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Back in May I interviewed James Morgan about his photographic work with NGOs. He mentioned then a project he was just about to start documenting the life of the Bajau Laut, semi-nomadic ocean dwellers who live in the Coral Triangle off the coast of Sulawesi, Indonesia. Well, now some of that project has been published. [...]
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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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“I want to go abroad to help”. How can I be a responsible tourist? Is it necessary to travel to the ‘South’ to have a positive impact? Who benefits from trips to developing countries? These are some of the questions that CanalSolidario.org, a Spanish portal about news, services and information on human rights, humanitarian issues [...]
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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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In a similar vein to the ‘Disposable People’ project comes ‘Access to Life‘. Once again we see Magnum Photos partnered with an NGO – this time The Global Fund – presenting the work of eight photographers. The subject is how anti-retroviral treatment transforms the lives of those with AIDS. The photographers document the lives of [...]
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The Third Frame: visual imagery and the representation of the majority world 10 March 2010, 10.30-17.00 Location: Main lecture theatre London College of Communication Elephant and Castle London SE1 6SB This one day conference at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, in collaboration with OPEN-i, POLIS at the LSE and One World Media, [...]
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I was at the British Embassy in Kathmandu a couple of weeks back to attend a gathering on enforced disappearances. The event marked the 6th anniversary of the killing a 15-year-old girl, Maina Sunuwar, in 2004 by the Nepal Army. The main draw was the première of a short film entitled, ‘Awaiting Justice‘ (presented as [...]
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Nice little animation from Oxfam (US) introducing their campaign ‘Right to Know, Right to Decide‘ looking at the lack of transparency in extractive industries.
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I’ll start by saying I didn’t really engage very much with the climate change meeting in Copenhagen. As such I am not sure how much it can be labelled as a failure? However, it hasn’t got much applause from the media and NGOs so I am going to work on the assumption that most people [...]
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