of Kiran Yadav after giving birth to her son in Uttar Pradesh. The project looks to highlight the high number of preventable deaths of women in child birth, particularly in India. The multimedia is nominated for an AOL Webby.
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